However they want to pay
Split the tender, refund a single line, take EBT, round the cash. The card terminal talks to the register instead of just sitting next to it, so nobody retypes a total.
Point of sale · Liquor & convenience
Your shop doesn't stop. Neither should the register.
Queex runs the counter of a real liquor store — the scanning and the tendering, the age checks, the drawer, the lottery case, and the quiet hours when it's just you and the till. It keeps its own copy of everything, so a dropped line is a nuisance, not a closed shop.
Behind the counter
Built around the day you actually have.
A liquor store isn't a generic shop, and it shows the moment you try to run one on generic software. Half of what crosses your counter is age-restricted, deposit-bearing, taxed on its own terms — or isn't merchandise at all.
Checkout
Inventory
A catalogue that holds up
Cases linked to units, a cost from every vendor who sells it to you, counts that post as the truth, and invoices read straight from the PDF your distributor sends.
Cash
The drawer, counted honestly
Shift start and close, drops and loans, payouts, the safe. At the end of the night the number on the screen has to agree with the notes in your hand.
Lottery
Scratchers counted as stock
Packs, activations, the serial on the top ticket, returns netted out of shrink — followed the way the state actually settles with you.
Money services
The services people come in for
Check cashing, money orders and transfers, with the fees and the customer record kept straight — and a prompt when a threshold says you need one.
Channels
Delivery, without typing it twice
Delivery marketplaces can pull your live stock and channel prices, and the orders come back as sales against the right shop. Nobody rekeys anything.
Compliance
Nobody should have to keep all this in their head.
California asks a lot of a small shop, and most software quietly leaves it to whoever happens to be on the register. We'd rather it were handled for them.
CRVContainer deposits by beverage size and type, applied from the product — not bolted onto a department.
AgeVerification driven by the item itself, so a bottle keeps its gate however it is filed.
HoursAlcohol availability follows state law, including on delivery menus where the window differs from the shop's.
TobaccoDirectory checks, pack and carton links, and scan-data reporting to the manufacturers who require it.
TaxRates scoped by department and category, verified against the state's own rate service by address.
EBTEligibility decided per item, with ineligible goods separated at tender rather than at the end.
How it's built
Made to keep going on a bad day.
Every register keeps its own complete copy and syncs when it can. A cut line slows your reporting down. It doesn't stop a sale, a refund, or the drawer count at the end of the night.
Offline
Keep serving, connection or not
Your catalogue, your prices and the open shift all live on the machine. When the line comes back it catches up by itself — there's nothing for you to reconcile.
Multi-store
One shop or several
Add a second register, or a second store, and each keeps its own drawers, staff and numbers — while you still see the whole thing in one place.
Updates
No one has to drive out
Registers update themselves from a signed release. Your reports and settings open in a browser, so you can check the day from wherever you are.
Contact
queexsoft@gmail.com
Tell us about your shop.
Queex is built by Queex Inc against a shop that's open right now, which is why it bothers with the awkward parts. If you're running one, we'd like to hear how it goes — and we'll tell you straight if we're not the right fit.