Distillery POS Setup

Craft distilleries run tours, tastings, a cocktail bar and a bottle shop, with state rules on what can be sold on site. Square covers tours, tastings, bar service and retail; direct spirits shipping is restricted in many states and needs specialized processing.
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Payment solutions for distilleries & tasting rooms

How these solutions fit distilleries & tasting rooms

See what each option adds to the way your business takes and tracks payments.

Square Point of Sale

For distilleries & tasting rooms: Bring tasting-room sales, bottles and merchandise into a point-of-sale workflow, with reporting organized around tasting-room checks, bottle stock and club orders. Square describes Square Point of Sale as software that "helps you take payments and manage complex business operations with industry-specific feature sets for food and beverage, retail, beauty, services, and more." Square Point of Sale handles tastings and bottle sales in the tasting room. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it for distilleries.
  • Set up your item library, taxes and receipts
  • Enable and test Tap to Pay and offline mode on your devices
  • Pick a plan based on your volume and the features you actually use
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Square for Restaurants

For distilleries & tasting rooms: Organize tasting-room sales, bottles and merchandise with menu modifiers, kitchen routing and front-of-house checks in one restaurant workflow. Square describes its restaurant POS as "a business technology solution built for single- and multi-location full-service restaurants, quick-service restaurants, fast-casual restaurants, bars, breweries, and multi-concept restaurants." The cocktail bar runs tabs and table service on the same account. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it for distilleries.
  • Recommend the Square plan and device mix that fits your service style
  • Build menus, modifiers, taxes, service charges and tip settings before opening day
  • Configure floor plans, printer and KDS routing, and team permissions
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Square for Retail

For distilleries & tasting rooms: Connect bottles, cans and tasting-room merchandise to a retail catalog, stock tracking and customer purchase history. Square describes Square Retail POS as "the all-in-one system built to manage inventory, sales, and customer data." Bottles, merch and gift sets are tracked by SKU. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it for distilleries.
  • Import and clean up your catalog, including variants and barcodes
  • Set up vendors, reorder points and purchase orders
  • Connect in-store and online stock so you don't oversell
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Square Appointments

For distilleries & tasting rooms: Schedule tastings, tours and private-event consultations, collect appointment payments and keep staff calendars aligned. Square describes Square Appointments as booking software to "easily streamline and manage your appointments" and "keep everything synced in real time." Tours and tastings are booked online with reminders. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it for distilleries.
  • Build your bookable services, durations and staff calendars
  • Set deposit, prepayment and cancellation settings that match your policy
  • Embed booking on your website and social profiles
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Square Inventory

For distilleries & tasting rooms: Track bottles, cans and tasting-room merchandise with item-level stock records and replenishment workflows. Square describes inventory tracking as a way to "track stock, costs, and product availability." Stock counts keep limited batches accurate. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it for distilleries.
  • Decide which items to track by count and which to track by ingredient
  • Load unit costs and vendors, and set reorder points
  • Set up auto 86 so sold-out items disappear from every channel
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Square Gift Cards

For distilleries & tasting rooms: Offer gift cards redeemable toward tasting-room sales, bottles and merchandise and track purchased and redeemed balances. Square says sellers can "sell physical and eGift cards from your POS or online store." Tour gift cards are popular holiday gifts. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it for distilleries.
  • Set up eGift ordering on your site and social profiles
  • Plan holiday promotions (including bonus cards) and track liability
  • Train staff on selling, checking balances and redeeming
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E-commerce Payments

For distilleries & tasting rooms: Add online checkout for tasting-room sales, bottles and merchandise, with order references carried through payment and fulfillment. Roots connects online stores and ordering sites to card processing with tokenized cards on file, fraud screening and support for shipped and scheduled orders. Where state law permits shipping or local delivery, specialized online processing supports age-restricted orders.
  • Connect processing to your cart or custom site
  • Set fraud rules for your order profile and shipping regions
  • Test checkout, refunds and failed-payment flows
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Merchant Account

For distilleries & tasting rooms: Arrange a processing account for tasting-room sales, bottles and merchandise, with checkout methods matched to how customers pay. Roots sets up merchant accounts through its processing partners for businesses that need custom pricing or a setup outside a flat-rate platform. A dedicated merchant account can suit distilleries with custom pricing or underwriting needs.
  • Review your current statements and effective rate
  • Underwrite for your volume, ticket size and seasonality
  • Set up terminals or gateway and test transactions
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Distilleries & Tasting Rooms payment questions

Start with the workflows your business needs. Options on this page include Square POS Setup for Distilleries, Square for Restaurants for Distilleries, Square for Retail Setup for Distilleries. Roots helps compare the setup, software and processing requirements around how you operate.
Yes. Bring your current POS, checkout or billing tools and recent processing statements. We review ordering, counter or table service, kitchen routing and checkout, then plan the changes your distilleries & tasting rooms business needs.
Request a quote for your business. The review covers your payment mix, locations, software, hardware recommendations and implementation work. Consultations and payment reviews are free.
Bring recent payment statements, the systems you use and a record of how a customer places an order, receives a service or pays a bill. Tell us which distilleries & tasting rooms workflows need to improve so we can scope a practical setup.

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