Inventory Control and Point of Sale for Retail Liquor - Innovative Computer Solutions

Vision from ICS

Retail Liquor Inventory Control and Point of Sale

Vision is the industry standard for inventory control and point of sale in the retail beer, liquor, & wine store.


Vision has the tools to inform you, when you need to make business decisions in a competitive market. Keep just the inventory you need, know how much you already have, know exactly what your customers want, and know who to buy from to get the best deals.

Vision helps you to control how your business is run, not just your inventory. Control the access each of your employees is given and know when they make a mistake.

Purchase History

Maintaining a history of your inventory purchases is critical to proper cost analysis and retail price forecasting. And should you have purchasing problems with your vendor, you will have the Vision purchase history to help you resolve those types of inquiries.

FIFO Cost Tracking

Precise profit reporting depends on accurate recording of the cost of goods as a product is sold. And the only correct method to provide this level of accuracy is by using FIFO inventory valuation. Vision is the only system that delivers this level of detail and accuracy.

Multiple Discount Tiers

There are never too many ways that an item can be priced or discounted. Each product grouping may need it’s own unique way of handling a discount. Flexible discounting by customer or item are an integral part of the Vision system.

Separate Web Pricing

As your industry evolves, so does Vision. One of the newer features is the ability to have web-only pricing, along with your everyday in-store and customer order pricing. Web pricing provides you the flexibility to make your web store competitive in a new market.

Prediction Reports

Vision provides the most easy to use and yet sophisticated process for reporting inventory requirements. Should you own more than one store, Vision has a unique set of processes that can balance your inventory between locations before requiring you to purchase inventory from your vendor.

Sales Analysis

The bottom line. This is why you have your business. We all want to make profit. We also want to know if we are not. Vision provides a sales profit and sales history report that is easy to use and will give you detailed or summarized information to give you the good news, that you are, in fact, making money.

System Change Tracking

Virtually anything that happens in Vision is recorded and can be reported through secure management access. Should you suspect a manager making unauthorized changes or maybe you forgot that you made a change, this feature will be there to report anything, anywhere that changes in your system.

Cashier Transaction Analysis

After all, it is your money that the cashier is handling. You need to control the various forms of tender and uncover any problem areas, be they cashier errors or customer service related. Maybe the cashier gave the wrong change or rang up the wrong item. Easy to use, detailed reporting is an invaluable tool to resolving problems in this area.

Mix & Match Pricing

Yet another way to provide top-notch service to your customers. Mix items from the same family, or the same grouping and the system will calculate the correct retails, without selling below cost (where applicable).

Reporting in Cases or Bottles

Why have your employees convert units of inventory into case and bottles? Your software system should present your inventory in a manner that your employees can use, without having to be a math wizard and having to also know the number of units per case.

User-defined Queries

Should you want to write your own special report or extract to do a mass mailing or spreadsheet analysis, Vision provides you with access to the data and at the same time preventing you from changing critical data, that could affect your store operation.

Physical Inventory

Vision has a built-in set of processes to manage taking a physical inventory. Whether you use an inventory service or an in-store inventory scanner, this module will compare current inventory to counted inventory and report your stock value ups and downs.

Inventory Transfers

Have more than one store? Do you transfer inventory between your stores? Do this easily with Vision and maintain proper costs when any product is moved from one location to another.

Stock Breakage and Loss

Not all of your inventory is sold. Sometimes, a bottle is broken or maybe used for a tasting. These items still need to be reduced from your inventory and reported to you for accounting purposes.

Real-time Inventory Updating

There is no mystery here. When you sell the item, your store inventory is reduced. Without this feature, you would have to wait until the next day to analyze your inventory. Vision is real-time. No waiting.

Multi-level Product Categories

Your store has a myriad of products. Vision has the tools to classify those items into an easy to use and personalized grouping. Once grouped, reports begin to make sense and your work becomes easier.

Zero Product Movement

Simple. What items are not selling and why? Are they just not the right item for your store or is the item not displayed properly or at all? This report will help you find those problem areas.

Programmable Keys

Special circumstances require that the POS keyboard be configured for your special needs. Vision POS can be programmed to provide “velocity” keys for those special items.

Cashier Security

As an owner, you can rest easy that cashier actions will be tracked and reported. Cashiers are required to use a cashier code to access the POS and every sensitive function is able to be password protected.

Keystroke Journaling

Each and every key that the cashier uses is recorded for audit purposes. Should you need to dig into cashier problems or issues reported by a customer, the information is there for you, in an easy to use report.

Daily/Weekly Snapshots

Tell me how we did yesterday. This week. This month. Get it in Vision. This report will provide you with the level of detail you need to analyze your daily operation and help you to make immediate corrections, thus avoiding an end of month disaster.

Cash Analysis

Keep your cashiers in check by being able to track the various types of tender at the point of sale and comparing them to what the cashier puts in to the drawer. Mistakes do happen and you need to keep tabs on the cashier that may be hurting your bottom line.

High/Low Movement Items

Maintaining proper cash flow, having the right products to service your customers … all part of knowing how your existing inventory is selling. Being able to focus on the best and worst sellers is key to inventory management.

Store Price Change For Labels

Retail prices change. Shelf labels need to be reprinted. Do it all from the label printing process. When retail prices change as a result of a new purchase or an item’s price was changed independent of a purchase, the new label can be printed at any time. No need to print the new label at that moment.

Label Printing

Shelf labels, UPC labels, shelf talkers. All of these are possible with Vision. With multiple methods of generating the labels/talkers, you will be able to properly label your bottles, your shelves, or your case stacking.

Receipt Control and Definition

This section of Vision provides you with the ability to decide when a customer receipt is printed, how many are printed and what additional information is printed, beyond the standard, required information.

Stock Breakage and Loss

Not all of your inventory is sold. Sometimes, a bottle is broken or maybe used for a tasting. These items still need to be reduced from your inventory and reported to you for accounting purposes.

Stock Valuation

A very important piece of information is the value of your inventory. Ask your accountant. Either detailed or summarized stock value reports provide you with the necessary information to help you operate your business.

Hourly Sales

Employee scheduling. What is my customer count by hour, by day? These answers are provided by the hourly sales report.

Detailed Sales

Every sale that is processed through the POS or customer order processing is kept in a daily journal file, for easy recall and analysis.

Configureable Parameters

Each Vision system is customizable to suit your own specific needs, using our very in-depth set of parameter functions.

Tax Reports

Where would we be without taxes? Vision gives you the tax reports you need, based on the various tax jurisdictions you can have preset into the system.

Add That New Customer

With the proper scanner at the point of sale, you can add a new customer to your customer file simply by scanning their driver license. Enter the customer’s email address to keep the customer up on new products and offerings.

Cashier Security

As an owner, you can rest easy that cashier actions will be tracked and reported. Cashiers are required to use a cashier code to access the POS and every sensitive function is able to be password protected.

Line Busting

Using the latest generation of wireless devices, Vision allows your customer to capture the items they are purchasing as they walk the floor. When they are complete, they can quickly checkout at the point of sale without re-entering any of them.

Sort It Out

Vision allows you to create a screen display, then sort the various columns of data. Look at your information sorted in the order that makes sense to you. Then, you can take the data and use Word or Excel to further analyze your data.

Robust Register

Rest easy. Should your server or in-store network fail, you will be able to continue to service your customer. Robust Register gives you peace of mind, with no added work on your part. There is no need to sync the register(s) with the server on a daily basis. Peace of mind, at no additional cost and with no additional labor. Robust Register is truly a stress saver.

Touch Screen Support

Touch screens have been around the fast food industry for a number of years and are slowly making their way in to the retail liquor store environment. Vision supports touch screen and offers several sizes to suit your particular configuration and price point.

Card Interface

In our fast-paced society, customers have been conditioned to expect a smooth, efficient and swift “checkout” process. With V-Charge and Vision, you are able to offer your customer, be they in the store or online, the kind of service they expect. Fast response times. Quick receipt printing. Signature capture. All signs of a progressive retailer.

Futures/Allocated Products

Your most discerning customers want a wine that is slated for future bottling and importing. Vision has an extensive set of features that aid in accurate purchasing of the finished product, correct retailing of the futures, and efficient delivery for pre-orders.