POS built for Colorado convenience, grocery and liquor stores

Start at the 2.9% state rate, then add whatever the address carries. Local tax is a local option rather than a state mandate, so roughly 200 local jurisdictions are collected by the DOR through its Sales & Use Tax System while roughly 70 home rule municipalities set their own tax base, license separately and must be filed with directly. Special districts add further layers in the Denver metro, including RTD and SCFD, plus various health and cultural service districts. Combined rates reach roughly 11.2% at the high end, with Colorado Springs about 8.20% and Denver about 9.15%. Storeveu inherits the Colorado state rate across every store you run and takes a per-store override for the local layer, which matters because a store in a home rule city files two or more returns, one to the DOR and one to each city, on different bases and different forms.

Unprepared food for home consumption is exempt from the state rate under C.R.S. 39-26-707. Taxable at the full 2.9% are candy, soft drinks and carbonated water, dietary supplements, prepared and hot food, and unsealed vending-machine beverages. Candy follows the flour rule, so a bar containing flour rings as exempt food while one without it rings as taxable candy, which is why two items sitting side by side on the same shelf behave differently. Local jurisdictions can decline the food exemption, so groceries the state exempts may still be taxed locally and you cannot run one statewide grocery rule. Storeveu handles this with per-department tax rules, so a hot case sandwich, a Hershey bar and a loaf of bread all ring correctly on the same receipt.

Two statewide fees. The carryout bag fee under HB21-1162 is 10 cents per recycled paper carryout bag, or higher where the municipality or county has adopted a higher amount, and single-use plastic carryout bags have been banned outright since 1 January 2024. You keep 40% of the fee and remit 60% quarterly to your municipality or county, with nothing owed in a quarter where collections total under $20, and the fee does not apply to a customer who shows evidence of participation in a federal or state food assistance program, so that waiver is per transaction rather than a per-store setting. Small stores operating solely in Colorado with three or fewer locations, and not part of a franchise or corporation with locations outside Colorado, sit outside the plastic bag prohibition. The second is the retail delivery fee, a flat per-order state fee on any order delivered by motor vehicle to a Colorado address containing at least one taxable item, set at $0.31 for July 2026 through June 2027, shown as a separate line and reported on form DR 1786, with nothing owed by a retailer at or under $500,000 in prior calendar year Colorado retail sales.

No. Distilled spirits are confined to licensed Retail Liquor Stores, and a convenience store or supermarket cannot sell them at all. What you can hold is the Fermented Malt Beverage and Wine Retailer licence, which since 1 March 2023 covers sealed beer of any alcohol content plus vinous liquor including wine, sake and hard cider, and existing off-premises beer licensees converted automatically on that date. That licence carries a food test on application and again on renewal: at least 20% of gross annual revenue from food for consumption off the premises, with fuel, lottery and tobacco excluded from the food side, which is the usual trap for a fuel-heavy site. If you are looking at retail liquor store licences instead, C.R.S. 44-3-409 currently caps a person at three, rising to a maximum of four on and after 1 January 2027, and the additional licences carry a second test: they are open only to people licensed as of 1 January 2016 who are Colorado residents and whose additional premises meet the distance requirements.