POS built for Washington convenience, grocery and liquor stores

Yes. RCW 82.08.0293 exempts food and food ingredients, but soft drinks, bottled water, dietary supplements and prepared food all sit outside that exemption and ring at the full combined rate. Washington defines a soft drink as a sealed sweetened beverage containing no milk product and less than 50% fruit or vegetable juice, so two drinks sitting side by side in the same cooler can carry different treatments. That means the taxable flag has to be set per SKU in the catalog rather than assumed for a whole shelf. Storeveu drives it from per-department tax rules, so a basket with a loaf of bread and a can of cola prints both treatments correctly on one receipt.

From January 1, 2026 you collect 12 cents for each reusable carryout bag made of film plastic and 8 cents for each compliant paper bag under Chapter 70A.530 RCW. You keep that revenue, but the statute treats the pass-through charge as a taxable retail sale, so it has to ring as a taxable line rather than as a fee sitting outside the tax base, and every charge must be printed on the customer receipt. Until December 31, 2027 a film-plastic reusable bag 4 mils or thicker carries a further 4 cent penalty on top of the 12 cents, and that penalty is not retained by the store. The charge may not be collected from a customer paying with a WIC or TANF voucher or benefits card, or with federal SNAP or the Washington state Food Assistance Program, so it is set up as a taxable item that comes off those baskets.

Only from a premises with at least 10,000 square feet of fully enclosed retail space within a single structure, which is the gate RCW 66.24.630 sets for a spirits retail license. Former state liquor store operating rights holders and contract liquor stores are exceptions, and the Liquor and Cannabis Board may license a smaller premises where no qualifying retailer serves the trade area. Beer and wine are a different matter and sell on a grocery store license under RCW 66.24.360 with no square-footage minimum, which is why they are routine in small stores. If you do hold a spirits licence, two consumer-facing taxes ring on top of ordinary sales tax and are normally itemized on the receipt: a 20.5% spirits sales tax and a spirits liter tax of $3.7708 per liter on general public sales. Storeveu is configured around the categories your licence actually covers.

Because of the order the benefits are applied in. Items bought with USDA-issued food benefits are exempt from retail sales tax, and soft drinks are SNAP-eligible while still being taxable in Washington, so the two rules collide in a mixed basket. Department of Revenue guidance is to apply the benefits to the taxable eligible items first, which gives the customer the largest exemption. A register that simply applies the benefit to whatever sits at the top of the cart will overcharge tax on those lines. Storeveu keeps the exempt and taxable sides of the basket separated through per-department tax rules so the split is visible on the receipt and in the report.