Guests don't install anything. They scan the QR code shown on the cabinet's tablet, or the matching code on the printed stand card that ships with every cabinet. The QR is permanent and unique to your bar — same code, every event, forever. A web menu opens on their phone, branded for the host and populated live from the cabinet.

They see only what Barly can pour right now, inside the time window you set for the event. They tap a cocktail, add their name, and the order joins the queue. When you start their pour, their phone gets a quiet almost ready notification.

The cocktail library has 160+ recipes and grows steadily. Scrolling isn't enough. Guests can run a short filter wizard — skill level, alcohol strength, base spirit, sweetness, time of day, and specific include/exclude rules for mixers (e.g., "must have orange juice") and garnishes — and the menu narrows itself to a small set of perfect picks for that person, that moment.

Returning guests recognize each other across events. Past orders are saved on their phone — one tap to reorder a drink they had at last month's party. After every drink, a quick star rating and an optional comment. The host sees the feedback. The guest sees the cocktail rise back up their personal favorites list next time.

Orders auto-queue on the cabinet's tablet. You don't need to approve each one, and you don't need to stay near the bar — your phone gets a push notification when a new order arrives. Walk over when you want to. Tap a ticket and Barly walks you through it: pick up the bottle it tells you to, put the glass on the integrated scale, watch the ring around the scale go from amber to green as you reach the target weight. ±1g resolution. Move to the next ingredient. Repeat.

When the drink is ready, the guest's phone pings. You hand it off and you're back in the conversation. For larger events, the optional Stand Alone Kit adds satellite pour stations that share the same queue and inventory.

Before the night begins, you open the Event Planner. Name the event. Set the open and close times — say, 7 PM to 11 PM. Pick the cocktails you want available — or hand the work to Barly's AI suggestion. Tell it the guest skill level, the strength range you're after, the vibe, and it picks a balanced menu from what's already in your cabinet. Override anything you want before saving.

The moment you choose your menu, Barly checks the cabinet's live inventory and produces a shopping list of exactly what's missing — bottle by bottle, garnish by garnish. No more standing in the liquor aisle counting on your fingers. Print it, send it to a partner, or order through your grocery app.

Hosting a bigger party where you'll work from a side table? Barly also gives you the full ingredient list to lay out on a helper bar. And for the cabinet itself, the planner shows you visually how to arrange the bottles — a top-down view of all 37 front-row spots with each cocktail's ingredients placed within easy reach for the order they'll be poured. No fumbling for the Cointreau when the Margaritas start hitting.

Outside the event window, the QR resolves to a polite the bar is closed. Each event is its own entity — its own queue, its own inventory snapshot, its own history. After the last guest leaves, the data stays.

When the event closes, Barly produces a one-screen summary. How many drinks went out. What hour was busiest. Which cocktail was the night's hit. Which one nobody touched. What ran out and when. Average rating across all pours. Pull the data into the next event's planner with one tap.

Drill into any cocktail to see who ordered it and what they said. Drill into any guest to see what they drank and what they rated it. Over many events, patterns emerge — your friend group has its repeat favorites, certain ingredients always run dry first, the dinner-party menu wants different items than the cocktail-party menu. Barly tells you which is which.

The guest menu only shows cocktails that are actually pourable right now. That requires Barly to know three things at all times: which bottles are in the cabinet, how much is left in each one, and what's already in the queue waiting to be poured.

When you load a bottle, the integrated camera reads the label. When you pour, the scale measures every gram off the bottle. Pending orders in the queue are subtracted before the menu is shown. The result: if three Margaritas are queued and there isn't enough Cointreau left for a fourth, the Margarita silently disappears from the guest menu before anyone else can order one. No "sorry, we're out" moments.

Stock keeps changing — distilleries release new bottlings, importers stock unfamiliar labels, gifts arrive from friends. When you load a bottle Barly hasn't seen before, the system reads its barcode and a photo of the label, then queries a network of external services and uses AI to identify it. Known bottles are recognized in under 2 seconds. New ones — bottles Barly has never seen anywhere in its history — are typically identified, classified, and linked to recipes in under 15 seconds. The new bottle joins your cabinet and the global database, ready to be used the next time a guest scans the QR. There is no "this bottle isn't supported" wall.

Barly ships with 160+ curated cocktail recipes, with new ones added regularly. The library covers not just spirits but mixers (juice, syrups, sodas) and garnishes — all first-class items the cabinet tracks and recognizes. Every recipe is linked to the live database, so when a new bottle, mixer, or garnish enters your cabinet, Barly automatically figures out which cocktails it just made possible.

A single Barly cabinet handles a dinner party of 8 without breaking stride. For 50, 80, or 100 guests, you add Stand Alone Kits — compact pour stations with the same scale and the same screen, sharing the same live inventory and the same order queue with the main cabinet.

Two helpers, three helpers, four — each one pulls the next ticket from the queue on whichever station they're standing at. When a bottle empties on the main cabinet, every station's menu updates in real time. When a Stand Alone Kit pours, the main cabinet sees it. One event, one menu, one queue, multiple hands.

The default Barly is built from MOSO® Bamboo Solid Panels — 20 mm thick — Dutch-engineered solid bamboo, the same material used in high-end commercial interiors. Solid high-density bamboo is harder than oak, denser than walnut, and visually unmistakable. Choose from three factory finishes, all in 20 mm: High Density Natural (pale, gold-toned), High Density Carmel (warm caramel-brown), and High Density Tiger (multi-tone striated). Spec page ↗

For a darker, traditional luxury look, Barly is also offered in birch plywood with American walnut veneer — a furniture-grade core with an A-grade walnut face. Same construction, same hardware, same hosting platform. Different room.

Doors swing on SOSS® 204 invisible hinges — concealed when closed, full 180° travel when open. The cabinet rolls on four 200 kg-rated heavy-duty casters with brakes. Each door holds 8 bottles across three shelves plus a top glassware rack. Drawers are full-extension and LED-lit from within.

Set up a personal access code for every household member. The cabinet supports unlimited users. When a user enters their code, the active user switches — and from that point on, every door open, every pour, every order is logged against them. Family-friendly, party-friendly, and audit-friendly all at once.

Don't want a code on weeknights? Use the access scheduler. Require codes only at certain hours, or switch the cabinet between "open household" and "code-locked" modes by day of week. Lock down weekends, open up holidays, anything between.

Forgot to leave wine breathing for guests arriving early? Open the cabinet from your phone, anywhere on Earth that has internet. And this isn't just about the lock — everything you can do from the cabinet's tablet, you can do from your phone's web interface. Tablet-and-web parity is a product principle. Recipe management, pour queue, inventory, analytics, lock control: all of it, from either surface.

Barly's doors aren't solid panels — they're slatted bamboo, with deliberate gaps between every plank. When the LEDs come up inside, the light pours through the slats and out into the room. With the doors closed, Barly is a glowing wood sculpture that warms a corner of the living room. With the doors open, it's a bar that lights its own contents. Either way, the cabinet earns its place after the bottles go away.

Walk over to grab a bottle, doors swing open, lights come up automatically. Door state is read in real time. Close the doors and the lighting shifts to ambient mode — slow, warm, quiet enough to leave on through dinner without distraction.

Set a daily schedule: warm amber from 7 PM to 11 PM, off the rest of the time. Pick from preset scenes or set a custom color and pattern from the app or web. With 170 individually-addressable WS2815 LEDs across shelves, drawers, and the scale ring, the cabinet runs full RGB animations without any one zone interfering with another.

Everything you can do on the cabinet's tablet, you can do from the web on your phone. Manage recipes, run pours, watch the order queue, pull analytics, control the lights, unlock the doors. The Galaxy Tab A9+ ships included on top of the cabinet — but you're never tied to it.

The 160+ recipes that ship with Barly are a starting point. Build your own from scratch — pick the glass, the spirits, the mixers, the garnishes, the method. The system auto-generates a cocktail image for every custom recipe based on glass shape, ingredient color, and garnish, so your menu always looks finished. No bare placeholder cards.

Want a drier Negroni than the canonical recipe? Tap Customize. Barly duplicates the master recipe, attaches your name to the variant, and from then on serves your version when guests order it under your event. The original stays untouched. Build a personal cocktail catalog, event by event, that follows you through every party.

When a new bottle is recognized via the AI lookup, the system pulls the bottle image automatically as part of the recognition step. You don't take photos. You don't fill in forms. You put the bottle in the cabinet.