Compliance

Delivery rules

Delivering alcohol is the most heavily-regulated thing your store does. FoolProof enforces the zones, hours, and door checks a delivery license demands — so a delivery your drivers make is a delivery you can defend.

For store owners & drivers · About 6 minutes

First, the license. Delivering alcohol requires your store to hold the appropriate delivery license for your state. That application is yours to make — FoolProof does not obtain it for you. What FoolProof does is enforce what the license requires once you have it.

Where you can deliver — resolved by address

An address isn't just "in range." It resolves to its county and municipality, and FoolProof knows which of those are deliverable. In a state like Alabama, wet and dry is decided by county, with wet cities inside dry counties — a delivery address is checked against that before the order can exist. "I thought that address was fine" stops being something that can happen to you.

When you can deliver

Delivery-hour limits are enforced in the store's local time. Outside the permitted window, the order won't go out. Volume caps that apply to a customer follow the customer across orders, the same way they do in-store.

What has to happen at the door

The driver completes the checks the statute requires before handing over the order. FoolProof walks them through it and records that it was done.

  1. Confirm the recipient is of legal age — the driver checks a valid ID at the door.
  2. Scan the ID where required.
  3. Capture a signature as proof of delivery.
  4. Refuse and record if anything is wrong — no delivery to someone underage or intoxicated, nothing left unattended.
Every drop is on the record. Who delivered, to whom, when, with the ID check and signature attached. That's your proof, and it's exportable for an inspection — see Audit Logs.

Your drivers, your customers

This is first-party delivery: your drivers, your rules, your customer relationship — not a third-party courier. FoolProof gives you the driver app, the routing, and the compliance checks; you keep the customer.

Not legal advice. Delivery provisions apply to stores holding the required delivery license, and rules are configured for your jurisdiction at setup. This describes how the software behaves — your beverage attorney should still review your operation.