Store owners: 12 states cut soda and candy from food stamps (SNAP).
Each state has its own soda and candy rules, and most give stores no item list. Owners check items one by one and guess. After a 90-day grace period, a store gets a warning letter, then can lose SNAP.
Your state
Drop your register item list
Read in this browser only. Nothing is uploaded or stored.
Where to get the item list from your register
- Most registers export the item list (often called the item file) as a CSV or Excel file from the back office: look for Items or Products, then Export.
- Keep the barcode (UPC) column, the item name and the department. If the file has an EBT or SNAP column, Uncheck shows which restricted items are still switched on.
- Drop the file here as it is. Column names are found for you.
A barcode file (your state's, or a list you bought)
Pick a state to see if it gives one.
Departments to uncheck
Whole department: switch off EBT for all of it, then back on for anything the label clears.
Every item
Open the fix list in a spreadsheet and switch off EBT on the marked items in your register.
How Uncheck works
How it works
Your files are opened in this browser and never leave it. If you add your state's barcode file, items whose barcode is on it are marked restricted (leading zeros and the last check digit are matched either way). Every other item is read by its name and department against your state's written rules: soda, diet soda, energy drinks, sweet tea and lemonade, sports drinks, juice drinks, candy (with the flour and refrigeration rules where your state has them) and desserts. A name match is marked likely restricted, check the label, or no rule matched; an item is called covered only where the state's own rule says so (for example 100% juice). Only the label (sugar, juice percent, caffeine, flour) settles the hard cases.
Facts: USDA table of state SNAP food restriction waivers (start dates, fetched 2026-11-06), NACS on the USDA retailer memo (90-day grace period, warning letter, then possible removal), state rule pages linked under each state, NRS guide on unchecking EBT by hand, NACS Magazine on the work it takes.
Uncheck is not USDA, a state agency or a register maker, and the store stays responsible for what it rings up. Help: grapnel.team@gmail.com