Ship It Live — $1,999 flat
Design + build + deploy · kickoff in 24h · limited slots
Ship It Live · point of sale sprint
A till that fits how you actually sell, live in 21 days.
Built around your products and your counter, on hardware you already own, with no monthly per-till fee.
Quick answer
A custom point-of-sale app can be built and taking sales in 21 days from a fixed $1,999, covering a fast checkout screen, card and cash payment, digital receipts, stock deduction, staff accounts and daily reporting. Certified payment-terminal integration depends on your provider and is confirmed before quoting.
The plan
Day one to day 21, written down.
You get this schedule before you commit, not after. If a phase slips, that is mine to absorb — the price and the date were agreed before anything started.
- 1
Days 1–3
Scope the counter
What you sell, how fast, and what happens on a busy Saturday. Plus your payment provider, which determines what hardware is possible.
- 2
Days 4–9
Design
The checkout screen and nothing else, until it is fast. Everything else in a POS is secondary to how many seconds a sale takes.
- 3
Days 10–16
Build
Catalogue, checkout, payments, stock deduction and reporting. Offline-capable, because a till that stops when the internet does is not a till.
- 4
Days 17–19
Trade with it
Real sales on a real counter alongside the current system. Speed problems and missing steps appear immediately under actual pressure.
- 5
Days 20–21
Launch
Live, staff trained, opening float set, and the old system switched off.
What from $1,999 gets you
Everything needed to launch — nothing padding the invoice.
Who books this
Built for
Retailers whose POS costs more per month than it earns them
Businesses selling in a way no standard till supports
Market traders and pop-ups who need a till on a phone, not a terminal
Real situations
Five ways this shows up, and what actually fixes it.
Not hypothetical — the shape of the problem before someone books this sprint, and the specific part of the build that resolves it.
Situation 1
The current till costs more per month than it earns
A retailer pays a recurring monthly fee for point-of-sale software that, at the business's actual transaction volume, costs more than the value it adds.
A custom till built once, with no monthly per-till fee, replaces the ongoing subscription with a one-time cost.
Situation 2
Sells in a way no standard till actually supports
A business's specific way of selling — bundles, custom pricing rules, an unusual product structure — doesn't fit cleanly into any off-the-shelf POS system's assumptions.
The checkout screen is built around exactly how this business sells, not around a vendor's generic retail model.
Situation 3
A market trader needs a till on a phone, not a terminal
A pop-up or market trader has no fixed location for a traditional POS terminal and needs something that works entirely from a phone.
The checkout runs on a phone or tablet already owned, with a card reader from the payment provider — no proprietary terminal required.
Situation 4
Speed at the counter matters more than any other feature
A previous POS attempt prioritized reporting and extras over raw checkout speed, and a busy counter now takes longer per sale than it should.
The checkout screen is designed and built first, deliberately, until it's fast — everything else in a POS is secondary to how many seconds a sale takes.
Situation 5
Worried the till stops working if the internet does
A retailer has experienced a POS system going down entirely during an internet outage, losing the ability to sell anything until connectivity returned.
Sales continue offline and sync when the connection returns — card payments still depend on the provider, which is true of every POS, but the till itself doesn't stop.
The honest part
When 21 days is the wrong answer.
A fixed deadline only works when the scope genuinely fits inside it. These are the cases where I will tell you so rather than take the booking.
Building our own certified payment terminal integration from scratch. Card-present certification is a long compliance process — I integrate a provider that already holds it.
Full accounting, payroll and tax filing. Sales reporting fits and exports cleanly; being your accounting system does not.
Enterprise chains with hundreds of tills and complex franchise reporting, which deserves a larger, properly scoped project.
Inside the 21 days
- A checkout screen built for speed — search, favourites, one-tap items
- Card payments via a supported provider, plus cash with change calculation
- Digital receipts by email or SMS, and printed where you have a printer
- Automatic stock deduction on every sale
- Discounts, refunds and returns, with a reason recorded
- Staff accounts, permissions and per-staff sales reporting
- Daily close: takings, payment breakdown, variance against the drawer
- Source code, design files and 30 days of support at handover
Quoted as one number before day one. A week running long is mine to absorb.
Outside the line
- Building our own certified payment terminal integration from scratch. Card-present certification is a long compliance process — I integrate a provider that already holds it.
- Full accounting, payroll and tax filing. Sales reporting fits and exports cleanly; being your accounting system does not.
- Enterprise chains with hundreds of tills and complex franchise reporting, which deserves a larger, properly scoped project.
Real work, sized and priced separately. You hear it before you book, not at handover.
Questions
Before you book
For many businesses you should not, and I will tell you on the call. Building wins when monthly per-till fees across several locations have passed the cost of a build, or when how you sell genuinely does not fit a standard till.
Other sprints
21 days from now, this could be live.
A 30-minute call decides whether the scope fits. If it doesn't, I'll tell you what would.