Visual merchandising is one of the most underutilized sales tools in liquor retail. The way you display products in your store directly influences what customers notice, what they pick up, and ultimately what they buy. Great displays can move slow inventory, spotlight new arrivals, and increase your average transaction value — without a single dollar … Read more
Three Components of an Efficient Liquor POS System Running a liquor store has a lot of requirements. Main requirements include keeping track of inventory, ordering and receiving product, viewing sales reports, and checking out customers. We’ve written many blogs on the various things a liquor store software should have, so we wanted to create one … Read more
Liquor Store Holiday Promotion Ideas Consumers purchase all types of products during the holidays. Therefore, holidays are the perfect opportunity to offer a special promotion. Below are a few of the most common holidays that people celebrate. They are in order of the year, starting with Valentine’s Day. New Years is included in the Holiday … Read more
January is a quieter month for customer traffic, but one of the busiest behind-the-scenes months for liquor store owners. Physical inventory counts, tax reporting, and end-of-year financial reconciliation all land at once. If your liquor store POS system isn’t making these tasks easier, it’s making them harder — and costing you time you can’t afford … Read more
Ordering and receiving inventory is one of the most time-consuming and error-prone tasks in any liquor store. Done poorly, it leads to inaccurate stock counts, incorrect costs in the system, and purchasing decisions based on bad data. Done well, it’s the engine that keeps your store stocked, profitable, and running smoothly. Here’s a look at … Read more
What is the Difference Between the UPC Code and SKU Number? When running a retail business and needing to manage thousands of UPC codes you rely on accurate inventory for purchase orders. Therefore, if you are not familiar with UPC codes, you would think they contain valuable information such as product type, color, and more. … Read more
Not every POS system is built for the liquor store business. Generic retail software handles basics, but beer, wine, and spirits retail has unique requirements — case pricing, age verification, compliance, and tight margin management. Here are the 10 features you should require before signing any contract. 1. Age Verification at the Register Every alcohol … Read more
There are hundreds of point of sale systems on the market today. Most are designed for general retail — they work in a restaurant, boutique, or hardware store just as well as a liquor store. That’s a problem. Liquor retail has specific operational needs, compliance requirements, and product structures that generic systems simply weren’t built … Read more
The Do’s and Dont’s of Implementing Liquor Store Software Implementing a new liquor point of sale system can be an easy transition. To help with your evaluation up to going live, here are a few do’s and don’ts to keep in mind. DON’T download a free trial and test it out yourself. DO ask … Read more
Liquor Store POS Software Features mPower Beverage offers multiple tools to help our clients succeed. Not only are they standard in our software, we continually update the software based on our clients needs. Here are a few things that mPower offers. Mass Vendor Change Recently, Oklahoma had a few law changes and liquor stores had … Read more