Liquor Store POS Systems
Run your business. Connect with customers. Sell anywhere. MBS LiquorPoint is a specialty liquor store POS system that is customizable to meet the needs of your business. It’s easy to manage sales, inventory, and operations for a single liquor store or multiple locations.
Running a liquor store can be a complex process with many important tasks to address – from inventory management to regulatory compliance to delivering exceptional customer service. With so many different items to manage, an effective POS system is critical to the success of your business. At Mariner Business Solutions, we provide industry-leading liquor store POS solutions to help you grow your business, increase your profitability and improve customer loyalty.
Mariner Business Solutions provides customized solutions to address the specific needs of your business, serving as your one-stop shop for all your liquor store POS system needs, including hardware, software and ongoing customer support. Our team understands the critical role our POS solutions play in your success, and we’re committed to providing reliable systems backed up with the exceptional service and support your team needs to thrive.
Important Functions Performed by Liquor Store POS Systems
Liquor store POS systems are an essential component to your ability to effectively manage your operations. They perform a variety of important functions that are critical to your success:
- Streamlined Sales and Checkout Process – Liquor store POS systems improve the speed and efficiency of your sales transactions, helping you avoid long checkout lines that can negatively impact your customer experience.
- Age Verification Compliance – It’s important to comply with age verification laws when selling alcohol and tobacco. The most advanced liquor store POS systems come equipped with integrated ID scanners and age verification features that ensure you never accidentally sell alcohol to underage customers. This helps you avoid costly fines and legal issues.
- Inventory Management – Tracking inventory levels manually is an extremely time-consuming process that creates numerous opportunities for errors. Liquor store POS systems provide real-time inventory tracking, low stock alerts and automated purchase orders to ensure you always maintain optimal stock levels.
- Sales and Customer Data Analysis – POS systems capture valuable sales data that allows you to analyze sales trends, identify top-selling products, track customer purchase history for marketing efforts, and make informed decisions that will help you boost revenue. You can often receive this analytics data in graphical form that makes it easier to understand.
- Employee Management – Liquor store POS systems allow you to assign employee roles and permissions, track labor costs and productivity, and monitor staff activity to reduce theft and human errors.
- Promotions and Loyalty Programs – You can use your POS system to easily set up promotions, discounts and customer loyalty programs that will incentivize repeat business and increase customer lifetime value.
Benefits of Using Mariner Business Solutions as Your Liquor Store POS System Provider
Mariner Business Solutions’ LiquorPoint system is one of the leading liquor store POS systems, and it offers a wide range of features that make it ideally suited for your business. These include:
- Multiple Location Data and Product Aggregation – You can manage several business locations with this POS system, even if you’re using different operating systems at each store. If you have multiple stores, instead of having to enter new products or customers into every store’s database, a centralized database can be maintained. With a central database, you can easily view comparisons of each store’s activity, sales, profits and COGS from one database. In addition, distribution of products can be easily facilitated to receive products in one location and then automatically transfer them out to the individual stores.
- Hot/Cold Analysis Report – LiquorPoint’s detailed reporting breaks down sales and beginning/ending inventory for the month by category/subcategory.
- Bottle and Case Identification and Tracking – This feature allows you to purchase items in one unit (i.e., case) and sell them in another (i.e., bottle), making it easy to track these products separately even though they were received as one item.
- Individual Package Barcode – You can attach a unique barcode to an individual selling unit to eliminate pricing errors at the point of sale registers.
- Multiple Barcodes – You have the ability to enter both your store’s barcode and the vendor’s barcode. This is especially helpful since many products have different UPC codes based on season and packaging.
- Age Verification – LiquorPoint makes it easy to perform customer age verification. You can use either a handheld scanner or a small ID reader which scans the front and back of a customer’s ID simultaneously. This age verification is seamlessly integrated with the LiquorPoint software. LiquorPoint validates the ID and automatically alerts your cashier if there are any problems.
- Customer Loyalty and Engagement Programs – You can track retail and wholesale customers, giving you the ability to seamlessly charge different prices for each customer type. You can set up A/R charge accounts for customers. You also have the ability to set up frequent shopper programs and offer gift cards, contract pricing, and other perks that will boost customer loyalty.
- eCommerce Website Integration – Upload inventory, customers and prices to your online store and download customer orders into LiquorPoint for seamless fulfillment.
- Tips Tracking – If you take tips or would like to in the future, LiquorPoint’s tips process allows you to easily track the amounts and the cashier/sales rep for each tip. Reporting by each cashier and to the accounting system is provided in the software.
Liquor Store POS Solutions We Offer
Additional Customizations Provided by Mariner Business Solutions
Mariner Business Solutions has created a variety of customizations which make our LiquorPoint POS system even more powerful. These customizations are tailored to the unique needs of liquor stores, ensuring you’re able to optimize the results you can achieve when using this system. Some of the most popular customizations with our clients include:
- RFID Tracking and Inventory Control
- Restock Report
- Dashboard Analytics
- Specific Buttons and/or Process for Handling Keg & Tap Pricing and Tracking, as Well as Lottery Ticket Handling at the Register
- Digital Shelf Tags
RFID Tracking and Inventory Control
You can add an RFID label to your items to make your inventory management even more accurate. At Mariner Business Solutions, we can customize your setup, allowing you to include the item’s RFID code, print labels and track inventory by selling with the RFID label. The Android unit easily records all RFID labels quickly and updates the file to the database in two simple steps. An RFID-enabled barcode printer will encode the RFID tag with the code associated with the item in LiquorPoint.
Restock Report
Mariner Business Solutions has added reports that will make it easier for your staff to restock products in the store. You can run these reports by time of day and type of product. In addition, these reports can be run in real-time during the day or on posted tickets from the previous day.
Dashboard Analytics
With our customizations, you’ll have access to an easy-to-use dashboard providing a graphical representation of your sales, tickets, time-of-day activity, COGS vs sales, and many other key success metrics. This app works with any platform and can be accessed through any web browser.
In addition, Mariner’s LiquorPoint provides more than 40 templated reports that provide current and historical information about your inventory. CounterPoint’s reporting functionality allows you to customize reports to reflect that exact data you want to analyze.
Keg & Tap Pricing and Tracking, and Lottery Ticket Handling
Our team can optimize your POS system so that it provides one-touch buttons to handle keg/tap/tub and time rentals, as well as selling and redeeming authorized state lottery tickets. As part of this process, you’ll be able to track equipment, product inventory and customer information.
Digital Shelf Tags
Our LiquorPoint POS systems integrate with Margin Mates digital shelf tags. Anytime you change the price of a product in CounterPoint, the new price will immediately be reflected on the shelf tag.
Inventory Management for Liquor Stores
Benefits of Our Liquor Store Inventory Management Software
Our inventory management software for liquor stores allows you to more effectively navigate this important aspect of your operations. You can use our liquor store inventory management software to greatly improve your inventory tracking and management in a variety of ways:
- Real-Time Inventory Tracking – You will have real-time visibility into stock levels across all your locations. As sales are made, the inventory is automatically deducted, ensuring you always have an accurate count of what’s on your shelves and in your storeroom at any given time.
- Low Stock Alerts – You can set up your POS system to send out automatic alerts when inventory for a particular product drops below a specified reorder level. This allows you to restock popular items before running out, preventing lost sales.
- Automated Purchase Orders – You can enter preset reorder levels and supplier information into your POS system so that it can automatically generate purchase orders for items that are running low. This streamlines your ordering process and ensures you always have the proper amount of inventory on hand.
- Inventory Counts and Adjustments – Our liquor store POS systems facilitate easier inventory counting with barcode scanning and mobile inventory management apps. These tools allow you to perform full or partial counts, make adjustments, and track inventory discrepancies.
- Sales Forecasting and Optimization – You can analyze historical sales data to forecast demand and suggest optimal inventory levels for different products. This helps reduce overstock.
- Centralized Vendor Management – All your vendor information, pricing and order history can be stored in one centralized database within your POS, simplifying inventory replenishment across multiple suppliers.
Enhanced Credit Card Processing Capabilities
Our POS systems can also improve credit card processing for liquor stores in a variety of ways:
- Integrated Payment Processing – Our POS systems come with integrated payment processing capabilities that allow for seamless and secure credit/debit card transactions. The POS interfaces directly with the payment device, eliminating the need for stand-alone card terminals.
- EMV Chip Card Compliance – Our POS systems are EMV (Europay, Mastercard, Visa) compliant, enabling them to securely process chip-based credit and debit card payments. This protects your liquor store from liability for fraudulent transactions.
- Multiple Payment Options – In addition to credit/debit cards, our liquor store POS systems can process other payment methods such as mobile wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay) and gift cards.
- Tokenization and Encryption – To safeguard customer payment data, our liquor store POS systems use tokenization (replacing sensitive card data with tokens) and point-to-point encryption to secure transactions and reduce PCI compliance scope.
- Centralized Transaction Reporting – All credit card sale data is captured within your POS system, allowing you to view reports on transactions, voids and refunds across all locations from a centralized dashboard.
Credit Card Processing for Liquor Stores
Mariner Business Solutions Can Elevate the Success of Your Liquor Store
Mariner Business Solutions provides the customized liquor store POS solutions you need to grow your business. We’ve created our exclusive Personal Advantage Plus™ Approach to give you control of your business. This unique approach to POS solutions elevates your success in a variety of ways:
- Extensive collaboration with your team to understand your unique goals
- Customized recommendations ensuring you receive the right solution(s) for your specific business
- Custom configuration and integrations that align with your operations and workflow
- True human support to help you get the most out of your new system
- On-site response when issues arise
- Uptime reliability
- Detailed and personalized reporting
- Ongoing competitive innovations to address your evolving needs over time
Request a demo to find out how we can help you grow your business.