ShopKeep iPad Register App

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The iPad has grown in popularity as a business tool, both for productivity use and for retail establishments. A new application by ShopKeep turns the iPad into a point-of-sale machine, ideal for use by cafes, restaurants and other quick-serve establishments.

ShopKeep’s iPad Register application lets retail establishments enter sales into their PoS systems, and will also transmit information into ShopKeep’s web-based databbase, for keeping track of sales, inventory management, and reporting via ShopKeep’s own back office software.

Aside from real-time transaction recording, the iPad application also prints out receipts (via compatible printer). What’s even more novel is that the app makes that familiar “ka-ching” sound when a sale is registered.

The system has first appeared in a New York Grand Central Station coffee shop Joe. This is yet another novel case in which the iPad is being used in a retail business environment, such as earlier reported iPad wine lists and SMS-based restaurant reservation systems.