Aivin reads from your point of sale, your inventory system, your accounting and your bonded storage, and it never writes to the POS. Every connector states what it reads and what it writes before you authorise it, and each carries an honest state: available now, in build, planned, or waiting on a data licence.
| Connector | Reads | Writes | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Any file you can export | CSV, sheet, POS export, PDF, photographs of bin cards | Nothing — a person reads it | Available now |
| Toast | Wine sales by item, covers, voids, comps | Nothing — never edits your POS | In build |
| BinWise | Bin locations, physical counts, par levels | Bin corrections, on your instruction only | In build |
| Backbar | Lots, bins, counts, costs | Nothing without your instruction | In build |
| Lightspeed | Wine sales by item, covers, discounting | Nothing | Planned |
| QuickBooks | Supplier invoices, cost per bottle, payment dates | Inventory valuation journal, monthly, on approval | Planned |
| Invoice inbox | Emailed and PDF supplier invoices | New lots, after your review | Planned |
| Octavian Vaults | In-bond holdings, rotation numbers, storage charges | Nothing | Planned |
| OpenTable | Covers by service, guest notes, allergies | Nothing | Planned |
| Wine-Searcher | Merchant offers, comparable counts, price history | Nothing | Licence required |
| Liv-ex | Bid and offer, trade history, indices | Nothing | Licence required |
Aivin never writes to a point of sale. Not once and not optionally — there is no code path that does it, which is a different claim from a permission that could be granted.
The manual path is available today and is what the free report runs on. That matters more than it sounds: it means no distributor’s API queue and no POS vendor’s review cycle can stop a house from starting this week.
We just got the whole team onto BinWise. I am not moving again.
No, and you should not. Your inventory system counts bottles and reconciles against the POS, which is what it is for. What it does not carry is a market reference, an evidence grade, a house service window or a provenance chain, so it cannot tell an insurer what the cellar is worth. Aivin reads from it and never writes to your POS.