Technology Changes

Use this page to prepare for the major changes TABC will be making to our technology on Sept. 1, 2021. You will find the following information on this page:

• What you must do to log into for the first time (or “onboard”) to our new online Alcohol Industry Management System (AIMS).
• The schedule your business must follow.

Businesses on Sept. 1 will begin to use AIMS based on a phased-in onboarding process, which you can see later in this section.

As you create your AIMS account, you’ll officially see any changes that have occurred to your license. When you go to apply for or renew a license, you’ll be following the new licensing structure and fees set by TABC rule (not yet adopted).

When creating an account, there will be separate instructions for businesses that would like to hold a license and those that already hold a license. Current license holders must also complete a process called “claiming a business,” where they will provide some key information to match their data from our old system with the new one.

If your business entity has multiple licenses, you will be scheduled to onboard into AIMS based on your earliest expiration date. You’ll only have to onboard once because all licenses associated with your business entity will automatically be added to your AIMS account during the “claiming a business” process.

Beginning Sept. 1, the following parties may start using AIMS to create an account and begin applying for a license:

• Non-license holders that haven’t yet filed an application with TABC.
• Current license holders that need to apply for a subordinate authority, file a supplemental change (e.g., a change in ownership, officers, address, etc.), or apply for temporary event approval or submit a file and use notification for an event.

Applications will be based on the new licensing structure and fees set by TABC rules (not yet adopted).

Beginning Sept. 1, the following license holders must log in to AIMS and complete the onboarding process by the end of September:

• Manufacturing tier (must use AIMS to file your excise tax reports due in October)
• Distribution tier (must use AIMS to file your excise tax reports due in October)
• Licenses that expire in September (regardless of the expiration year)
• Licenses that expire in October (regardless of the expiration year)

After onboarding, you can renew licenses, file reports and complete other tasks in AIMS. Renewals will be based on the new licensing structure and fees set by TABC rules (not yet adopted).

Beginning Oct. 1, all license holders that did not qualify to onboard into AIMS in September must onboard into AIMS based on the month that their license expires (expiration year doesn’t matter). This process will include a live virtual educational event with a chance to get answers for your questions. The education portion of the onboarding process will begin two months before your expiration date and includes businesses that applied for a license before Aug. 1 and received it after that date.

TABC will work with you to complete your AIMS onboarding in the month immediately before your license expiration month.

We set up this process to ensure that everyone applying for or renewing a license after Sept. 1 will do it in AIMS.

• Onboarding process: The onboard process will be complete and all businesses will be using AIMS by August 2022.
• Printing your license: Current license holders must print their license from AIMS and properly post it at their licensed location.
• Submitting paper documents to TABC (i.e., not using AIMS): While not encouraged, we will still accept paper applications, forms and documents developed and completed outside of AIMS. However, submitting paper applications or documents outside of AIMS will delay the agency’s processing of and response to those submissions.