We Changed Our App Icons. Here’s Why
Check out this great article from SiliconPrairieNews.com. You can read some excerpts below:
Aromas did away with its old cash register and upgraded to an iPad that runs the web-based point of sale system ShopKeep. Scheduled for release in the app store within a couple of weeks, ShopKeep for the iPad is still in beta and has about 80 users nationwide. According to the founder and CEO of New York-based ShopKeep, Milewski is the first business owner in Omaha — and possibly the entire Midwest — to use ShopKeep on an iPad as his point of sale system.
For Milewski, thoughts of making the switch began brewing around the time of last year’s Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting, for which ShopKeep’s founder traveled to Omaha. Milewski, intrigued by ShopKeep, kept in touch. When ShopKeep introduced the beta version of its iPad product earlier this year, Milewski pulled the trigger. “I was like, ‘Wow, this is perfect,’ ” Milewski said. “(It’s) a lot cheaper than buying a whole computer system with a touch screen.”
Between an iPad and a compatible cash drawer and receipt printer, Aromas spent about $1,000 on hardware. The shop spends another $49 per month for use of ShopKeep’s suite of services. Said ShopKeep’s founder: “People who’ve been using cash registers are really excited about switching because the hardware costs are a lot less” than they would be to upgrade to other point of sale systems.
Milewski said the capabilities ShopKeep enables — detailed analytics of sales trends, mobile access to financial data, the ability to keep a closer eye on inventory — make it worth the cost of the upgrade.
“It gives me better flow of the day — when it is busy, what items I should get rid of that don’t sell at all,” Milewski said. “It’s just making things a lot more efficient.”
Well, most things are more efficient. First-time customers tend to linger a bit longer at the counter these days, intrigued by the new device. It has all but eliminated the challenge of conversing with customers about spontaneous subjects — of making coffee talk, if you will — but Milewski understands.
“It was exciting in the fact that I was able to have a new technology that was hip and cool that the customers would be interested in,” Milewski said. “It’s just a simple point of sale system, but it’s (interesting) the way someone utilized a consumer product like the iPad — which people associate with entertainment or consumption of media — into a practical device.”
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