The sale of age-restricted items is risky, but if done properly, it can mean serious sales numbers. One-third of all beer purchased in the US—or 2 billion gallons a year—is sold at convenience stores. According to CNN Money, the most profitable restaurant in the US, Tao Las Vegas, made 75% of its income from alcohol in 2011.

That’s a lot of money—and a lot of risk. It’s easy to forget to check an ID, or to eyeball a customer and assume they are of legal age. The penalties for selling these items to underage teens are steep, so owners should protect themselves with Honeywell’s age verification solution, Easy DL™, which is included in pcAmerica’s Cash Register Express™ and Restaurant Pro Express™ software.

For any business looking to sell alcohol or tobacco, Federal regulations stipulate that employees need to check IDs and verify the customer is of legal age before completing their purchase. Doing this job manually is not only time-consuming, but has a large margin for error.

Honeywell’s Easy DL application prompts cashiers to scan the shopper’s government issued-ID license with the system’s barcode scanner, validating their age before proceeding with the transaction.

Implementing Easy DL not only protects your business, it also helps reduce transaction times, eliminates the margin of error and ensures regulatory compliance. Lines will move faster using automated age verification–it takes the average cashier 45 seconds to manually enter license data, compared to the two seconds it takes to scan it. The average person also makes an average of one error for every 20 words typed, a risk factor that’s eliminated when you scan IDs instead.

For more information about implementing Easy DL, please call your pcAmerica sales representative at 1-800-722-6374