Setting up a liquor store

Liquor and wine · checked 2026-10-24

This guide takes a liquor store from the first conversation to a live store. An iVendNext partner in your region usually runs these steps with you. A team with its own developers can run them itself. iVendNext gives the product, the apps and a guide at every step.

Check the fit

Put your own list of requirements against the apps in Liquor and wine on iVendNext. What the apps meet unchanged is ready. The rest is set-up or an extension.

Set up iVendNext

Set up stores, tills, prices and users as you would for any retailer. Then link your ERP: iVendNext connects to SAP Business One, SAP S/4HANA, Acumatica, NetSuite and Sage X3, and your partner connects any other ERP with the partner kit. For Acumatica and WooCommerce, see the Integration Core guide. WooCommerce links your web shop.

Make it a liquor store

Give each item its bottle and case units with their prices. Make a lot for each vintage you keep apart. Set your restricted item groups for spirits, wine, beer, tobacco and vapes.

Set up the hardware

Put scanners at each counter. Connect cash drawers, receipt printers and customer displays with Counter hardware, and add tablets or phones for a second counter. Try your own hardware with your partner before you go live.

Install the apps

Install the Age-restricted sale check, Expiry markdown and Coupon rules from the App library, and the loyalty app your stores use (iVendNext Loyalty or Customer-owned loyalty).

Load your data

Load items with their units and barcodes, vintages as lots, the age on each restricted item group, and markdown steps on your dated beer and cider.

Train your staff and go live

Go live store by store: cashiers and the age check, the stockroom and store managers.

Day to day

Your partner supports what it delivers. iVendNext supports the product. The daily work at the till is in iVendNext POS, starting with Starting your day.