End-of-life notice
LiquorPOS is done.
Your store isn’t.
LiquorPOS has officially announced end-of-life — support and updates are winding down. Here’s what that means for your store, and what moving to a system that’s still being built looks like.
We migrate your LiquorPOS data — items, customers, history.
At a glance
How it got here
A good product that stopped being the product.
If you’ve been in liquor retail long enough, you remember when LiquorPOS was the go-to system. It was purpose-built for beverage stores, and it was good at what it did.
Then Heartland Payment Systems acquired it in 2014, and Global Payments acquired Heartland in 2016 for $4.3 billion. Inside a $30+ billion processing company, the software stopped being the product and became a way to sell payment processing. Development slowed, then stopped. Now it’s official: LiquorPOS is end-of-life, and support is winding down.
That’s not a knock on the people who built it — it’s just how the economics work when a processor owns your POS.
The stores still running it are the only ones left holding the countdown.
The LiquorPOS timeline
- 2014 Heartland Payment Systems acquires LiquorPOS
- 2016 Global Payments acquires Heartland for $4.3B
- Since Development slows, then stops
- 2026 End-of-life announced — support winding down
What end-of-life means
Running an unsupported POS is a risk you carry every day.
No drama — just what stops happening when a vendor walks away from a product.
No security updates
Vulnerabilities go unpatched — and your POS handles payment data all day long.
No compliance updates
Payment and age-check requirements keep changing; an unmaintained system quietly falls behind them.
No new features
AI, invoice scanning, smarter ordering — the industry moves on while your system stays frozen.
Support winding down
When the counter goes down on a Saturday night, there may be no one left to call.
Aging hardware, no path
Old PC hardware eventually fails — with no vendor behind the software, there’s no plan for what replaces it.
The way out is handled
We migrate LiquorPOS data — items, customers, vendors, history. Most stores are live faster than they expect.
Side by side
The comparison, in one table.
A feature-by-feature grid matters less when one side has stopped moving. Here’s what actually decides it.
| mPower | LiquorPOS | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | ✓Actively developed | End of life — winding down |
| Ownership | ✓Independent | Global Payments (NYSE: GPN) |
| Industry focus | ✓Beer, wine & spirits only — 15+ years | Processor-owned since 2014 |
| AI & automation | ✓Invoice scanning, plain-English rules, assistant | — |
| Payment processing | ✓Choice of three integrated partners | Heartland only |
| Multi-location | ✓Unlimited, centrally managed | Single-store design |
| Security & updates | ✓Ongoing — always current | Winding down |
| Support | ✓Direct — nights, weekends & holidays | Winding down |
| Data migration from LiquorPOS | ✓We handle it — items, customers, history | — |
Where mPower is different
Built for this category — and still being built.
Purpose-built, not adapted
Case breaks, keg deposits, age checks, distributor invoicing — native features for 15+ years, not afterthoughts. LiquorPOS started the same way; after the acquisition, its development served a processor’s priorities instead.
Your processor, your choice
LiquorPOS locked you into Heartland. mPower gives you a choice of three integrated processing partners — find a better rate and switch without replacing your POS. In a margin business, that flexibility is real money.
AI that works a liquor store
Plain-English inventory rules, automated purchase orders, invoice scanning, margin protection, a built-in assistant — years of AI investment LiquorPOS never made and now never will.
Migration, handled
We migrate LiquorPOS data — items, customers, vendors, sales history. We’ve done it enough times to know where the edge cases are. Most stores are up and running faster than they expect.
The path off LiquorPOS
Six steps, and we walk them with you.
Schedule a demo
See the system and get answers about your specific setup.
Export your data
We walk you through pulling items, customers, and history out of LiquorPOS.
We import & clean
Our team handles the import and the cleanup that comes with it.
Set up hardware
mPower runs on standard Windows PCs — in many cases, the ones you already own.
Train your team
We train your staff and make sure everything runs before you go live.
Go live, covered
We’re available nights, weekends, and holidays through your transition.
If you’re on LiquorPOS, the question isn’t if you’ll move — it’s when, and to what.
Ready to move
off LiquorPOS?
We’ll waive the $1,000 setup fee for LiquorPOS migrations — no strings, no catch. Just a cleaner path to a system that’s actively maintained and built for how you run your store.
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