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Open your convenience store on Sparto

What the Convenience store starter sets up, the age checks it switches on, and what to read next.

A convenience or liquor store is sold as the Convenience store preset: one price a month for the location, and a price for each Merchant Display. It is set up with you on a configuration call. Book one from sparto.io/pricing.

What the call sets up

1. Your location, on the Convenience store preset, and you as its owner.
2. The starter. On Setup you tap Show what's left, then Start with the Convenience store starter, once. It adds five categories (Beer and wine, Tobacco, Snacks, Drinks, Lottery) with an item or two in each. The beer and the wine are marked alcohol, the cigarettes and the lighter tobacco, so the Merchant Display asks for ID before they sell.
3. The age checks. The starter sets them to ask whoever looks under 40 and to accept a scanned licence or a typed date. Alcohol and tobacco use your state's legal age. Lottery has no federal age, so you set it on the call. See Age restricted products.
4. Your tax rates, reviewed with you. The starter never sets tax. See Tax rates.
5. Your people, with a PIN each. See Add your people.

The starter is only for an empty Merchant Display. Build on it from Products: your own items with barcodes, and the kind of restriction on each.

On the counter

• A tablet for the Merchant Display, Android or iPad, on a stand.
• A card reader that takes a tap. See Pair a card reader.
• A receipt printer and a cash drawer. See Printer and drawer.
• A barcode scanner that reads the back of a driving licence as well as a product.

You buy these from any retailer. We pair them with you on the call.

Read next

• Sign in at the Merchant Display
• Check an ID
• A cash sale and a card sale

Try it first on the demo shop at demo.sparto.app. Ring the beer and the Merchant Display asks for ID.