English
Tapster Server Certification Tracker
For California clubs with an on-sale licence

Certified, or not on the bar.

Tapster tracks every server's and manager's Responsible Beverage Service certificate - the 60 days a new hire has, the 30-day exam window, the three-year renewal - and will not put anyone on a bar shift who may not serve on that date.

Opens in this browser with an invented club already in it. No account, no email address, nothing installed.

The problem

The first renewals are here.

Since 1 July 2022 every alcohol server and manager at a California on-sale venue holds an RBS certificate: 60 days from a new hire's first day, the exam within 30 days of training, renewed every three years. The first certificates are now running out.

60 days

from a new hire's first day to register, train and pass.

California ABC →
3 years

how long a certificate lasts; renew in its last 90 days.

California ABC →
30 days

to pass the exam after training, or train again.

California ABC →

Will not put anyone on the bar who may not serve.

Not a reminder. A bar shift refuses anyone who, on that date, has no certificate in force and is past 60 days from their first day - and checks a shift next month against next month, so a certificate running out blocks it now. A certificate is recorded only with an exam inside 30 days of the training. There is no override.

How it works

Hire, certify, schedule

Add the new hire

Their first day starts the 60 days.

Record the certificate

Training, exam and number. It runs three years.

Put them on the bar

Only on the dates they may serve.

What it will never do

It keeps the dates. Nothing more.

Tapster holds names, roles, dates and certificate numbers.

It does not train anyone.Your staff train with an ABC-approved provider.
It does not report to the ABC.The ABC keeps its own record of every certificate.
It is not a payroll or rota system.It is the check on who may pour.
It is not legal advice.It is the record and the gate.

Pricing

One plan

For one venue.

One venue

Venue

$19/mo

Every server, every shift.

  • 60-day new-hire clock
  • Three-year renewal watch
  • Shift gate, no override

Monthly, per venue. Your bank statement says Tapster Software. Your licence key is on your screen as soon as the payment confirms.

Pay by card through Square, on Square’s own checkout page — we never see or store your card number. Or pay with bitcoin through our own bitcoin server. Either way you come back here, type your business name, and your licence key is on the screen — no email, no waiting on us.

Questions

The ones we actually get asked

Does a certificate carry over from another job?

Yes. It belongs to the person. Record its dates and it counts here.

Who needs one?

Anyone who checks IDs, takes drink orders, pours or delivers drinks, and their managers.

Is this legal advice?

No. It is the record and the gate in front of the bar rota.

What do I actually get when I pay?

The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, on your screen as soon as the payment confirms: the checkout brings you back to our thank-you page, you type your business name and the key appears. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.

The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.

Open the demo before tonight's rota

One server is past 60 days with no certificate, one certificate has run out, and one is inside its renewal window.