The drinks
commerce
API
Building drinks logistics from scratch will eat your roadmap. Duty regimes, age verification, bonded flows, multi-warehouse orchestration, that's six quarters of engineering before your first parcel moves. There's a shortcut.
POST /v1/orders
{
"type": "d2c",
"destination": "DE",
"commercial_model": "fiscal_rep",
"age_verified": true,
"warehouse_id": "wh_nl_01",
"items": [{ "sku": "WHSKY-12YR-70CL", "qty": 2 }]
}
"order_id": "ord_3k9fJqP2mX",
"status": "dispatched",
"excise_ref": "DE-EX-2026-88241",
"tracking_url": "https://track.tipple.co/ord_3k9fJqP2mX"
}
Two APIs.
One drinks engine.
Each API is purpose-built for a different dispatch relationship. Same compliance engine underneath. Same TippleOS back-office included.
Three models.
You pick the model.
Cross-border drinks logistics has three painful layers, tax, transport, and the customer transaction itself. Most platforms make you take all three or none. Pick exactly how much of the load we carry.
Fiscal Rep
You handle the customer, payment, VAT, and courier. Tipple covers excise compliance and fiscal representation in destination markets.
Fiscal Rep + Transport
You handle the customer, payment, and VAT. Tipple covers excise and arranges alcohol-trained carrier contracts across seven countries.
Full Flow
Tipple takes the payment, pays VAT and excise, arranges transport. You own the customer and brand experience, we own every tax authority and courier.
Let your retailers ship directly. Across Europe. Without the headache.
Centralise fulfilment and you bottleneck your sellers. Decentralise it and you inherit a bunch of alcohol regulations. Tipple Embed for Marketplaces solves it: each retailer dispatches from their own warehouse, the API handles the compliance layer.
- ⚖Cross border duty calculation and remittance Across all three commercial models, for every EU destination.
- 🪪Age verification at order and delivery Compliant flows for all consumer markets, built in.
- 🚚Pan European courier orchestration Drinks trained carriers with glass and liquid handling.
- ↩Returns, refunds, and breakage workflows Purpose built for glass and liquid, not retrofitted from fashion logistics.
- 📦Realtime stock visibility Across distributed warehouses, available via API and in TippleOS.
- 🔔Webhooks for every order state Your frontend stays in sync without polling.
What your retailers get: A TippleOS instance to manage their catalogue, orders, stock, and dispatch without lifting a finger of integration work.
Because the alternative
is building it yourself.
And the people who've tried that are the ones we're now selling to.
Speed to market
Weeks to integrate, not quarters to build. Drinks dispatch live in your product before your next OKR review.
Compliance baked in
Duty, excise, age verification, alcohol courier rules, handled. You stay focused on commerce, not customs.
Pan-European by default
One integration, every EU market. No country-by-country roll-out plan required.
Commercial flexibility
Three models, from "just sort my excise" to "be the merchant of record." Pick what suits your stage.
TippleOS included
Every Tipple Embed customer gets the full TippleOS commerce platform as their management back-office. Not an upsell.
Built for drinks
The whole stack, APIs, logistics, commerce platform, is purpose-built for alcohol and beverage. Not retrofitted.