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Discovery & specification
We broke the product into detailed epics — checkout, receipts, settlement, payment terminals, customers, and settings — plus shared validation rules and a business/technical glossary.
Case study · LANARS × Shoplabs
Retail POSiPad CheckoutNorway
One iPad app that runs checkout, receipts, and the day's books for independent stores
Connected to certified Nets payment terminals, barcode scanners, and receipt printers, with card, Vipps, gift cards, and store credit all handled in the app.
Project overview
Everything a store needs at checkout
Shoplabs set out to give small, independent retailers a point-of-sale that covers the full sales day.
LANARS partnered with Shoplabs on the detailed functional specification — checkout, receipts, settlement, payment terminals, customers, and settings — and carried it through implementation and a dedicated QA test strategy.
The result is an iPad-based till that pairs with certified Nets payment terminals, barcode scanners, and receipt printers, and that a store can connect to its backoffice with a single one-time connection key.
Approach
How we approached Shoplabs end-to-end
LANARS worked alongside the Shoplabs team from detailed functional specification through implementation and quality assurance.
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Interaction design
We specified every screen and flow against the agreed requirements, from the product grid and cart to the discount, park-sale, and returns dialogs.
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Development & QA
We built and tested the till against the specification, backed by a dedicated test strategy, so checkout, receipts, and settlement hold up on a real shop floor.
Solution
Closer look at the app
At the centre of Shoplabs is a single iPad checkout that browses the product catalogue by category, links a sale to a customer, and applies discounts — a percentage or a fixed amount — right at the till.
Every sale can be paid with a card or Vipps through a certified Nets terminal, cash, a gift card, or store credit, and split across more than one method. A sale can also be parked for later or registered as a customer loan instead of paid immediately.
- Flexible checkout & discountsStaff search or browse the catalogue by category, add new products on the fly, adjust quantities, and apply manual or customer-linked discounts before taking payment.
- Every way to payCard and Vipps through a certified Nets terminal, cash, gift cards, and store credit — with support for splitting a single sale across several payment methods.
- Receipts, exchanges & returnsEvery sale produces a receipt that can be emailed, texted, printed, or skipped, and can later be searched, exchanged, or returned item by item.
- Day-end settlementA daily settlement totals sales by payment method and reconciles the cash float, so closing the till also closes the books.
Inside the app
The app screen by screen
Four real screens from the Shoplabs till — from ringing up a sale to closing out the day.
Checkout
Staff search the catalogue, browse by category, and build a sale — with a customer optionally linked to the transaction.
Payment
Card, cash, Vipps, gift card, or store credit — split across methods when a customer pays part now and part later.
Receipts & returns
Every receipt can be searched, and items can be selected individually for an exchange or return.
Day-end settlement
Closing the day totals sales by payment method, reconciles the cash float, and produces the day's settlement.
Since we've started our collaboration, things have just gotten better
Ole Marius Berg, Shoplabs CEO
Tech & tools
- Nets Payment Terminals
- Vipps
- Card & Gift Card Payments
- Barcode Scanners
- Receipt Printing
- iPad POS
- Bluetooth Device Pairing
- Cloud Backoffice
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