POS built for Kentucky convenience, grocery and liquor stores

Kentucky charges a flat 6% and the Department of Revenue is explicit that no city or county may add a local sales tax on top. That makes rate configuration the same at every store in the state, with one exception: certain older fourth and fifth class cities may levy a restaurant tax of up to 3% on prepared food sales, and that add-on rides on top of the standard 6% where it applies. Storeveu sets the 6% rate once at the state level and layers the optional restaurant tax only for the stores that actually sit inside one of those cities.

Unprepared food is completely exempt under KRS 139.485, not merely taxed at a lower rate, but candy and soft drinks are pulled back out of that exemption with specific tests: candy loses its exemption unless it contains flour or needs refrigeration, and soft drinks lose theirs unless they contain milk or more than half fruit or vegetable juice by volume. Prepared food, meaning anything heated, combined from two or more ingredients, or served with a utensil, is taxed at the full 6% regardless. Storeveu applies those tests at the item level so a candy bar, a bottle of juice and a hot roller grill item all ring correctly on the same receipt.

Kentucky does not publish a fixed statewide retailer rate for the Kentucky Lottery Corporation. Your commission is whatever your retailer contract sets, so Storeveu holds your own contracted figures rather than assuming a published percentage. Lottery books are tracked through inventory, active, depleted and settled status, with an end-of-shift ticket scan working out how many tickets sold.

A convenience or grocery store loses eligibility for a spirits or wine licence once staple groceries or gasoline reach 10 percent or more of its monthly gross sales under KRS 243.230(5), so most c-stores are limited to a beer-only Non-Quota Retail Malt Beverage Package licence instead of the harder, population-capped licence a package liquor store holds. The purchase age is 21 for both alcohol and tobacco, though an employee as young as 18 may sell malt beverages with a supervisor of 20 or older present. Storeveu enforces sales only for the categories your licence actually covers and prompts for date of birth at the register.