Built for age-restricted retail
Compliance checks for liquor and beverage retail
When age-restricted product is the whole business, the license is too, and one missed ID can start a review. Your clerks know these checks run. They just never know which customer is doing the checking.
2+checks per location per month, our highest-frequency program
In liquor retail, the license is the business. A failed state sting can mean a hearing, a suspension, or the loss of the license itself.
When every product in your business necessitates age verification, you can't afford to get it wrong. That's why BARS checks liquor stores at a higher frequency, ensuring that mistakes are caught before you have a problem.
What's different about a BARS liquor program
More checks per month, records built for a license proceeding, and a rotation that covers every category you carry.
Higher visit frequency
Two or more independent checks per location per month.
Rotated across spirits, beer, and wine
Every category with an age requirement gets checked.
Region, banner, and store-level dashboards
From one store up to the full banner, in a secure portal that only your authorized users can open.
License-review documentation packages
Records assembled for a proceeding and exported on written request.
Consistent scoring
The same standard at owned and franchise locations. Previous reports stay archived by store number and date of check.
Records that work when a license is on the line.
Operators bring BARS records into license-review proceedings as proof of an ongoing, independent compliance check program. Regulators routinely treat a continuous third-party program as a mitigating factor, especially on a first or isolated violation. BARS exports records for legal submission on written request, at no extra cost to customers in good standing.
License states. Control states. Canadian provinces.
BARS works across the U.S. and Canada: in license states, control states, and provinces where the government runs liquor distribution. The visit script, the scoring, and the reporting stay the same regardless of jurisdiction. What changes is the logistics of getting a Checker to the register.
Check results stay between BARS and you.
Every BARS check is confidential between BARS and the customer. We do not share results, store-level scores, or associate names with regulators, law enforcement, manufacturers, or anyone else, under any circumstance. Reports sit in a secure portal only your authorized users can open. That is what makes the program safe to run month after month. The checks exist so you can coach your team, not so someone outside your company can build a file on it.
What liquor operators use BARS for
Three ways operators put the records to work.
Defend a license review
Documented proof of a continuous, independent compliance check program.
Get ready before the state arrives
Extra checks scheduled around published enforcement activity, in the states that publish it.
Operate across license and control states
One standard, adapted to each jurisdiction's rules.
Get a program scoped to your stores.
Send us your locations and we will come back with a program and a quote within one business day.
Common questions
How is a BARS check different from a government sting?
Does BARS report a missed check to my state liquor board or to the police?
Will BARS records help defend a license review?
Do you operate in control states?
What products does a BARS liquor program cover?
Can BARS records be shared with my insurance carrier or attorney?
See it for yourself
Find out what your carding rate actually is.
A 30-minute demo walks your team through a real sample report and the visit structure that fits your footprint. Pricing is scoped to your store count and how often you want us in the stores.