Find products fast
Search by name, browse categories, or pin your best sellers as favourites so they are always one tap away.
Point of sale
A simple point of sale for busy counters
Find a product, record the payment, and move on to the next customer. Shopkeepa is built so every sale is kept on record and your stock stays up to date, without slowing down the line.
Corner Shop
New saleSearch or scan a barcode…
Milo 400g$650
Lasco Water$200
Excelsior Crackers$420
Grace Corned Beef$750
Cart
- Milo ×2$1,300
- Water ×3$600
- Crackers ×1$420
Total$2,320
CashCardTransferOther
Complete saleWhat you get
Record every kind of payment
Mark a sale as cash, card, bank transfer or other. Shopkeepa records how each customer paid.
Receipts without a printer
Show a receipt on screen, print it if you have a printer, or share a link with the customer.
Stock updates itself
Every sale takes its items off your stock count, so the number on screen matches the shelf.
Refunds stay on record
Refunds and voids are kept in your sales history, never silently changed, so the numbers always add up.
Cashiers see only what they need
Staff can make sales without seeing your costs, profit or settings.
What the counter is really like
A small shop counter is not calm. A customer is paying, another is asking where something is, the phone is ringing, and someone has just handed you a note with a price on it. A till that needs six taps and a form for every sale gets in the way, so people go back to the notebook.
Shopkeepa's till is built around the opposite idea. The things you do hundreds of times a day should take the fewest steps, and the things you do rarely can take a few more. Everything on the sale screen is chosen with a customer waiting on the other side of the counter.
A sale also does more than take money. It is the moment your stock changes and the moment your numbers for the day are made. If the sale is recorded properly, the rest of the shop follows. If it is skipped because the till was too slow, your stock and your totals are wrong from then on.
A sale in a few taps
Find the product
Type a few letters, tap a favourite, or pick a category. Scanning a barcode works too, with your phone or tablet camera, or a Bluetooth or USB scanner.
Set the quantity
Tap to add one, or change the number when a customer takes several.
Record the payment
Choose cash, card, bank transfer or other, and finish the sale.
Share the receipt
Show it on screen, print it, or send the customer a link.
Finding the product before the customer loses patience
Most delay at a counter is looking for things. Shopkeepa gives you three ways to cut it down, and you can use whichever fits the product.
Search
Type part of a name and matching products appear as you go. You do not need the full name or the exact spelling, so it works for the product you only half remember.
Categories
Group products the way your shelves are arranged: drinks, snacks, cleaning, and so on. When a customer describes what they want, you can browse to it instead of guessing the name.
Favourites
Pin the things that sell all day. In many shops a short list of products makes up most of the sales, so putting them one tap away takes most of the work out of the busy hours.
Payments are recorded, not processed
Customers pay you the way they always have. Shopkeepa does not take the money. It keeps an accurate record of what came in and how, so your end-of-day totals are easy to check against the drawer and against your bank.
- Cash: note the sale, and see the day's cash total when you close.
- Card: record that the customer paid by card on your own machine.
- Bank transfer: mark transfers so you can match them to your account.
- Other: anything else your customers use.
This matters at closing time. If the drawer is $20 short, a breakdown by payment type tells you whether the gap is in cash, or whether a transfer was never marked. Without it, you are adding things up from memory.
Receipts without a printer
Plenty of customers want proof of what they paid, and plenty of shops do not own a receipt printer. A receipt can be shown on screen for the customer to read, shared as a link they can keep, or printed if you have a printer.
Each receipt belongs to a sale in your history, so if a customer comes back next week, you can search for the sale and find the same record instead of arguing over what was paid.
When something needs fixing
Customers change their minds and cashiers make slips. Shopkeepa lets you refund or void a sale, and it keeps the original on record with the change beside it. Nothing is quietly overwritten, so you can always see what happened.
Past sales are searchable, so finding last Tuesday's sale takes seconds. For the full picture of your day, see sales and profit reports.
Letting staff sell without seeing everything
The person at the till often is not the person who owns the shop. They need to sell, but they do not need your supplier costs or your profit. Shopkeepa has two kinds of access.
| Cashier | Owner or manager | |
|---|---|---|
| Make sales and record payments | Yes | Yes |
| See product costs and profit | No | Yes |
| See settings | No | Yes |
Because each sale is kept on record, you can look back and see what was sold during a shift, even when you were not there.
Where the sale goes next
Once a sale is finished, Shopkeepa takes the items off your stock count. A product that was at 24 is at 22 after two are sold. When it reaches the minimum you set, you get one reminder and the product lands on your restock list. Read more about inventory tracking.
The sale also feeds your dashboard and reports: today's sales, your average sale, your best sellers and, where you have entered costs, your gross profit. The till is where everything starts.
Shopkeepa is also built with unreliable connections in mind. We will share more about how that works as we get closer to launch.
Common questions
Do I need a special till or hardware?
No. Shopkeepa is built to work on a phone, tablet or computer. A barcode scanner and a receipt printer are optional extras if you already have them.
Does Shopkeepa process card payments?
No. It records how the customer paid, including card, but the payment itself happens however you take it today.
Can my staff use the till without seeing my profit?
Yes. Cashiers can make sales without seeing costs, profit or settings. Owners and managers see everything.
Can I give a customer a receipt without a printer?
Yes. Show it on screen or share a link. Printing is there if you want it.
What happens to stock when I make a sale?
The items sold come off your stock count automatically, and the change is kept in the product's history.
Is it available yet?
Not yet. Shopkeepa is in development, and early access shops will help shape it. Join the waitlist to be one of the first in.
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