The Compliance page shows what needs fixing, your alcohol licenses, sale hours, where you may legally deliver, and Alabama's trade-practice rules, plus the records an inspector asks for: inspection packet, delivery log and annual report, tastings, compliance checks, Responsible Vendor Program, wholesaler payments and sharing with regulators.
A step-by-step walkthrough with real screenshots · FoolProof POS for alcohol retail
Steps
Open Compliance from the menu.
Check the Delivery Radius and Jurisdiction tiles at the top.
Work through Needs attention — each item has a button that takes you to the fix.
Under Alcohol licenses, click Add license to record each license with its class, number and expiry date (tick Permits delivery on your Delivery Service License), or Edit to update one.
If the ABC Board suspends a license, Edit it, tick Suspended by the ABC Board and enter the dates and a note. Untick it when the suspension is lifted. Every change is recorded.
Under Compliance records, open ID Checks or Refused Sales — the logs an inspector asks for.
Use the Coverage map: green is where you may deliver, red is blocked by law.
Scroll to Trade-practice rules to see what Alabama allows, each with a badge (Yes, No or Unverified) and citation.
Good to know
Keep license expiry dates current. From 60 days before a license expires it shows in Needs attention, getting more urgent at 30 and 7 days, and the owner and admins get an email at 60, 30 and 7 days and if it expires — one email each time. FoolProof is alerted too. To stop the emails, turn off Admin → Compliance tools → Email licence expiry reminders. Keep your Delivery Service License current: without a current license marked Permits delivery, every delivery order is refused.
The coverage map follows each county's wet/dry status, the wet cities inside dry counties, and Alabama's 75-mile limit. A dry city inside a wet county isn't drawn on the map, but delivery orders to one on FoolProof's dry-city list are refused.
In Alabama, alcohol retailers can't give customers rewards or other inducements to buy. That's why FoolProof's loyalty sign-up only collects contact details — no points or rewards.
Trade-practice rules are researched public regulations, not legal advice. Confirm with a licensed beverage attorney before relying on one.
A retail license past its expiry date, or marked suspended, puts a banner on New Sale and on the pickup hand-over. You choose what else happens in Admin → Compliance tools → Licence expired or suspended: Warn (the default) only shows the banner, Block also refuses register sales, pickups and receiving, Off shows nothing. Deliveries are always refused without a current Delivery Service License that isn't suspended.
When you schedule a tasting, pick what is poured. The sample size and samples per person start from Alabama's limits for it: spirits 1/4 oz, 3 per person (r. 20-X-7-.11; Ala. Code § 28-3A-20.2 says 2); beer 2 oz samples, the tasting no longer than 2.5 hours (r. 20-X-7-.10); wine four 1-oz samples, starting by 6 p.m. and lasting no more than 2 hours (r. 20-X-7-.07). You can change them. Going past a limit, or planning a second tasting within 24 hours (§ 28-3A-20.2), shows a warning you confirm with Schedule anyway, and the warning is kept with the tasting. Admin → Compliance tools → Tasting limits can make it Block or Off instead.
1. What needs attention
The tiles show your legal delivery radius and governing code. Needs attention lists anything to fix, with a button to go fix it. Add each alcohol license so its expiry is tracked.
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1Your legal delivery radius and jurisdiction.
2Things to fix, each with a button to the fix.
3Add your alcohol licenses.
2. Alabama's rules
Trade-practice rules list what's legal for alcohol retail in Alabama, each with a badge (Yes, No or Unverified), a short explanation, and the citation.
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