Tobacco Store Age Verification
Tobacco stores must verify the age of their customers before they are legally permitted to process a sale. Watch the video below as we discuss how Bepoz manages age verification for tobacco stores and also learn how to understand tobacco laws better.
Understanding Tobacco Laws
There is a federal law that places the minimum age to buy tobacco products at 21. However, the law isn’t as clear as a simple cut-off at that age. Tribal areas, territories, cities, counties, and states can enact their own laws, making it possible for legal tobacco purchasing to change based on where your store is located. This can become very confusing and complicated, especially if you own multiple retail locations.
Tobacco Store Age Verification
Bepoz point of sale systems for age verification reminds your cashier to check customer age with every transaction no matter how your local laws might differ from federal statutes. If your store sells both tobacco and alcohol, Bepoz point of sale systems can be set up to prompt to check for customer age for alcohol transactions as well. This also could include scanning the driver’s license for extra control. You won’t have to worry about being penalized for accidentally selling to a minor because your cashier forgot to check their age. Likewise, your cashiers will be able to tell right away if they are legally able to sell to the customer or not.
Age Verification and Loyalty Programs
A great customer incentive for joining a loyalty program is the ease of purchasing future products. Your store can scan the customer’s driver’s license or valid state identification card, which is then stored within the Bepoz system as the customer’s loyalty card. When that customer shops again, their age information is already available. Not only that, but your customers will receive all included perks of joining your loyalty program. This all but ensures they will return to your tobacco store for all of their future purchases.
We can help you make sure your cashiers always check customer age with every purchase. We can also help your customers to be happier with a streamlined identification process. Are you interested in learning more about Bepoz Tobacco Store POS System & Software? Give us a call today!
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Video Transcript
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:17 Tobacco Store Age Verification: Age Verification Prompts
0:25 Tobacco Store Age Verification: Types Of Age Verification Prompts
0:55 Tobacco Store Age Verification: Record Age Verification For Future Transactions
1:34 Use Driver’s License As Loyalty Card
Hey, this is Tim with Bepoz point of sale for tobacco stores. In this video, we’re going to talk about the capacity of Bepoz to handle age verification. Now, there are multiple ways that Bepoz can handle age verification for your tobacco store.
0:17 Tobacco Store Age Verification: Age Verification Prompts
Of course, when you sell a product that requires age verification. Bepoz can prompt for that age verification.
0:25 Tobacco Store Age Verification: Types Of Age Verification Prompts
But it could prompt in several different ways. It could just prompt to remind the cashier, hey you need to check their age. It could make that prompt pop up and display the date of birth that the person needs to be older than on their driver’s license, or it could prompt them to scan with a special driver’s license scanner that Bepoz provides to scan the driver’s license which will validate the age.
0:55 Tobacco Store Age Verification: Record Age Verification For Future Transactions
And in any case, that log of the fact that it was age verified, and if a date of birth was entered either by scanning or hand entering, that date of birth will be recorded with the transaction in the transaction log. So if you get audited by your tobacco board or whoever it is, ATF, who’s tracking your sales, you could then be able to produce a record that says, hey we checked the age verification. We scanned it and this was the date of birth or we entered it and this was the date of birth and we checked it and this is what we checked when they came in.
1:34 Use Driver’s License As Loyalty Card
Now, an interesting side note of that ability to scan the driver’s license is that once you have a scanner to be able to scan the driver’s license, we could also use that scanner to turn that driver’s license into a loyalty card. Now there’ll be a whole other video on loyalty if you want to explore some of the capacities of Bepoz to handle loyalty, but it is quite unique and a nice feature that you could then scan that driver’s license and use it as their loyalty card because everybody has that driver’s license with them everywhere they go. So it’ll be an easy way to pull up loyalty customers. Of course, you can look them up many other ways, but it is a nice way and a nice add-on to do it for that.
So if you’d like to talk to Bepoz about how we can help you with your tobacco store business, we would love to talk to you. You can call us at the number at the top of your screen or click the link below.