California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act
On January 1, 2024, wine containers sold in (or shipped to) California will be subject to a CRV (California Redemption Value) fee as per the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act (also known as the “Bottle Bill”).
Wine Software has updated its sales platforms to allow configuration of automatic CRV fee calculations. The automatic calculation will add a CRV fee for qualified sales to your sales receipts at the point-of-sale and Back Office.
This new feature is available now. You will need to update your Wine Software (point-of-sale and Back Office) per the instructions below..
CRV Fee collection schedule:
- Bottles smaller than 750mL (less than 24 fluid ounces), the CRV is .05 cents/bottle.
- Bottles 750mL or larger (24 fluid ounces or more), the CRV is .10 cents/bottle.
- Boxes, bladders, pouches, or similar containers (regardless of size), the CRV is .25 cents/container.
Activating Automatic CRV in Wine Software
Update your Wine Software
Steps:
- iPad point-of-sale should auto-update. You can check your version by tapping MENU | About this App from the iPad sales screen. It should read “Version 4.2.23, API: 4.2.9” or later.
- Windows point-of-sale - Select the update link (in red) from the Cashier Login Screen (if present) and/or check the version from the Cashier Login screen. It should read “Version 4.2.43“ or later.
- Back Office system - Select the update link (in red) from the Login Screen (if present) and/or check the version from the About link in the lower left of the menu screen. It should read “BO Ver 4.2.42” or later.
Review Your Items! <-- important!!
If you have active tasting fees or wine by glass in your wine item group that are set to ‘Inventoried’, they will incur a CRV fee. There may be other examples of items in your wine group that should not incur a CRV fee. It will be important to review your item list to avoid charging a CRV fee on items that do not qualify for CRV.
Using the General Inventory List report from the Inventory Control menu, set the Group filter to Wine (and select any other group that carries alcohol such as Beer or Spirits), then set Active = ‘Yes’. Print the report.
If there are items in the list that should NOT receive a CRV fee, you will need to make sure they are either non-inventoried (the ‘Inv’ column shows inventoried status), or move them to a non-Wine group, or make them inactive.
Activating Automatic CRV
Activation of CRV can be done in advance of January 1, 2024 however the automatic addition of CRV on sales receipts will not take effect in the software until January 1, 2024.Steps:
- Navigate to System Setup | Preferences and choose the Invoicing tab
- In Invoicing Defaults, locate CRV Item Number. If not activated, a button will show as Activate CRV. Click the button to activate
- Perform a Sync on ALL iPads using MENU | Sync Device from the sales screen
Deactivating Automatic CRV
Steps:
- Navigate to System Setup | Preferences and choose the Invoicing tab
- Remove the item # from the CRV Item Number field
- Perform a FULL sync on each iPad using MENU | Sync Device from the sales screen
Using Automatic CRV
Note: Automatic CRV only applies to wine containers being carried out from a California Winery, or wine containers being shipped to a California destination. Automatic calculations will not take effect in the software until January 1, 2024.iPad & Windows POS
- Ring up the items in the sale
- When FINALIZE is tapped, CRV will be calculated and added to the sale
Back Office - Create Invoice
- Create an Invoice
- When FINALIZE is tapped, CRV will be calculated and added to the invoice
Back Office - Wine Club Orders
- Create Orders from Subscription screen
- CRV will automatically be calculated and added to qualified invoices
Inclusions / Exclusions
- CRV is only be applied to alcohol containers being carried out from a California Winery, or being shipped to a California destination
- Inventoried compliance items (alcohol such as wine, port, beer, cider, spirits) will be included in CRV calculations
- If an item is setup as ‘Non-Inventory’, it will not be included in CRV calculations
- Line items with a $0.00 extended price (such as Promo’s and Samples) will not be subject to CRV calculations
Note: Bottles consumed on-premise are NOT subject to CRV fees, however, at this time, there is no specific tracking of on-premise consumption and therefore CRV fees WILL be applied even if the bottle is consumed on-premise.
Reporting CRV Activity
If you are a Winery in California, or a Winery who ships to California:
Collection of CRV is optional, however, you will be expected to register your winery with CalRecyle and pay CRV Processing Fees for qualified CRV items sold within or to California. This includes wineries outside of California who ship to California.
A new report has been added to Back Office showing activity of containers subjected to CRV fees. Simply go to the Point of Sale menu and choose CRV Report under the Activities menu.
Note: The CRV Report link will only appear when Automatic CRV Calculations are activated.
