COFFEE SHOPS
The drink was made. The sale was not.
Café shrinkage is rarely cash taken from a drawer. It is a drink produced and handed over without a transaction — which means your inventory moves, your sales do not, and the variance surfaces weeks later as unexplained COGS.
RISK PROFILE
Where a coffee shop actually loses money
⊘ PRODUCE-THEN-RING
The drink is made before payment. A barista who never rings it up leaves a perfect gap between inventory and sales.
⊘ FRIENDS AND FAMILY
Comped drinks for people the staff know are the most common café loss, and almost never recorded as discounts.
⊘ TAKEAWAY BLIND SPOT
Takeaway orders leave immediately. There is no dwell time and no receipt on a table to reconcile against.
⊘ MILK AND SYRUP VARIANCE
Consumables get blamed for calibration and spillage when the real cause is unrung volume.
WHAT ARGUS FLAGS HERE
The events worth reviewing
Argus timestamp-matches each of these to its exact frames of footage, so a shift becomes a handful of clips instead of eight hours of scrubbing.
- →drinks handed over with no corresponding sale
- →voids executed after the customer leaves
- →discounts applied with no customer present
- →drawer opened between transactions
- →refunds processed during quiet hours
RECOMMENDED STARTING POINT
CLASSIC fits most coffee shops
CLASSIC
₱4,000/mo
1 camera / branch.
List price. Partner and annual-prepay discounts apply.
One camera covering the till and handover point catches the produce-then-ring gap. That is where the money goes.
FAQ
Coffee shop questions
Will this tell me which barista?
Yes — clips are timestamp-matched to the POS transaction, which carries the cashier ID. You see the person and the event together.
We already do inventory counts. Why add this?
A count tells you something is missing. It cannot tell you when, how, or who. Argus gives you the thirty seconds of footage behind the variance.
ALSO SERVING
Find out what your coffee shop is losing.
Tell us about your setup — branches, cameras, POS — and we’ll come back with a recommendation within one business day.