Comparison
TapListLive vs Untappd for Business
Untappd for Business suits a taproom that wants its beer list found by app users, while TapListLive suits one that wants every screen and menu correct the second a keg changes.
Comparison
TapListLive vs DigitalPour: Menu Speed or Keg Inventory
DigitalPour suits an operator who wants keg inventory and menus in one connected system, while TapListLive suits one who wants the tap list right everywhere and nothing more to maintain.
The short answer
If you buy kegs from twenty different breweries and your ordering depends on knowing exactly what sits in the cooler, an inventory first platform like DigitalPour is the right shape, and a menu tool will never give you that ledger. If most of your handles come out of your own tanks, your keg records already exist because the TTB requires them, and your real daily failure is a menu still listing a beer that blew an hour ago, TapListLive covers that with far less to keep current.
TapListLive and DigitalPour side by side
| What you are deciding | TapListLive | DigitalPour |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | Publish one accurate tap list to screens, website and QR menus at once | Track beverage inventory and drive menus from what the system says you hold |
| Scope | Menu publishing only, with your keg record staying where you keep it now | Inventory, keg tracking and menus treated as one connected system |
| Best fit | Brewery taprooms and brewpubs pouring house beer with a few guest handles | Beverage led venues with heavy rotation from many breweries and importers |
| Daily upkeep | One action when a keg goes on, one when it blows, nothing else | Receiving, keg locations and depletion have to stay current to stay accurate |
| Who runs it | The bartender or cellar person at the cooler door, working from a phone | A manager who owns the inventory record and keeps it honest week to week |
| Setup shape | Enter your handles, point screens at a URL, print QR cards, done in a day | A fuller setup where the inventory structure comes before menus look right |
| What you give up | No keg counts, no depletion reporting, no help with purchasing decisions | More system than a house beer taproom with fourteen handles usually needs |
| Pricing shape | Flat monthly tiers, One Taproom $29, Brewpub $69, Multi Location $139 | Vendor pricing, ask them directly for current terms before you compare |
The right hand column says what kind of product DigitalPour is and who it is built around, not what it charges or ships this quarter. Any product moves on, so confirm the live details on their own pages first. TapListLive is published by MLJ, SASU and this page is written by Jimenez Julien.
Choose TapListLive when
- Your keg records already live in a cellar sheet you keep for TTB anyway.
- Most handles are house beer with two or three guest taps beside them.
- Nobody on staff wants to own a receiving and depletion record every week.
- Your one real complaint is menus lagging a keg change by an hour or more.
Choose DigitalPour when
- You buy from many breweries and need keg level counts to drive ordering.
- Cooler inventory value is a line you actually manage, not a rough guess.
- You have a manager who will keep receiving and depletion current weekly.
Inventory system or menu system
DigitalPour comes at the tap wall from the inventory side. The assumption is that a beverage operation wants to know what kegs it holds, what is pouring, and what the menus say, with all three linked to the same record. For a beer bar buying from thirty breweries and rotating handles weekly, that link is the whole point of the exercise.
TapListLive comes at it from the other end. It assumes your keg count already lives in a cellar sheet or your brewery production records, and that the daily problem is the gap between a keg changing and the menus catching up. It publishes what is pouring; it does not try to be your ledger.
What a brewery taproom already has
A brewery taproom is a different animal from a beer bar. Most of what is pouring came out of your own tanks, the volumes are already recorded because beer leaving the bonded area is a taxable removal, and guest taps are a handful of handles rather than the entire wall. Buying a full beverage inventory system to manage twelve house beers and two guest handles is more system than the room needs.
That math flips if you run several beer forward locations with kegs arriving from dozens of breweries. Then keg level tracking earns its keep every week, and menus drawn from that same record are worth the setup work it takes to get there.
Setup effort and who keeps it honest
Any system that tracks inventory needs somebody to keep it truthful. Receiving, keg locations, blowouts, comped pours and staff samples all have to be entered, or the counts drift and the menu drifts along with them. That is a real weekly job, and in a small taproom it lands on the person who least wants it.
A menu only tool makes a smaller promise and carries a smaller maintenance load. You tell it what went on tap and what came off, and everything downstream follows. If nobody in your building has time to keep an inventory record clean, the smaller promise is the one that survives contact with a busy Saturday.
Questions people ask before they choose
Do I still need keg inventory tracking if I use TapListLive?
You need to know what you have, but it does not have to live in the same tool as your menu. Most brewery taprooms already track kegs in a cellar sheet or in the production records behind their TTB reporting. TapListLive assumes that record exists and handles what the public sees.
Which fits a taproom pouring mostly house beer?
A menu focused tool usually fits better when the handles come from your own tanks. The receiving and variety problems that inventory platforms solve are much smaller when you brewed the beer yourself. Guest taps are a short list you can manage by hand.
What if we open a second location next year?
TapListLive has a Multi Location tier at $139 a month for that case, with each room keeping its own tap list and its own screens. If your growth plan is several beer bars with heavy rotating inventory, look hard at an inventory first platform before you commit.
Other comparisons on taplistlive.com
Comparison
TapListLive vs Arryved
Arryved suits a taproom replacing its point of sale and its whole service flow, while TapListLive suits one that likes its register and only wants the tap list to stop lying.
Watch one keg change before you pick
A head to head table is a reasonable way to narrow the field, but the real test is the sixty seconds after a keg blows on a Saturday. Book a short demo and we will swap a keg on a sample tap wall while you watch the bar screens, the website list and the QR menu move together. Bring whichever question this page left open.