The Toolkit

Everything your POS was never built to tell you.

Twenty-eight tools across four parts of running a store. We handle the heavy thinking so you can get back to running the floor.

1. Purchasing: Buy what actually sells.

Protect your budget and prevent stockouts.

New York's whole wholesale market, already loaded.

Every month, 500+ New York distributors post their prices a month before you pay them. BlueTurtleLive reads every posting, deals and closeouts included, against the wines on your own shelf. Your rep shows you one book; we read them all.

Revenue-First Reordering

Ranks your order list by what you stand to lose if a bottle sells out. We fund your bread-and-butter bottles first to protect your cash flow. Spot a wine you don't stock yet on the posted list? Pin it into this week's order, where it competes for the same budget.

Stockout Alerts

Watches your best sellers daily and flags what is about to run out, catching the gap before the Friday rush finds it first.

Limited & Allocated

Flags limited-availability items, so you don't build a big order around bottles the distributor cannot fill.

SKU-by-SKU Forecasting

A demand forecast for every bottle you carry, accounting for the season, sales pace and how confident the numbers are.

Order Ahead of the Season

Spots the bottles heading into a seasonal peak and gives you the date to order by, so you can build up stock before the rush.

Weather-Aware Demand

Learns how your sales respond to heatwaves and storms, nudging the forecast only when weather actually moves the needle.

2. Capital & Space: Unfreeze your cash.

Turn dusty bottles back into working real estate.

Clearance Pacing Dial

Names the stock tying up your money. Pick a date to clear it, and we suggest the markdown needed to clear it by your date.

Assortment Imbalance

Stop giving dead stock your best real estate. Maps your shelf footprint against register revenue to show which categories are hogging space.

New Arrival Tracking

No sales history on a new bottle? We measure it against past launches to tell you within weeks whether it is taking off or falling flat.

Season vs. Trend Detection

Tells a temporary holiday bump from a true category decline, so you don't overcommit to a fading trend.

3. Growth & Earnings: Stop leaving margin on the table.

Actively increase your bottom line.

Price Headroom

Spots bottles you are selling cheaper than category peers, and estimates how much demand can drop before a price increase stops paying.

Next Month's Wholesale Price

The state posts prices a month ahead. We read them all, so you know whether to wait a week to order or load up today before costs rise.

Deals You Already Qualify For

Flags quantity discounts on wines you already buy, priced at the quantity you naturally order rather than an unreachable case count. If next month's posting moves the quantity needed for a deal, we tell you whether to buy now or wait.

Mixed Cases

Finds cases that cost less bought together. Everything is priced per ounce, so splits and magnums can be compared honestly.

Margin Strategy

A high-level view of which categories are protecting your margins and which ones are just holding shelf space.

Channel-by-Channel P&L

Compares what in-store sales net you against UberEats and DoorDash after their 15–20% commission comes off.

Your Best Customers, By Name

Puts names to your revenue. Suggests what else your top accounts might like, so you can reach out before the relationship drifts.

New Arrivals, Matched by Taste

A shipment lands and we work out whose palate matches the bottle, not just who bought that label before, then measure what the email did to sales.

Back-in-Stock Alerts

When a bottle a regular loves comes back in, we line up who wants to know. You click approve, and an arrival becomes an immediate sale.

Campaign Assist & Tastings

A slow case or a new arrival is a reason to reach out. We draft the campaign and pick who should get it, then show who came in and what sold after an email or a tasting. Nothing goes out until you say so.

4. The Engine: Built for the retail floor.

How it fits into your daily routine.

Daily Priorities

Your dashboard opens with today's four queues: what to reorder, reprice, hand-sell and feature, each with the money behind it and a button that opens the page where you act.

Works With Your POS

Connects read-only to Square, Shopify, Lightspeed, Clover and Santé. No IT projects, no re-exporting files, nothing to switch.

Catalog Taxonomy Engine

Barcodes reach fewer than 1 in 100 lines on New York's price list. Our engine normalizes messy free-text producer names, vintages and cuvées so your shelf and the market line up.

Your Business in Your Pocket

Check Daily Priorities, scan bottles and approve reorders from your iPhone or iPad while walking the floor or at a tasting. Get it on the App Store →

Store Checkup

A read on the whole business in plain words: what is growing, what needs a decision, how fast your stock turns. It comes with a plan for the weeks ahead, each item linked to the tool that handles it.

Impact Scorecard

Your results since go-live: sales against the same weeks last year, cash freed from stock, best sellers kept on the shelf, and deal savings, month by month, with a report you can export.

Reports on a Schedule

The reports you open every month, built and emailed the morning they're ready, so the read on your shop arrives whether or not you went looking for it.

Portfolio Console

Own more than one shop? See every store side by side. Move stock to where it sells and combine orders to hit volume tiers.Availability: designed for states that permit multiple licenses per owner.

Ready to let the brain do the heavy lifting?

Join the Founding Cellar, run the math on your actual store data, and lock in your founding pricing.

Would rather talk? Text or call Bobby on 862-579-7821 or Danny on 212-300-6555, or email [email protected].