8 Best Liquor Store POS Systems, Ranked (2025)

A point-of-sale (POS) system is one of the most important investments you’ll make as a liquor store owner. Choose the right one and you’ll be able to process orders, accept various payment types, track inventory, manage staff, and collect customer data—all within a single platform. 

But searching for the best POS system is more complex for liquor store owners than for other retailers. Perhaps you need a manager’s approval to sell expensive bottles of wine, or age verification tools to prevent cashiers from facilitating underage sales.

To help you on your search, we’ve rounded up eight of the best POS system providers. We’ll also share the features to look for so you can choose the right option for your liquor store.

Best liquor store POS systems

We’re firm believers that the best POS system is one that’s unified. When everything is built on one core infrastructure, you can scale up or down as you see fit, starting out with the core functionality and giving you the flexibility to grow, without the technical complexities that typically come with a scaling retail business across multiple store locations.

That’s why we believe that Shopify is the best POS system. It unifies data from all sales channels into a single platform, offers compatible hardware, and a growing library of app integrations to customize the system to your heart’s content. 

That said, we know it’s useful to compare your options. Let’s explore eight of the best POS systems for liquor stores and break down their features, pricing, and use cases.

1. Shopify POS
2. KORONA POS
3. Square POS
4. Lightspeed
5. mPower POS
6. Cheers POS
7. National Retail Solutions
8. Bottle POS

1. Shopify POS

Shopify POS is more than a POS solution—it’s a complete command center capable of handling every aspect of your liquor store. It unifies inventory, order, and customer data inside one business “brain.” One platform, one subscription, and one POS system to train your team on. 

Take VIN Chicago, for example. What started as a single wine store grew into a four-location business managing over 3,000 products across Chicago. "The biggest advantage of Shopify is that it's completely integrated," says Peter Schwarzbach, owner of VIN Chicago. "Whether someone buys in-store or online, the inventory is always accurate. That's crucial when you're dealing with thousands of different wines and spirits."

What’s especially great about Shopify POS is that it enables you to offer the omnichannel experiences that modern customers demand. For example, customers can view availability for their favorite wine at their nearby store, place their order online, and collect it the same day. Retailers get notified on the POS that the order needs to be fulfilled by the scheduled pickup time to avoid delays and keep customers happy. 

Best features include:

• Omnichannel sales integration: ecommerce, POS, social media, and marketplaces 
• Advanced inventory management tools 
• Unified customer profiles
• User-friendly interface that’s easy to learn
• Speedy checkout with native payment processing 
• Advanced reporting and analytics 
• Multi-location management
• Wide range of POS hardware, from barcode scanners to receipt printers
• Third-party app integrations, including age verification apps like Real ID, to prevent underage sales

Danish retailer Teselskabet is just one merchant already using Shopify POS to manage its liquor store operations. It needed an omnichannel inventory management system that could track product ingredients, create categories, and sync quantities across its online and offline sales channels—all of which Shopify could handle. The result? A 25% increase in sales post-migration. 

“Our online and in-person sales are now all unified with Shopify,” says owner Lars Hansen-Damm. “We have a variety of apps that all run seamlessly within Shopify, so we never need to jump from one program to another. This saves us a huge amount of time and allows me to feel in control of my own brand.”

Pricing: POS subscriptions start at $39 per month for unlimited logins and a full-featured online store. Payment processing fees start at 2.6% + 10¢ USD for in-person transactions and 2.9% + 30¢ USD for online orders. There are no additional hardware costs with Tap to Pay.

2. KORONA POS

KORONA POS offers an enterprise point-of-sale system that’s suited for liquor stores. It offers handheld devices to process transactions from anywhere on the shop floor, as well as online store and ecommerce integration to sell online.

Features include:

• Customer loyalty program
• Ecommerce integration
• Built-in age verification reminders
• Automatic inventory replenishment
• Support for multiple locations 

Pricing: The Core subscription starts at $59 per month, with additional functionality, including integrations and advanced inventory management, available at an extra cost. It doesn’t share payment processing fees publicly, though it does offer an online calculator to estimate costs.

3. Square POS

Square is a POS system designed for small to mid-sized retail stores, including those selling beer, wine, and spirits. Unlike most other providers, it doesn’t charge a flat monthly fee to use its point-of-sale software. Square makes its money through payment processing fees taken as a percentage of each in-store transaction. 

Features include:

• No monthly subscription 
• Android and iOS mobile app 
• Loyalty programs and gift cards
• Native payment processing
• In-store pickup 
• Range of hardware options 

Pricing: No monthly subscription, though some features (including loyalty and marketing) come at an extra cost. Payment processing fees start at 2.6% + 10¢ per transaction.

4. Lightspeed

Lightspeed is a cloud POS system that syncs your data to the cloud so it’s accessible anywhere. It helps wine and liquor store owners manage inventory, offer discounts, and process a range of retail payment methods with its POS software.

Features include:

• Age verification prompts at checkout
• Integrated payment processing 
• Customizable reporting dashboards
• Native inventory counting
• Shopify integration available 

Pricing: The Basic plan starts at $89 per month and includes one retail POS register. It estimates that merchants in the U.S. who process between $5,000 and $34,999 in monthly transactions will pay approximately $200 per month in payment processing fees.

💡Learn: How Mister Zimi Outgrew Lightspeed and Unified its Sales Channels with Shopify POS

5. mPower POS

mPower is a POS system specifically built for stores that sell beer, wine, and liquor. It stores all of your POS data inside the system and helps retailers create detailed reports. mPower also integrates with third-party tools to track customer information, offer rewards, and manage your accounts. 

Features include:

• Suggested ordering
• QuickBooks integration
• Multi-store location management
• Customizable price lists, including case breaks and wholesale
• Data visualization tools for sales reporting

Pricing: Monthly subscriptions start at $120 per month, with a $1,000 upfront fee for the POS hardware. Each additional register is $120 per month and $250 upfront. 

6. Cheers POS

Cheers’ liquor store POS system offers both hardware and software for a full-stack setup. Its cloud-based software lets you turn your existing hardware into a POS device, and accepts a wide range of payment options, including mobile wallets, cash, checks, and contactless payments. 

Features include:

• Gift cards 
• Customer loyalty programs 
• Purchase order automation 
• Wholesale order management 
• U.S.-based customer support 

Pricing: Plans start at $79 per month per register. Hardware comes at an additional cost. Payment processing fees vary depending on the processor used.

7. National Retail Solutions 

National Retail Solutions (NRS) is a POS system built for small businesses. Alongside its POS software, the vendor offers a range of hardware to build your own custom setup, including touch screen displays, receipt printers, self-serve kiosks, and barcode scanners.

Features include:

• Wide range of compatible hardware
• Digital cash register
• Discounts and promotions
• Detailed store performance reports
• Vendor management tools 

Pricing: NRS offers hardware plans to get small liquor stores up and running. Prices for its basic setup start at $599. You’ll need a software subscription on top—these start at $19.95 per month. Extra functionality, such as loyalty points and ecommerce integration, comes at an additional cost. 

8. Bottle POS

Bottle’s POS system is purpose built for liquor store owners. It can automatically rank your bestselling products, centralize product data into a single database, and offer dual pricing options to incentivize specific payment methods (e.g., cash). The POS system also features an offline mode, allowing your store to continue operating during an internet outage.

Features include:

• Offline mode 
• Age verification tools 
• Auto-ranking inventory reports
• Customer reward program
• Centralized product database

Pricing: Bottle doesn’t share pricing details on its website without completing a form. However, Capterra reports that subscriptions start at $49 per month.

How to choose a liquor store POS system

There’s a lot that goes into your decision to choose a POS system for your liquor store. Some vendors offer simple, out-of-the-box solutions that include necessary features, while others provide access to everything, which can lead to overwhelming complexity.

Here’s a cheatsheet on what to look for when shortlisting POS vendors:

• Sales channels: A retail store isn’t the only place to sell liquor to customers. Ecommerce opens up a whole new opportunity to target people outside of your local area. Check that your POS system can unify product, order, and customer data between these online and offline sales channels. 
• Payment methods: Cash is no longer king in the retail industry. Give your customers flexibility to pay with debit or credit card, mobile wallets, loyalty points, or gift cards. You can even give shoppers the option to spread out larger purchases with Shop Pay Installments inside Shopify POS. 
• Inventory management: There are a plethora of reasons why stock might become unsellable. Perhaps you dropped a case of wine, or the liqueur has passed its sell-by date. The best POS systems can help you track sellable inventory, update quantities when they’re sold (either in-store or online), and raise purchase orders when they dip below safety stock levels. 
• Customer profiles: Let retail associates personalize the shopping experience by referencing data from a customer’s unique profile. Shopify creates these profiles automatically whenever someone shares their email address or phone number with your liquor store. 
• Hardware: Most vendors charge additional fees for hardware, including barcode scanners, receipt printers, and card machines. If you’re on a budget or want to condense your tech stack, Shopify lets you turn your smartphone into a mobile POS and card reader with Shopify Payments’ Tap to Pay functionality.
• POS integrations: Any third-party integrations should work with your existing sales channels. Ensure that apps—whether for age verification or loyalty programs—function seamlessly both online and offline, providing customers with a consistently personalized experience.
• Staff management: Can your shortlisted POS systems support user profiles with permission-based access? Require manager approval for specific transactions? Schedule staff rotas without requiring another app? 
• Pricing: POS system costs can quickly rack up, especially if the vendor charges extra for hardware, implementation, or customization. Ask for a full pricing breakdown before you commit to any system, including payment processing fees if offered natively. 

Get started with Shopify POS for your liquor store

As tempting as it might be to go for the cheapest option when you’re just starting out, most retailers quickly learn that starter systems don’t have the advanced features you need—and then you find yourself in the same position again: restarting the search and switching POS vendors.

We’re biased, but we believe that Shopify POS is the best POS system for growing retailers. It has all of the core functionality you need to sell anywhere, anytime. When you’re ready to upgrade, add extra features with integrated apps, or open your next store, you can do it all within the POS system your retail team already knows and loves.