Picture the bowls club at twenty to six on a Friday. Three deep at the bar, half of them members, cards out before they have finished saying schooner. Tabs open on the corner tables. Points ticking over quietly. Somebody wants their raffle voucher off their account. This is the venue Bepoz was drawn for, and it shows in every corner of the product. Sydney built, on their own numbers in more than three thousand venues across four countries, and still the licensed venue system other licensed venues get compared to.
The member price that is not the public price
A schooner has two prices in a club. Bepoz treats that as ordinary. Accounts and account groups, membership on the card, price levels for the member rate, condiment products for the modifiers, vouchers on the account, and a View Sales function that pulls up every transaction a member has ever put through the bar. Their own material describes segmenting on almost anything you can think of, then emailing or texting that segment straight out of the system, with birthday and win back messaging and results tracked back against spend.
Do not let anyone tell you we go deeper than that on membership. For a club running tiers, subsidised member rates, house accounts and a points scheme against thousands of cards, Bepoz has more years in that specific problem than we do, and it is the right answer for a lot of clubs.
The venue it was not drawn for
Now move the same system into a forty five seat bistro on a corner in Brunswick. Same owner, same bar, different job. The bistro takes bookings, and bookings are not something Bepoz sells. No diary, no online booking page, no deposit on a table of ten, no confirmation and reminder emails, no waitlist. That is not a flaw in Bepoz. Clubs mostly do not book tables. It does mean that a venue which does book tables buys a second product: a second signup, a second monthly bill, a second thing to train people on, and a second company to ring.
The same goes for rosters. Shifts, clock in and out, timesheets and leave are outside what Bepoz does, so the eleven casuals get managed somewhere else again. Allvio's one subscription also covers invoicing, payroll and BAS figures, and that is all we will say about the back office here.
Friday is fine. It is the Tuesday after that costs you
Prices are the easy case, and credit where it is due: Bepoz keeps the till and its own ordering page on one catalogue, so lifting the schooner and the member rate is one edit. Your website is not in that catalogue, because websites are not part of the product, so the specials page somebody built for you three years ago still says the old number.
Then the Melbourne Cup Monday hours. The till has to be told. The ordering page has to be told. The booking product you bought separately has to be told, and if you forget that one it cheerfully takes a table for a session you are not running. Google has to be told. Four visits, all of them small, none of them the same afternoon you meant to spend on the roster.
Then a member changes their mobile number at the bar. It is now right on their Bepoz account and wrong in the booking system, so the reminder for Saturday's table of eight goes to a phone they no longer own. Notes are the other soft spot. Bepoz's documented account fields do not include a place for preferences or an allergy, so a coeliac member is a note in a generic custom field if somebody set one up, or a thing the Thursday bar staff happen to know and the Sunday staff do not.
The quote, and a bill you can read tonight
Bepoz does not publish pricing, so working out what your club or your bistro would pay starts with booking a call. Before you open you are looking at hardware, an install and a configuration, then a booking subscription, then a roster subscription, and none of the three shrink in month twelve.
Ours sits on our own site in Australian dollars, so you can do the sum before you talk to anybody. Allvio Complete is $399 per month ex GST for one location and $299 per month for each extra location, with every app switched on and no per user charge. If you only want a couple of them, Build your own starts at $20 per month per app. The trial is 30 days and needs no card. Hardware is bought outright at $1,499 ex GST for the single station, $1,869 for the retail station and $2,499 for the restaurant station.
Bepoz | Allvio | |
|---|---|---|
What you are actually buying | A licensed venue till with deep membership, accounts, loyalty, its own ordering page and email and text marketing | One Australian subscription carrying the till, ordering, the booking diary, campaigns, rostering and timesheets |
Getting it running | One serious setup for the till and membership, then a separate setup for a diary and another for rosters | One setup, one login, one product for staff to learn |
Changing a price or a menu item | One edit for the public price and the member rate, on the till and their ordering page. Your website is not part of it | One edit, and it reaches the till, the ordering page, the website and set menus in the diary |
Changing your trading hours | Told to the till, then to the separate booking product, then to your website, each on its own | Changed once, and what guests can book changes with it |
Keeping a customer's details right | A strong member account, but the diary you bought elsewhere holds its own copy, and preferences or allergies need a custom field | One record with visits, spend, allergies, preferences and occasions, used by the bar, the diary and marketing |
What you pay before your first sale | Hardware and setup by quote, plus a booking subscription and a roster subscription before you serve anyone | Hardware outright from $1,499 ex GST, then one subscription, after 30 days free with no card |
Working out what it will cost you | Pricing is not published, so your own numbers start with a sales call | Published in Australian dollars: $399 per month ex GST for one location, $299 for each extra one |
When it breaks mid service | Bepoz for the bar, the booking vendor for the diary, the roster vendor for the shifts | One company and one number for all of it |
Best fit | Clubs, pubs and bars with member cards, house accounts, tiered pricing and a serious loyalty scheme | A restaurant, bistro, cafe or small pub that takes bookings, rosters casuals and wants one bill |
The wake in the function room
A member rings on Wednesday to book the back room for forty on Sunday, for his father. He pays two hundred dollars down over the phone. That deposit is recorded in whatever diary you bought, which is the only place it exists. On Sunday afternoon somebody behind the bar closes the tab and charges the whole amount, because the till has never heard of the deposit. Now, at the end of a wake, a grieving man is being told about a refund that will take three business days. Nobody meant it. It happened because two systems each knew half of him.
If your venue is the club, buy the club's system
Where members, cards, house accounts and tiered pricing are the centre of your trade, Bepoz has earned its reputation and there is a fair argument it should keep your bar. Where the same venue also takes bookings, rosters a team and wants to know the guest as well as the member, look at what the second and third products cost you, in monthly bills and in Tuesday afternoons, before the quote arrives.
This comparison reflects each product's general positioning as published by each vendor in August 2026. Features and pricing change: always check directly with each vendor before deciding.