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How-to · Opening on Sparto

Open your shop on Sparto

What the Retail shop starter sets up, what to have on the counter, and the three guides to read next.

A shop is sold as the Retail shop preset: one price a month for the location, and a price for each Merchant Display. It is set up with you on a configuration call. Book one from sparto.io/pricing.

What the call sets up

  1. Your location, on the Retail shop preset, and you as its owner.
  2. The starter. On Setup you tap Show what's left, then Start with the Retail shop starter, once. It adds two categories (Shelf, Counter) with a couple of items to ring the first sale, and lets the cashier mark a thing sold out.
  3. Your tax rates, reviewed with you. The starter never sets tax; you confirm the rates yourself. See Tax rates.
  4. Your people, with a PIN each. See Add your people.

The starter is only for an empty Merchant Display. Once you have products it is not offered, so build on it from Products: your own items with barcodes and opening stock. Scanning a barcode on the Merchant Display finds the product; typing a name finds it too.

On the counter

  • A tablet for the Merchant Display, Android or iPad, on a stand.
  • A card reader that takes a tap. See Pair a card reader.
  • A receipt printer and a cash drawer. See Printer and drawer.
  • A barcode scanner, USB or Bluetooth, if your products carry barcodes.

You buy these from any retailer. We pair them with you on the call.

Try it first on the demo shop at demo.sparto.app. Its products are the starter's plus a shelf of its own.

Try it in the demo
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