Ontario Liquor Licence Leads — New Applications & Issued

Fresh Ontario liquor licence leads — businesses about to open, before your competitors call them.

Every bar, restaurant, brewery, and lounge opening in Ontario must get a liquor licence from the AGCO (Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario). Each new application is posted publicly weeks before the doors open. This Actor turns that public record into a clean, deduplicated lead list — business name, address, licence type, status, and date — so you can reach new hospitality businesses first.

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Who it's for

If you sell to new bars and restaurants in Ontario, these are your leads the moment they appear:

• 🧾 POS & payment processors — get in before they pick a system.
• 🛡️ Insurance brokers — liquor liability, property, and business coverage.
• 🍷 Food & beverage distributors / suppliers — make the supplier shortlist early.
• 🧹 Commercial cleaners & facilities services — new venues need recurring contracts.
• 📣 Agencies & B2B services — signage, uniforms, marketing, accounting, design.

A new liquor licence is one of the earliest public signals that a business is opening — earlier than a storefront, a phone number, or a Google listing.

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Two lead sources, one clean feed

The Actor pulls from two official AGCO feeds and you choose which with a single input:

Source	What it captures	Why it matters
🆕 New applications	Licences currently in the mandatory public-notice window	Businesses about to open. The freshest possible leads — they're not open yet.
✅ Recently issued	Licences issued in the last N days	Businesses that just opened and are actively buying and setting up.

Why objection_deadline is your best timing signal

New-application records include an objection deadline — the date the public-notice period ends. That date is your timing cue:

A near deadline = the business is opening soon = perfect time to reach out.

Sort by it to prioritize the venues opening next, and time your outreach so you're the first vendor in the door.

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Example output

One JSON record per licence. Missing source fields are null — values are never invented.

business_name	street	city	postal_code	licence_type	status	date	date_label
Plaza Sushi	35 QUEEN ST E	Cambridge	N3C 2A7	Liquor Sales Licence	Application in progress (public notice)	2026-07-09	objection_deadline
The Barber's Den	17 JAMES ST W	Orillia	L3V 8A6	Liquor Sales Licence	Application in progress (public notice)	2026-07-19	objection_deadline
Contrada Restaurant	537 COLLEGE ST	Toronto	M6G 1A9	Liquor Sales Licence	Active	2026-07-06	issue_date

date is always labelled so you know what it means: objection_deadline for applications (the AGCO feed does not publish the filing date), or issue_date for issued licences.

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
max_items	integer	100	Max records to return across all selected sources.
status_filter	select	both	applications, issued, or both.
issued_since_days	integer	30	For issued licences, keep only those issued within the last N days.
only_new	boolean	false	Return only licences not seen in previous runs (great for daily runs into a CRM).

{
  "max_items": 100,
  "status_filter": "both",
  "issued_since_days": 30,
  "only_new": true
}

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Official, compliant data

This Actor uses official AGCO open data, published by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario under the Open Government Licence – Ontario. It reads the public open-data feeds directly — no logins, no personal data, no grey-area scraping. Data © King's Printer for Ontario. This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the AGCO.

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FAQ

How fresh is the data? The AGCO refreshes these open-data feeds regularly (typically daily on business days). Each run pulls the current published feed, so you always get the latest snapshot. New applications appear as soon as they enter the public-notice window — well before the business opens.

How do I get only new leads each day? Set only_new: true and schedule the Actor to run daily (Apify Console → your Actor → Schedules). The Actor remembers every licence it has already delivered in a persistent key-value store and returns only licences it hasn't seen before — so each day you get just the new openings, with no duplicates to filter.

How do I send leads to Google Sheets, a CRM, or a webhook? Use Apify integrations (Actor run → Integrations, or Settings → Integrations):

• Google Sheets — auto-append every new record to a spreadsheet.
• Webhook — POST new results to your CRM, Zapier/Make, or Slack on each run.
• API / exports — pull the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Apify API.

Pair only_new: true + a daily schedule + a Google Sheets or webhook integration to get a hands-off pipeline of brand-new Ontario hospitality leads.

Which regions are covered? All of Ontario, Canada — every municipality where the AGCO issues liquor licences.

Does it cover licence types beyond restaurants and bars? Yes — the feed includes all liquor sales licences (restaurants, bars, lounges, hotels, clubs, and similar establishments), plus any endorsements on issued licences.