Selling Alcohol Online In the UK What Licences do I need To Sell Alcohol Online For Delivery The sale by retail of alcohol is a licensable activity and may only be carried out under the terms of a premises licence (or temporary event notice). In terms of sales made online section 190 of the 2003 Licensing Act provides that the sale of alcohol is to be treated as taking place where the alcohol is ‘appropriated’ to the contract. In other words, the location/warehouse that the order is stored, picked and dispatched from would hold the premises licence and not the call centre or website that had received the online order initially. Read More: https://www.innconfidence.co.uk/pages/selling-alcohol-online-in-the-uk