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Guides, compliance deep-dives and engineering notes for Indian liquor shop owners — from the team at GoWave Automation Lab.
EngineeringJune 2026
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.
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ComparisonJune 2026
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.
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ComplianceJune 2026
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.
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