At LiquorBee, we’ve spent years building tools to help liquor retailers make smarter purchasing decisions. From our Dynamic Reorder Points based on sales deficits to our 80/20 Reporting, each tool was designed to help you better understand what your store needs and when to reorder. Now, we’ve taken those concepts, combined them, and weighted them into one tool: AI Optimizer. AI Optimizer brings together your store’s sales history, inventory shortages, essential products, and

Inventory comes in. Inventory goes out. Customers get charged. Customers make payments. Refunds happen. Returns happen. Orders get changed. Employees make mistakes. Systems make mistakes. At the end of the day, everything has to balance. And when it doesn't, you need to know. That sounds obvious. In hindsight, it's something we probably should have focused on much earlier at LiquorBee. We've spent years building tools to automate liquor retail: purchasing, receiving, inventor

Running a liquor store means your technology needs to keep up with your business—not slow it down. That’s why we’ve rolled out several new Liquor Bee POS updates focused on making day-to-day operations easier. Our latest releases include the new Liquor Bee Updater, along with two-way integrations with Bottlecapps and Liquor Max that bring online orders directly into your Liquor Bee POS. Here’s what’s new. Keep Your POS Current with Liquor Bee Updater Keeping your POS on the l

A delivery arrives. Cases are stacked by the door. Customers are waiting at the register. And somewhere in that stack of paperwork is an invoice that still needs to become accurate inventory in your POS. For many liquor stores, that still means manually entering products, quantities, case costs, discounts, and other information line by line. Liquor Bee gives you a better way. Our preferred method is simple: automate as much of the process as possible. If invoice or order info

Welcome to the third edition of the Liquor Bee Monthly Market Pulse, our monthly look at product trends and sales insights from across the Liquor Bee platform. With July, August, and September reports now available, some patterns are beginning to emerge. Familiar products continue leading unit sales, several newer releases keep appearing near the top, and repeat slow movers offer a starting point for reviewing inventory. September’s strongest theme is consistency. The same co

Restaurants, bars, country clubs, retailers, and other permitted businesses can now place orders directly with their liquor store through LiquorBee. LiquorBee is excited to announce the launch of Wholesale Manager, a new feature designed to transform the way liquor stores manage orders from restaurants, bars, country clubs, retailers, and other permitted businesses. For the first time, businesses can place orders directly into a liquor store running LiquorBee POS — without ca

We’re going down a different dirt road this week. A business can grow like a weed or grow like an oak tree. Both can get big quickly, but only one is built to still be standing years from now. Normally, we use these posts to talk about liquor retail, technology, inventory, automation, or something new we're building at Liquor Bee. This week, we wanted to talk about something bigger: how we believe a business should be built and scaled the right way. We're still learning. We'r

At Liquor Bee, we believe great inventory management starts with knowing what matters most. That’s why we’re introducing our new 80/20 Report, built around a simple but powerful idea: The Pareto Principle. What Is the Pareto Principle? The Pareto Principle, commonly called the 80/20 Rule, is the idea that roughly 80% of outcomes come from 20% of causes. Businesses have applied this concept in countless ways. One of the most common examples is: 20% of your customers may genera

Liquor Bee Monthly Market Pulse Every month, Liquor Bee analyzes sales activity across our platform to identify what’s trending, what’s consistently performing, and which products may deserve a second look. Whether you’re deciding what to reorder, looking for the next breakout product, or evaluating inventory that may be tying up shelf space, our Monthly Market Pulse gives you a look at what’s happening across the Liquor Bee network. This month, we’re starting to see somethin

If you've ever walked into your neighborhood liquor store, you've experienced something big-box retailers can't replicate. You know the owner by name. They remember your favorite bourbon. They sponsor local events, support charities, and keep money circulating in the community. These businesses are the heartbeat of Main Street. And according to Faire's 2026 Independent Retail Report, independent retailers aren't just surviving—they're outperforming many of their larger compet

For more than 20 years, LiquorPOS was one of the most recognized names in liquor retail point-of-sale. Thousands of liquor stores built their businesses around it. Many are still using it today. Now, with LiquorPOS reaching the end of its lifecycle, thousands of liquor retailers are evaluating alternative software solutions. How we got here The story of LiquorPOS isn't unique. Like many successful vertical software companies, it followed a familiar path. 2014 – LiquorPOS was

The Inventory Habit Every Liquor Store Should Adopt One of the best inventory habits we've seen from successful liquor stores is simple: Count the products you just received before you receive the purchase order into inventory. It may seem like an extra step, but it pays off all year long. Why It Works Most stores wait until their annual inventory to discover problems like: Missing bottles Receiving mistakes Shrink Data entry errors Inventory that slowly drifted out of sync B

The Red Flags We're Seeing Across Liquor Stores One of the biggest advantages of the Liquor Bee network is that we get to see trends happening across hundreds of liquor stores. Sometimes those trends involve new products, changing buying habits, or inventory patterns. Unfortunately, sometimes they involve fraud. Over the past several weeks, we've seen an increase in attempted credit card fraud and chargebacks that follow almost the exact same playbook. While every situation i

Liquor Bee Monthly Market Pulse Every month, Liquor Bee analyzes sales activity across our platform to identify what's trending, what's consistently performing, and which products may deserve a second look. Whether you're deciding what to reorder, looking for the next breakout product, or evaluating inventory that's tying up shelf space, our Monthly Market Pulse is designed to give you insights from across the Liquor Bee network. 🚀 Top 10 New Products (Last 4 Weeks) These pr

Most POS Systems Import Invoices. Liquor Bee Automates the Entire Workflow. If your point-of-sale system simply imports invoices, you're only scratching the surface of what modern fintech integrations can do. Fintech's PaymentSource Pro has transformed how alcohol retailers receive distributor invoices by electronically collecting, standardizing, and delivering invoice data directly into back-office systems. Instead of manually keying invoices, retailers receive clean, digita

Closing the Books Shouldn't Mean Staying Up Late Every month ends the same way. Your accountant needs numbers. Your bookkeeper needs inventory. You want to know whether the business actually made money. Yet for many liquor stores, month-end turns into several hours of exporting spreadsheets, reconciling inventory, checking values, and trying to make sure everything ties together before the books can be closed. There is a better way. At Liquor Bee, we believe your POS should a

Why Liquor Store Owners Should Run a Shelf Review Report One of the most expensive problems in a liquor store is inventory that sits on the shelf but does not sell. At first glance, dead stock may not feel urgent. The bottles are already paid for. They are sitting on the shelf. They are not causing an obvious daily problem. But slow-moving inventory quietly ties up cash, takes up valuable shelf space, and prevents the store from reinvesting in products customers actually want

How a Loyalty Program Can Increase Average Ticket Size in Your Liquor Store Most liquor store owners focus heavily on attracting new customers. They invest in advertising, social media, signage, and promotions hoping to bring more people through the door. While acquiring new customers is important, many store owners overlook one of the easiest ways to grow revenue: increasing the amount existing customers spend each time they visit. A well-designed loyalty program can help ac

The Values That Guide Every Decision at Liquor Bee If you've ever sat through a corporate meeting, you've probably heard a list of values hanging on a wall somewhere. "Integrity." "Excellence." "Teamwork." They sound nice. They're easy to agree with. But too often, they become words that people forget about five minutes after reading them. At Liquor Bee, our core values are different. Not because the words themselves are revolutionary, but because we actually live by them. In

Most liquor stores don't need another employee. For decades, private retail liquor stores have faced an uphill battle. Large chains and big-box retailers had advantages that seemed impossible to overcome. They had corporate offices, analysts, inventory managers, purchasing departments, and access to technology that most single-store owners could never justify purchasing. Meanwhile, the typical mom-and-pop liquor store owner was wearing every hat in the business. They were the