Liquor store POS comparison
mPower vs. Cheers POS
mPower and Cheers POS are both built for liquor retailers. That makes the next question more useful: which system handles the details of your store best?
Cheers describes a liquor-store system with inventory, purchase orders, customer loyalty, Shopify and QuickBooks Online connections, backed by U.S. support. Cheers POS overview.
mPower brings the register, purchasing, inventory, pricing, multi-store operations and reporting together with back-office AI. We have focused on beer, wine and spirits since 2009, serving stores across 46 states.
Start with purchasing and invoices
Cheers describes purchase orders that display related sales information and move into invoicing for reconciliation. Its reporting page lists item movement, inventory reports and register logs. Cheers purchasing · Cheers invoicing and reporting.
In mPower, Need To Order uses sales velocity to suggest replenishment, with quantities rounded to full cases. Invoice scanning reads distributor documents and matches the lines to your items. The buyer reviews the work inside the back office.
Give both vendors the same invoice. Include a size variation, a cost change and a partial delivery. Follow the work from the purchase order through receiving and invoice review.
Compare the decisions that matter to your store
Swipe across to compare the workflows.
| Your question | What mPower brings | What to test with both vendors |
|---|---|---|
| What should I buy? | Suggested ordering from actual movement | Why each quantity was suggested and how case packs affect it |
| What changed on this invoice? | Invoice reading and item matching | Product matches, costs and receiving differences |
| Is this price earning enough? | Margin visible before price-change approval | A cost increase, the new retail and the resulting margin |
| Can another store cover the shortage? | Transfers and cross-store operations | Shipping, receiving and location-level quantities |
| Can I work away from the back-office desk? | Cloud hosting for new stores; app or browser | The actual device and workflow your manager needs |
| Who helps after hours? | A beverage-focused U.S. team with evening and weekend on-call coverage | Contact method, escalation and callback expectations |
The right-hand column is a demonstration request, not a claim that either vendor lacks the feature.
Make AI concrete
Ask a question using your own item data. Then ask the rep to prepare a small purchase order or price change from the result. In mPower, AI helps with those back-office tasks and shelf tags as part of the platform.
Ask Cheers to show its current capabilities directly. A feature's absence from a public page does not establish that it is unavailable.
Compare the whole package
mPower offers three processor integrations and one price covering features other systems sell as add-ons. Get a complete written quote from both teams for your locations, registers, hardware, migration, integrations and support.
We believe mPower offers the most complete feature set built only for beverage retail. Bring the scenarios your current system makes difficult and put that claim to work.
See the work happen in mPower.
Bring your invoice, pricing example and ordering decision. We'll work through the details with you.
Comparison based on linked vendor pages reviewed September 22, 2026. Confirm current capabilities, prices and terms in each vendor's quote.