Smart Liquor Shop
Management
Complete inventory, sales, purchase & excise compliance system with an AI billing assistant — built specifically for Indian liquor retailers. Maharashtra & Assam ready. All states supported.
Everything You Need
Every module purpose-built for liquor shops — from excise compliance and tax calculation to AI-powered billing and barcode scanning.
AI Billing Assistant
Voice & text-powered AI that adds items to your bill, answers stock queries, generates sales summaries, and speeds up checkout — no typing needed.
Smart Inventory
Real-time stock tracking across bottles and cases. EAN-13 barcode scanning with USB scanner & camera support. Low-stock alerts and batch tracking.
Advanced POS
Lightning-fast billing with live barcode scanning, Scan-to-Link AI recommendation, cash/card/UPI settlement, and party-wise retail & wholesale billing.
Purchase Management
PDF invoice import, supplier ledger, auto stock update on purchase entry. Cess, discount & case-level pricing with full purchase history.
Accounts & Ledger
Cash book, party-wise ledger, expenses, receipts & payments. Complete debtor/creditor management with day-close and settlement reporting.
Excise Reports
Item-wise, brand-wise, size-wise & category-wise drill-down reports. Inward/outward registers per government formats for hassle-free compliance.
Sales & Settlement Reports
Daily, weekly, and monthly sales analytics. Settlement reports broken down by payment mode — cash, card, UPI — with printable formats.
Tax & Levy Engine
State-specific tax rules built-in — ADV Levy, VAT, TCS, cess, and surcharges auto-calculated per item. Maharashtra & Assam pre-loaded; any state addable.
Role-Based Access
Admin and staff roles with granular access control. Admins manage users, roles, shop settings, and audit logs securely.
Multi-State Support
28+ Indian states supported with state-specific licensing models — licensed retail, govt wholesale, prohibition states, and open market.
Multi-Payment & UPI
Accept cash, card, UPI, and credit — all tracked per transaction. Split payments, party advances, and outstanding balance management.
Print & Export
Print bills, purchase orders, stock reports, and excise registers in one click. Export to PDF with shop letterhead and GST details.
A Glimpse Inside
Every screen is crafted for speed — from quick POS billing to detailed settlement reports.
Fast billing with barcode scanning & UPI/cash support
Full catalog management with MRP, HSN & stock units
Live stock levels across all product variants
Daily tally of cash, card and UPI transactions
Developed using technology from
Built for Every Indian State
Choose a stateto see how liquor is sold and taxed there — and exactly how LiKAR's tax engine handles it. Maharashtra & Assam are pre-loaded; every other state is a price-list import away.
Maharashtra
Ready NowComplete product catalog, MRP prices & excise categories pre-loaded. Start billing instantly.
Excise Duty + VAT (up to 40%) + Additional Fee, per case.
Inward/outward registers auto-generated in Maharashtra government format.
Landed cost per case computed from cost + every state levy + TCS — always audit-accurate.
How Maharashtra Liquor is Taxed
Maharashtra is fully pre-loaded. Excise Duty + VAT (up to 40%) + Additional Fee, per case.
Maharashtra (MH)
Purchase Price / Case = Cost + Excise + VAT + Fee + CESS
Grand Total = Σ (Purchase Price × Cases) + TCS 2%
Effective tax burden in Maharashtra: ~45% of MRP.
Browse price lists for all Indian states · Tax models are loaded from each state's official excise schedule.
The Most Advanced
POS for Liquor Retail
LiKAR's Point of Sale is built ground-up for the unique demands of liquor retail — multi-SKU barcodes, weight-based pricing, party billing, and state-specific tax calculation all happen in real time, at the counter.
Scan-to-Link Recommendation
When a barcode is scanned that isn't in the catalog, LiKAR doesn't fail — it recommends. Our proprietary prefix k-NN engine uses the GS1 company-prefix embedded in every EAN-13 barcode to infer the manufacturer and brand, then surfaces the top matching products from your catalog for one-tap confirmation.
Training-free · No GS1 API fees · Self-bootstrapping corpus that improves with every confirmed link
- USB scanner & camera barcode scanning — works on any device
- Cash, card, UPI & credit — all payment modes in one bill
- Retail and wholesale billing with party-wise pricing
- Auto tax calculation: ADV levy, VAT, TCS, cess — per state
- Print thermal bills or share digital receipts instantly
LiKAR AI Assistant
Online · Ready
Your Shop's Intelligent
Business Assistant
LiKAR's AI Assistant is always on — answer natural language questions about your sales, inventory, and accounts without opening a single report. Just ask, and get precise answers drawn from your live data.
Instant Sales Reports
Ask for daily, weekly, or monthly sales totals, payment breakdowns, and top-selling brands — in plain English.
Live Stock Queries
Know exactly what's on shelf. Ask "how many bottles of Royal Stag 750ml?" or "which items are below reorder level?"
Billing at Speed
Add items to an active bill by voice or text. The assistant resolves product names, sizes, and quantities in real time.
Accounts & Party Ledger
Check outstanding dues, party-wise balances, and cash position without navigating menus.
One plan. Everything included.
No tiers, no add-ons, no per-feature upsells — every shop gets the full LiKAR system, set up for you by our team.
Per shop · all features · white-glove setup included
WhatsApp 87775 04946 · Call 91016 03908
Included
Our team sets up everything — database to system — then payment is taken and your activation key is shared. A recorded, transparent process.
From the Blog
Guides, compliance tips, and industry insights for Indian liquor shop owners.
How to Get an Alcohol Retail License in India: Step-by-Step Guide (2026)
Alcohol is a State subject in India, so the retail licence process differs in every state — but the core steps are the same. A practical, end-to-end guide to the licence types, eligibility, documents, fees, premises rules and the application-to-renewal journey for opening a wine / liquor shop.
Assam Liquor Prices Set to Rise from July 1, 2026 — New Excise Levy Explained (অসমত মদৰ দাম বৃদ্ধি)
The Assam Excise (Amendment) Rules, 2026 (Gazette, 12 June 2026) revise the ad-valorem levy on liquor with effect from 1 July 2026 — pushing up the landed cost of most brands, sharply for premium ones. অসমত ১ জুলাই, ২০২৬ৰ পৰা মদৰ দাম বাঢ়িব। Here is what changed, why, and who pays more.
১ জুলাইৰ পৰা অসমত মদৰ দাম বাঢ়িব — নতুন আবকাৰী লেভীৰ সম্পূৰ্ণ তথ্য (২০২৬)
অসম আবকাৰী (সংশোধন) নিয়ম, ২০২৬ (গেজেট, ১২ জুন ২০২৬) অনুসৰি ১ জুলাই, ২০২৬ৰ পৰা মদৰ ওপৰত মূল্যানুপাতিক (এড-ভেলোৰেম) লেভী সংশোধন কৰা হৈছে। ইয়াৰ ফলত বেছিভাগ ব্ৰেণ্ডৰ দাম বাঢ়িব, বিশেষকৈ দামী ব্ৰেণ্ডৰ। কি সলনি হ’ল, কিয় হ’ল আৰু কোনে অধিক দাম দিব — সকলো ইয়াত।
LiKAR vs Marg ERP vs Vyapar: Which Liquor Shop Software Fits an Indian Wine Shop?
Marg ERP and Vyapar are two of India’s most widely used billing platforms, and both are pressed into service for wine shops. Here is an honest, feature-by-feature comparison with LiKAR — on liquor-native excise, data ownership, modes and price.
Connected Liquor Commerce: How a Distributor–Retailer Network Keeps Stock in Sync
A distributor and the retailers it supplies usually run on separate books, re-keying every order by phone or WhatsApp. Here is how a connected distributor–retailer network works — retailers raise orders, the distributor fulfils them, and stock updates on both sides from one linked transaction.
The Indian Liquor Business Explained: How It Works in Every State
Alcohol in India is a State subject — so the trade looks like 36 different businesses stitched together. An end-to-end guide to the chain, from manufacturing and wholesale to retail, pricing, prohibition and why every state is different.
Inside LiKAR: Distributed Database Design & Cold Storage Architecture
How LiKAR isolates every shop in its own database, keeps a lean master control plane, and tiers ever-growing sales data into cold storage so the live database never bloats.
LiKAR vs BottleShop: Comparing India’s AI-Powered Liquor Shop Software
BottleShop and LiKAR are both Indian, AI-era systems for running liquor stores — but they take different paths on data ownership, state coverage, barcode intelligence and tax handling. A balanced, feature-by-feature comparison.
LiKAR vs VasyERP: A Purpose-Built Liquor ERP vs a General Retail ERP
VasyERP markets itself hard as “India’s No.1 liquor store software,” but it is a broad, multi-vertical retail ERP that also does liquor. LiKAR does one thing — Indian liquor retail. An honest, feature-by-feature comparison.
दारू दुकान का सॉफ्टवेयर कैसे खरीदें — पूरी गाइड (2026)
शराब की दुकान (वाइन शॉप) के लिए सॉफ्टवेयर खरीदते समय किन बातों का ध्यान रखें — एक्साइज़ कम्प्लायंस, बिलिंग स्पीड, बारकोड, रिपोर्ट, और कीमत। और क्यों LiKAR भारतीय दारू दुकानों के लिए सबसे सही विकल्प है।
How Liquor Taxation Works in India: Excise, VAT, TCS & Cess Explained
Liquor is one of the most heavily and unusually taxed goods in India — outside GST, controlled state by state. Here is how excise duty, ADV levy, VAT, TCS and cess stack up, and how the MRP is built.
Research & Publications
The technology inside LiKAR is backed by original research. We publish our methods so the industry can build on them.
Scan-to-Link: Inferring the Product Behind an Unknown Bottle Barcode with Prefix k-NN
A lightweight, training-free recommender that turns any EAN-13 liquor barcode into a ranked product shortlist using GS1 company-prefix structure. Achieves 91.4% manufacturer accuracy and 82.7% brand top-1 accuracy with zero API cost. Built into LiKAR's point-of-sale and self-improves with every confirmed scan.
More research from GoWave Automation Lab coming soon — excise anomaly detection, demand forecasting for Indian liquor retail, and multi-state compliance automation.
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