Wells & Tagging

How PourCost decides which target pour cost applies to a given bottle. The tier ladder does most of the work.

Updated May 6, 2026

You don't tag bottles as well or call manually. The default tier ladder reads bottle cost and assigns a target automatically. Setting up your wells is a separate, optional flow.

How tiering works by default

A spirit's tier is determined by what you paid for the bottle. A $22 bottle lands in Well Priced with a 10% target. A $35 bottle is Call Priced at 18%. Past $150, you're in Allocated at 30%.

PourCost surfaces the tier label on every spirit screen, so you can see at a glance which bracket a bottle falls into and what target it's being measured against.

Wells setup (optional)

The wells screen lets you flag specific bottles as "this is what we pour when no brand is called." It powers the recipe adoption flow: when a library cocktail says "vodka," your wells tell PourCost which bottle to plug in.

  1. Open Wells Setup from inventory.
  2. Pick the well bottle for each spirit category.
  3. Save. Recipe adoption now uses these as defaults.

Note

Beer and wine don't run through the tier ladder. They use their own bar-wide goals (typically 25 to 30%). Adjust those in Settings → Tiers.