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Comparison

DISTRYB vs. LibDib

If you want somebody else to be your distributor, LibDib is a real answer and DISTRYB is not — we do not take title to your product or carry it. If you already have distribution, or you are the distributor, DISTRYB is the system you run it on. The clearest tell is the pricing model: LibDib charges a monthly fee plus a markup on every case, because a markup is what a distributor earns. That is the price of a distribution service, not of software, and the two are not really substitutes.

LibDib

A licensed wholesale distributor that takes title to your product and sells it on to bars, restaurants and retailers, with its own ordering platform on top.

DISTRYB

Software a beverage business runs itself — producers, distributors, brokers and retailers trading on one compliant platform, with a consumer storefront and an agent-readable catalog.

LibDib, by their own numbers

What they are
Licensed wholesale spirits and wine distributor — libdib.com
Entry pricing for makers
$199/mo + a 20% markup (LibDib Access) — libdib.com/pricing
Higher tiers
Silver $250/mo + 15%; Gold $500/mo + 14% (3-month minimum) — libdib.com/pricing
Analytics add-on
LibSights, $750/mo on Silver or $500/mo on Gold — libdib.com/pricing
Logistics model
Common carrier rather than owned trucks and warehouses — libdib.com
The RNDC partnership
Announced Nov 2018 across RNDC’s then 22-state footprint — a partnership, not an acquisition — rndc-usa.com, libdib.com
⚠️ RNDC is winding down
RNDC filed Chapter 11 on 26 July 2026 and is in an orderly wind-down; its control-state brokerage sold to Martignetti on 18 Sept 2026. That footprint is no longer a live route to market, and we do not know what LibDib has replaced it with — ask them. — Shanken News Daily, Distribution Strategy, The Drinks Business

Capability by capability

● in the LibDib column means their own public product pages describe it. – means not part of the published product — not that they cannot do it. We can only read what they publish. Checked September 2026 (RNDC wind-down noted 30 Sept).

Getting a product distributed
Acts as your licensed distributor
●This is the product
–We are software; we never take title
Ships and fulfils the case
●Common carrier logistics
–Your distributor or carrier does
Route to market without your own licence in that state
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–You trade under your own licences
Reaches buyers you do not already sell to
●Their buyer network
◐Discovery across the platform, not a book of accounts
Running the business yourself
You keep the customer relationship and the margin
◐Direct maker-buyer relationships, minus the markup
●No markup — we are not in the trade
Purchase orders and receiving into your own stock
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Inventory across multiple locations
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You are the system of record for your own orders
–Their platform records their sales
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Invoicing, payouts and broker commissions
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Compliance
Three-tier compliant distribution
●Core to how they operate
●Checked before the order exists
Licences collected and held on file
●Makers upload licences at signup
●Verified against synced state registries
Per-SKU state registration gating a sale
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Beverage excise and state filing worksheets
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Beyond beverage alcohol
Non-alcoholic and CPG in the same catalog
–Wine and spirits
●All 50 states, no age wall
Beer
–Wine and spirits
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Direct-to-consumer storefront
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●Pickup, local delivery and DTC shipping
Agent-readable catalog for AI assistants
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●MCP endpoint and a public product feed

What LibDib has that we don’t

They will actually distribute your product. We will not.

This is the whole thing, and it is not a small thing. A maker with no distributor and no licence in a state can be selling there through LibDib without becoming a distributor themselves. DISTRYB has no answer to that — we are the software, not the tier.

One relationship instead of fifty

A distributor sells reach through a single agreement. Assembling that yourself — licences, registrations, distributor conversations state by state — is months of work that no platform removes, and it is the thing a maker is really buying. This page used to cite their RNDC partnership as the example; RNDC is winding down, so ask LibDib what their footprint is today rather than taking a number off a comparison page.

Their markup is a service being paid for, not a tax

It is easy to read 14–20% as expensive next to a software subscription. It is buying warehousing, logistics, credit and a licensed counterparty. If you do not want to do those things, that is the correct price for not doing them.

So which one

A maker with no distribution in a state
LibDib, or another distributor. We are not a route to market.
A maker who already has distributors
DISTRYB — run the relationships you have without a markup on top.
A distributor
DISTRYB. LibDib is a competitor to you; we are software you operate.
A retailer or bar buying
Both, for different catalogs. LibDib sells you their book; DISTRYB shows you every distributor who can serve your licence.
Anyone selling non-alcoholic or CPG
DISTRYB. LibDib publishes a wine and spirits catalog.