Every price below is taken directly from the vendor’s own published pricing page, checked on 29 July 2026. Where a vendor doesn’t publish a price, that’s stated plainly rather than guessed at.
Pub and bar stock software pricing, sourced 29 July 2026
| Tool | Entry price | Top published tier | Free trial | Priced per |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| StockTap | £19/month (founding rate) | £19/month | 14 days | Single site |
| BarBrain | from EUR52/month | from EUR99/month (Enterprise) | 30 days | Users & product count |
| Growyze | £79/month | £139/month (Premium) | 30 days, no card | Per venue |
| StockLens AI | £79/month | £499/month (Multi-Site) | 14 days | Venue & user count |
| MarketMan | $199/month | $249/month (Growth) | Not published; free setup offer live July 2026 | Per account, USD |
| BevSpot | Free tier, or $948/year (Starter) | Custom quote (Enterprise) | Usage-capped (not time-capped) | Per account, USD |
What actually drives the price difference
Two things account for almost the entire spread here: currency and venue count. BarBrain and MarketMan price in euros and dollars respectively, so a UK buyer is converting currency on top of whatever the headline number says. Growyze, StockLens AI and BarBrain’s higher tiers all price per venue or per user, which is the right model for a multi-site operator and the wrong one for a single pub paying a multi-site rate for one site’s worth of stock.
StockTap’s £19/month founding-member rate exists because it’s built and priced for exactly one job: a single UK tied pub. It’s not a discounted version of a multi-site tool — there’s no multi-site tier to discount from.
The one figure worth a health warning
BevSpot’s own pricing page lists a Pro tier at $249/year marked “Most Popular,” sitting below its Standard tier at $1,428/year. That’s what’s published, but it reads as an inconsistency on BevSpot’s side rather than a considered price point — worth confirming directly with BevSpot before treating it as the real cost of their most popular plan.
What the headline price doesn’t include
None of these figures are the whole story on their own, and it’s worth reading past the top-line number before deciding anything:
- Currency conversion. BarBrain (euros) and MarketMan (US dollars) both add exchange-rate exposure a UK-priced tool doesn’t. A euro or dollar price today isn’t the same pound figure next quarter.
- Per-venue and per-user scaling. Growyze, StockLens AI and BarBrain’s Growth/Enterprise tiers all charge more as you add sites or seats. For a single pub that never adds a second site, the entry tier is the real number — but it’s worth checking whether that entry tier actually covers what you need, since some (BarBrain’s Basic, capped at 90 products and 1 user) may not stretch to a full cellar and bar without an upgrade.
- Onboarding and setup. MarketMan was running a “free setup ($1,500 value)” offer in July 2026 — which only makes sense as an offer if setup is normally a paid, separate cost outside the monthly figure quoted above.
- What “free trial” actually means. BevSpot’s trial isn’t measured in days at all — it’s usage-capped (“3 inventories, 5 orders, 5 recipes left” on ours), which behaves very differently from a 14 or 30-day clock depending on how quickly you use it.
For context on where these tools compete for attention: Jelly, a UK hospitality content and software business, publishes its own stock control product at a flat £129 per location per month with no per-user fees — a genuinely different pricing shape again, and one more UK operators researching this space will run into.