POS built for Louisiana convenience, grocery and liquor stores

Louisiana adds a 5% state rate, then parishes, municipalities, school boards and special districts layer on their own tax, collected separately by the parish rather than the state. Local rates typically run 4% to 7%, so most stores land in a 9% to 10.5% combined range, and economic development districts can push that into the 12% to 13.5% range. Because state and local returns are filed on separate systems, an item can owe zero state tax and full local tax in the same transaction. Storeveu applies state-level rates across every store and lets each location override for its exact parish and municipal jurisdiction.

Groceries bought for home use are exempt from the state's 5% tax under the Louisiana constitution, but that exemption only binds the state itself, not parishes and cities. Many parishes choose to exempt groceries locally too, but it isn't guaranteed, so the same item can ring zero state tax and a nonzero local tax depending on address. A hot case, deli sandwich or roller grill item sits outside the exemption entirely and is taxed at the full state and local rate. Storeveu's per-department tax rules ring the exempt grocery and the taxable hot case correctly on the same receipt, with a per-store override for whichever parishes don't follow the state exemption.

The Louisiana Lottery pays a 5% selling commission, but the cashing side isn't a flat rate: it's a five-tier schedule running from 0.50% on tickets worth $1 to $25 up to 2.00% on tickets worth $201 to $600. Jackpot winners add a selling bonus on top, 1% of the prize for Lotto and Easy 5, or the greater of $40,000 or 1% of Louisiana's share of the prize pool for Powerball and Mega Millions. Treating cashing as a flat 2% overstates what a typical store actually earns, since most tickets cashed fall in the lower bands. Storeveu tracks lottery books through inventory, active, depleted and settled, and the end-of-shift ticket scan works out exactly how many tickets you sold so your numbers match the Lottery's own statement.

Louisiana is a licence state, and an unusually open one: a convenience or grocery store can sell beer, wine and spirits from the same counter, something most licence states reserve for package stores. Getting there takes two separate ATC permits, one for high-content beverages and one for low-content, plus a matching local permit, and every employee who sells alcohol or tobacco needs Responsible Vendor certification within 45 days of hire. Wet and dry status is set parish by parish and ward by ward, so hours and availability vary by address. Both alcohol and tobacco carry a 21-plus age line, and Storeveu prompts for date of birth at the register and keeps access role-scoped to staff cleared to ring those categories.