{"id":73720,"title":"🍷 Transformity - Modern point-of-sale for liquor stores","tagline":"Helping liquor stores save time and grow their business.","body":"### Problem\n\nLiquor stores run inefficiently. Operators rely on paper and phone interactions with suppliers, do not accurately maintain inventory and prices, miss valuable discount periods, struggle to monitor regulatory changes, and do not capitalize on new revenue streams. \n\n### Solution\n\nTransformity is a point-of-sale system purpose-built for liquor stores that integrates with their suppliers, automates manual work, and opens new sources of revenue. Transformity provides:\n\n1. **Supplier integration**: Provides a digitized catalog from liquor wholesalers, including all available products, pricing \u0026 discounts.\n2. **Purchasing decisions**: Generates purchase orders that optimize inventory based on pricing and sales.\n3. **Automatic inventory tracking**: Receives digital invoices to seamlessly maintain inventory and prices.\n4. **Regulatory monitoring**: Automatically tracks monthly changes to liquor regulatory requirements.\n5. **Additional revenue streams**: Integrates with delivery and e-commerce platforms.\n\n### Customer response\n\n\u003e _“Transformity is exactly what we needed. A system built by liquor store owners for liquor stores.”_ - Rason Bell, Little Rooster Liquors\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=73720\u0026key=user_uploads/992509/dedbfa6c-14d5-4e24-a281-bb015ded6a9b)\n\n_Our first user in action!_\n\n### Team\n\nJay and Param both come from families who have owned liquor stores across 3 states for over 20 years. They grew up working at their parents’ stores. They’ve been close friends since college and worked as engineers @ Amazon.\n\n### Our request\n\nIf you know anyone in the liquor industry, we’d love to chat! Even connecting us to your favorite liquor store would help. Please reach out at [param@transformity.tech](mailto:param@transformity.tech).","slug":"JB2-transformity-modern-point-of-sale-for-liquor-stores","created_at":"2023-08-02T17:28:46.474Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T02:56:43.537Z","total_vote_count":26,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JB2-transformity-modern-point-of-sale-for-liquor-stores","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":28883,"name":"Margin","slug":"margin","url":"https://usemargin.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/87b560e31073922b9212a3b9849ef30b5e5dc6e4.png","batch":"Summer 2023","industry":"B2B","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/28883"}}