Android tablet
8.0 or newer, landscape, 10 inches or bigger. This is the POS — everything else hangs off it.
Golden Key TPS · SimplePOS
Sells when
Sells when
the line
goes down
One Android tablet on the counter. It takes cash and cards, drives the terminal, prints the receipt and opens the drawer — and through an outage it keeps selling and uploads everything the moment the line is back.
8.0+Android, landscape
2terminal makes
4languages
0sales lost offline
Approved
$24.86
Offline
3 sales queued
The counter
What sits on the counter
The tablet talks to the terminal, the printer and the scanner directly over the shop's own network. There is no box in the middle to buy, power or replace — and anything you already own that speaks these standards keeps working.
Card terminal
Valor or PAX on the network. Sale, void, refund and batch close. No approval can be keyed by hand.
OptionalBarcode scanner
Any USB or Bluetooth scanner in keyboard (HID) mode. Scan a product to ring it, scan a receipt to open it.
OptionalReceipt printer
Any ESC/POS printer on 80 mm paper. Network on port 9100, Bluetooth or USB — the same bytes over all three.
OptionalCash drawer
Any drawer with an RJ11/RJ12 kick port, wired to the printer. It opens on cash sales and cash returns, and on nothing else.
Optional
The grid
Your shelf, in the order you sell it
Hold a tile for five seconds and the grid opens for arranging: drag the best sellers to the front, edit a price, add what you just started stocking. Alphabetical is not how a counter works.
Braiding Hair$7.99
Edge Control$5.49
Lace Front WigEnter amount
Shampoo 16oz$9.99
Eyelashes$2.99
Gift CardEnter amount
A tile marked +T is taxable. One rate per shop, applied to the items you flag, and stored with each sale — so raising it never rewrites last year's receipt.
What it does
The whole counter
Ringing up, taking the money, printing the paper and closing the day — all on the tablet, with an admin site behind it for whoever is not standing at the counter.
Sells with no connection
A dropped line does not stop the counter. Sales queue on the tablet and upload themselves the moment the server answers; the banner says how many are waiting.
Terminals, not typed numbers
Valor and PAX over the shop network. There is no way to key an approval by hand, so a payment nobody approved can never be recorded as a sale.
One bill, several tenders
Cash, card, store card and points in any combination. Every part is collected before anything is recorded, and returns go back per tender.
The paper matches the screen
The printed receipt is the same five sections the tablet shows, over Bluetooth, USB or the network. The drawer opens on cash sales only.
Regulars by phone number
One number a cashier can ask for across the counter. Points earn on the discounted subtotal before tax, spend like any other tender, and come back when a sale does.
The day, counted properly
Takings by tender, returns and voids on their own lines, card batches split credit and debit, trade by postal code. Counted in the database, not summed from the last hundred rows.
One key per POS
Every POS carries its own key, bound to one installation. Shut one off without touching the others; a key that turns up on a second tablet is flagged rather than passing quietly.
More than one shop
Each shop keeps its own catalogue, cards, customers and takings. The boundary is enforced on every read and every write, not by each query remembering.
It updates itself
A published build is offered on the next launch, downloaded and hash-checked before Android asks its one confirmation. Never mid-sale.
Cash without the penny
Where the smallest coin is going, a cash total is rounded to the nearest five cents — the rule the US Treasury recommends, or always up or always down if a shop needs it. Only cash: card, store card and points still settle to the cent. What it moved is on the receipt.
Cloud
The tablet is not where your takings live
Every sale is recalculated and recorded on the server, not on the POS. Drop the tablet, lose it, have it stolen — the day's takings, the catalogue, the customers and the card batches are all still there, and a replacement tablet is set up with a QR and a key.
The server holds the record
The POS says what is being sold and how many; the price comes out of the catalogue on the server and is recorded there. What the tablet sends is never taken on trust, so the takings are the server's figures whatever happens to the tablet.
An outage loses nothing
With no line the POS records the sale itself and carries on selling. It uploads the moment the server answers, and a resend cannot bank the same sale twice — every offline sale carries its own id and the server recognises it.
Read it from anywhere
The admin site opens in any current browser: transactions, receipts, settlements, customers, the areas your trade comes from, and the POS log. Nothing has to be done standing at the counter.
Hosted by us, or by you
Run it on our servers and there is nothing for the shop to maintain. Or run it on your own Windows server, on your own network, with the data never leaving the building — the same software either way.
Card numbers are never stored
The terminal talks to the card network itself and masks its own numbers; the POS scrubs the log before sending and the server scrubs it again on arrival. There is no card number in the database to lose.
One shop cannot see another
Every shop's catalogue, cards, customers and takings are separated at the database layer — on every read and every write, not by each query remembering to ask.
On screen
Four things you do all day
Minimum
What you need
- Tablet
- Android 8.0 (API 26) or newer, landscape. 10 inches or larger recommended — the app is landscape-locked and built to be read at arm's length across a counter. 2 GB RAM and 200 MB free storage.
- Card terminal
- Valor or PAX, on the shop network with a fixed address. Optional — a cash-only shop needs no terminal.
- Receipt printer
- Any ESC/POS printer, 80 mm paper (58 mm works at 32 columns). Network on port 9100, Bluetooth, or USB.
- Barcode scanner
- Any USB or Bluetooth scanner in keyboard (HID) mode. No pairing app, no configuration beyond switching it on in Settings.
- Cash drawer
- Any drawer with an RJ11/RJ12 kick port, wired to the printer.
- Network
- Wi-Fi or Ethernet reaching the terminal and the printer. Internet is needed to sync, not to sell.
- Server
- Hosted by us, or on your own Windows server with IIS, .NET 10 and Microsoft SQL Server.
Pricing
Pricing for a shop of any size
Starter is open today. Standard and Premium are being built and are named here so you can see the ladder before you step on it. Anything the four do not describe is a conversation.
Sells with no connection
Set up by QR in minutes
Bring the hardware you already run
Hardware sold separately
Starter
Starting at$??/ month
Software only — hardware is separate
For a single shop running one POS at one counter.
Monthly software subscription. Hardware is bought separately — choose your own.
- Sells through an outage and uploads afterwards
- Card terminal, receipts and cash drawer
- Customers, loyalty points and store cards
- The day's figures, and card batch settlement
Standard
Coming soon
Software only — hardware is separate
For a shop with more than one counter.
Monthly software subscription. Hardware is bought separately — choose your own.
- Everything in Starter
- More than one POS in the shop, sharing one catalogue
- A key per POS, revoked one at a time
Premium
Coming soon
Software only — hardware is separate
For an owner with more than one shop.
Monthly software per shop. Hardware is bought separately — choose your own.
- Everything in Standard
- Every shop separated, and reporting across all of them
- An admin account scoped to one shop, or to the estate
Custom
Custom pricing
Software and hardware priced separately
For anything the other three do not describe.
Software and hardware both priced on what the counter has to do.
- Everything in Premium
- Your own Windows server, or ours
- Hardware we source and configure for you
Hardware is bought separately and priced on what you choose — a POS with no card terminal costs less than one with two. Everything is optional, and anything you already run that speaks these standards keeps working. Tell us what the counter needs on the form and a person answers with the figure, usually the same working day.
Put it on your counter
Create an account and we set the shop up with you, or ask for a price on the tablets and terminals first. Either way a person reads it — nothing here is automated but the acknowledgement.