You run the store. Esplanda runs the business.

Esplanda is retail management software for independent, owner-run stores: liquor and wine stores, grocery and convenience stores, restaurants and bars, retail shops and service businesses. It runs the register, stock, pricing and marketing from one system, and for each job you choose whether it tells you what to do next, prepares the work, such as a supplier order or a price change, for your approval, or does routine work inside limits you set. Every action is recorded with what it was predicted to earn and what it actually earned, in dollars.

Yes, and it is free. Esplanda POS and the move from your old system cost $0, with 30 days of running side by side, the hardware is free with qualifying Esplanda card processing, and it also runs on a desktop, tablet or phone you already have. Card processing is optional and priced separately, and every software price is the same on any processor. Esplanda processes card payments as a reseller for First American Payment Systems, a Deluxe company, with rates from 2.79% + $0.10 in person and 2.89% + $0.30 online, and your rate is set when First American approves your account, from your current statement.

Yes. Esplanda connects to Square, Clover, Lightspeed and KORONA registers, so you keep the register you have. Esplanda POS is also free, and it is the simpler path: one system, no products to match and nothing to reconcile at night.

Esplanda reads your sales and stock counts, warns you before a best seller runs out and shows how much cash is tied up in stock that is not selling. You choose how far it goes: it tells you what to reorder and when, or writes one purchase order per supplier, timed to each supplier's delivery day, for one tap to send, or sends orders inside your maximum order value, weekly ceiling and approved suppliers. Anything outside those limits waits for your approval.

Retail management software, also called retail store management software, runs the business side of a store from one system: the register, inventory and supplier orders, prices, customers and marketing, and the reports. The must-haves for an independent store are a POS that keeps selling when the internet drops, run-out warnings, purchase orders, competitor price tracking and loyalty, all on one catalog. Esplanda also tells you what to do next, prepares the work or does it inside limits you set, as you choose, and records what each action earned in dollars.

For an owner-run store, yes: Esplanda runs the register, stock and ordering, prices, customers and marketing, listings and reviews, online ordering, staff scheduling and reports from one system. Esplanda POS and your website are free to start, with no credit card needed, and you add paid tools such as marketing or staff scheduling one at a time, each priced per location per month. Staff scheduling hands clean hours and export-ready timesheets to the payroll provider you already use.

Yes, as far as you allow: pricing can stay on advice only, or every price change can wait for one tap. If you let it act, it moves prices only above your margin floor and inside your price rules, and a move near a floor or larger than your maximum move size waits for one tap. Your state's legal minimum on alcohol prices is never crossed, and you can switch to approve-everything mode at any time.