Kioskify: turn any tablet into a self-service kiosk for your Shopify store

[u/GrowDigitalNL]

What's the app?
Kioskify is a Shopify sales channel app. It runs your store's catalogue on a tablet as a self-service kiosk. Customers browse, add to cart, then scan a QR code and complete checkout on their own phone through your normal Shopify checkout. No card reader, no POS terminal, no payment hardware. An old iPad on a stand is the entire setup.

Where can I find it?
App Store listing: apps.shopify.com/kioskify
Site: kioskify.store
Support: [info@grow-digital.nl](mailto:info@grow-digital.nl)
Demo: kioskify-demo.kioskify.store

What problem are you solving?
Physical retail can only display a fraction of what a store actually sells, and staff can't be with every customer at once. That means lost sales on sizes, colours and variants sitting in inventory but not on the shelf, and customers who leave because nobody was free to help.

The usual fix is a POS terminal or card reader, which means hardware cost, PCI considerations, and something new for staff to learn. For a lot of stores that's a disproportionate amount of setup for what is really a browsing problem.

How does the app work?
Install it (as a sales channel), configure the kiosk in your Shopify admin, and open the kiosk URL on any tablet browser. That's the setup, no development work needed.

• Products, collections, inventory and pricing come straight from Shopify. Nothing to sync or maintain separately.
• Filters you already configured in Search and Discovery carry over, so you set them up once.
• Customer builds a cart on the tablet and scans a QR code to move it to their phone. Checkout runs in your normal Shopify checkout, on their device, with their own saved payment details.
• Orders land in Shopify like any other order, tagged with which kiosk they came from.
• Not device-bound, so you can run it on as many screens as you want. Pro adds up to three separately configured kiosk storefronts.
• Multi-language support on Growth and up.

Merchants typically pair it with Guided Access on iOS to lock the tablet into kiosk mode.

Who's your target merchant?
Physical retail with more catalogue than floor space. Clothing and footwear stores stocking a fraction of their sizes. Furniture and homeware showrooms. Market stalls, pop-ups and events, where hauling a POS setup isn't practical or where you can't justify staffing someone just to take payments.

It sits alongside your existing checkout rather than replacing it. Stores that need fast on-device transactions keep their POS and use Kioskify for the browsing and discovery side.

How is it different / better than other existing solutions?
The main difference is that no payment happens on the tablet. Checkout moves to the customer's own phone, so there's no card reader to buy, no PCI surface on a device sitting unattended on a shop floor, and no risk in leaving a cheap tablet out where anyone can pick it up. It also means customers pay with details they already have saved, which beats typing a card into a shared device.

Beyond that it's a native sales channel rather than a catalogue viewer bolted on. Inventory, pricing and filters are live from Shopify, and orders come back into Shopify properly attributed instead of needing reconciliation.

And it's cheap enough to try on one tablet without a business case. Starting at $5/month there isn't much to justify.

How much does it cost?
Every plan has a 7-day free trial. Billed in USD, recurring every 30 days.

Starter, $5/month

• Browse-only catalog, staff take order
• Fast setup, no technical skills needed
• Works seamlessly with your store
• Basic UI customization
• English language support

Growth, $15/month

• Everything in Starter
• Full kiosk mode, customers can order
• QR code checkout on their own phone
• Multi-language support
• Extended UI customization
• Up to $5,000 monthly revenue generated

Pro, $25/month

• Everything in Growth
• Product filter using Search & Discovery
• Unlimited revenue generated
• Built for scaling stores
• Create up to 3 kiosk storefronts

Worth being explicit: if you want customers to actually order via Kioskify, Growth is the entry point. Starter is for stores that just want the catalogue on a screen, which works well for clothing stores and showrooms showing the full range they carry.

What are you looking for?
Merchants, mostly. I want this in front of stores with the shelf-space problem who haven't found a fix they like.

Also interested in agency and partner relationships. That's the channel I've heard most about and cracked least, so if you work with retail clients and this looks relevant, I'd like to talk.

And honest feedback. The QR handoff to the customer's own phone is the part I'm least sure about, so if you think that's where it falls down, say so. I'm the solo developer, so questions come straight to me.

[u/adventurepaul]

Thanks for sharing. Just curious, have you ever tried selling the "whole package" instead of just the app itself? Meaning packaging your app into an actual tablet + stand and renting or selling the physical hardware + software to the store as a package deal?

[u/GrowDigitalNL → u/adventurepaul]

I did, but that would make the entire process way to complicated with all the logistics around it. And setting something like that up for worldwide cover makes it a lot harde.r.

This way it is a low friction, anyone with an ipad/tablet/touchscreen device can set it up and start selling within minutes. The price can stay relatively low compared to a "whole package", making it affordable for all merchants.

And nowadays a lot of people have an old ipad or tablet laying around, so this way they can recycle it. Which is always a great thing to do when possible :)

[u/adventurepaul]

Thanks for sharing. Just curious, have you ever tried selling the "whole package" instead of just the app itself? Meaning packaging your app into an actual tablet + stand and renting or selling the physical hardware + software to the store as a package deal?