01 / The register
Scan, tender, verify age, print. Built for a counter with a queue at it, not for a demo — and it keeps ringing sales when the internet drops.
02 / Your pocket
The day's takings on your home screen before you open anything. Inside: revenue by category, drawers that need a look, and every sale as it rings.
03 / The back office
Inventory, scheduling, pricing and staff, from any browser. The screen you use when you are not standing in the store.
04 / What you buy
One iPad per register, with a scanner, a receipt printer and a cash drawer. Daisho runs on the phone you already carry and Nexus runs in a browser, so the counter is the only thing you buy for.
Point of sale · liquor retail
Ambix runs the register, watches the shelves and reads your invoices — so you stop being the only person who knows how the store works.
Open a marker on the counter
What it actually does
Pick the PDF your distributor sent. No template to set up, no mapping to configure, nothing to type.
Ambix pulls out every line, finds the product it belongs to and prices it against what you already carry.
This takes about two minutes. Typing forty rows in by hand takes rather longer, and the clip is cut down to the two ends of that wait.
Costs that moved, products you have never carried, quantities that do not match the sheet. Nothing reaches your stock until you say so.
Capabilities
Every register writes to the same stock count, so what the screen says is what the shelf holds. Receiving, adjustments, transfers and dead stock all land in the same ledger — and every movement keeps its reason.
A six-pack is a product, not six products. It carries its own barcode and its own price, and the singles keep theirs.
Scan the ID at checkout, in the same motion as the bottle. Not a separate app, not a separate step.
The internet is not a dependency of selling a bottle. Sales carry on and catch up when the line is back.
End of day reconciles itself: takings, payment split, variance and the cashier it belongs to, without waiting for you to sit down with a calculator.
Post the roster, watch the punches, sign off the pay run. The same people who ring the sales are the ones the schedule is built from.
Guardian
Guardian watches for the things that quietly cost money — a price that drifted, a delivery that never arrived, a count that stopped matching — and turns each one into a task with a name on it.
How Guardian works →
Why it exists
Built by someone who knows your world.
Ambix was designed from day one for liquor stores — not adapted from a generic retail platform. It is built by a store owner, in his own stores, because the software he needed did not exist. Every feature is here because a real store needed it on a real day.
Questions
Something not here? Ask us on the form below and we will answer it properly.
An iPad for each register, with a scanner, a receipt printer and a cash drawer. Daisho runs on your iPhone and Nexus runs in any browser, so the only thing you buy for the counter is the counter.
Station keeps ringing sales. It holds them locally and catches up as soon as the connection returns — you are not closing the store because the line went down.
No. Ambix reads the manufacturer barcodes already on the bottles. A pack carries its own code, so a six-pack scans as a six-pack rather than as six separate sales.
It reads the PDF your distributor already sends, without a template to set up first. Ambix is built around the distributors a liquor store actually buys from, and a new format is work we do rather than work you do.
Your records stay yours and you can take them with you. Ambix also builds anonymised, area-level market statistics from what stores sell, which we license to brands and distributors — never to another retailer, and never in a form that identifies a store. The privacy policy and the Terms of Service set out exactly what that covers, including the thresholds that keep it anonymous.
That depends on the state of your current inventory file, which is the honest answer. We load your products, prices and stock with you rather than handing you a spreadsheet and wishing you luck.
Pricing
What Ambix costs depends on how many registers you run and what you need moved over. We would rather quote you honestly than publish a number with an asterisk on it.
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See what Ambix does with your shelves, your invoices and your hours. We will show you the real thing, not a slide deck.