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Stop renting your register.

Inky Mall OS costs $99 for Core or $199 for Pro up front, then $20 a year to keep the license active. It rings sales when the Wi-Fi is down and pays every booth to the penny. And if you want it, the Inky app lets your vendors see and manage their booth in real time, right from their phones.

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Every feature. No card. Runs on your store's Windows or Mac computer.

Built and proven in working antique malls, ringing sales every day.

The Inky Mall OS register mid-sale
The real register, mid-sale. Scan a tag and it rings.
The whole bill

Here's everything it costs.

1 · Up front
$99 Core · $199 Pro

Pick one, paid once.

2 · Yearly license
$20 a year

Keeps your register running. Starting year two.

3 · Cloud+ If you want it
$19.99/mo

Every register in sync, the Inky app connection, the card reader, and vendors checking their booth from home.

Your vendors never pay a cent to see their booth. It's part of the store's Cloud+.

Hold that up against what you pay now.

Why we built it

We built the register we wished we had.

We come from resale. We stood behind the counter and knew exactly what we needed: a register that keeps ringing when the Wi-Fi drops, pays every booth right, and doesn't send a bill every month. So we built it.

Now that it's running in real malls, the gaps in the market are easy to see. Most mall registers bill you every month, forever. Many only run in a web browser. Some still won't run on a Mac. Inky Mall OS is $99 for Core or $199 for Pro up front, then $20 a year. It runs on Windows and Mac, and it keeps selling when the internet doesn't.

— The Inky team

The counter

The Wi-Fi drops. The line keeps moving.

  • Scan a tag and it rings. No Enter key, no tapping around.
  • Take money any way they pay: cash, card, check, gift card, store credit, Venmo, Cash App, PayPal. Split one sale as many ways as you like.
  • Layaway with deposits, tax-exempt resale sales with the certificate on file, and returns that put the item back on the floor.
  • Two customers at once? Park one basket and start another.
  • Internet out? Every screen keeps working, and it all catches up when you're back.
A sale on the register: four items, tax, total, take payment
Booths & payouts

Month-end payouts without the calculator.

  • Every sale credits its booth the moment it rings: commission off, monthly rent tracked.
  • Close the month in one go. Print every booth's statement as one PDF and mark each booth paid.
  • A payout never goes below zero. Unpaid rent carries forward. It never turns into a bill you have to chase.
  • Rent paid by Venmo, cash or check? Record it against the booth.
Payouts: each booth's sales, commission, rent and balance due
Your vendors

No more “what sold?” calls.

  • At the counter: a vendor taps Vendor, types their PIN, and sees their own booth: what sold, what they're owed and how it was figured. Nobody else's.
  • From home Cloud+: vendors see and manage their booth in real time in the Inky app, statements included. Free for every vendor.
  • One set of books. A vendor sees the same numbers your payout uses.
A vendor's booth in the Inky app: sales, commission, rent and their share
Jane's booth on her phone: sold today, commission and rent taken off, her share.
Bonus · optional

Stock the floor from a phone.

Mall OS is the register, and it's complete on its own. Add items at the register or load them from a spreadsheet, and bring your booths and sales history over from your old system. The Inky app is a separate tool that works alongside it: vendors see and manage their booth in real time, and a pile of their photos becomes tagged inventory on your floor without anyone retyping it.

1 · Photograph the pile
2 · Inky names each one; they set the price
3 · Every item gets its SKU
4 · Send the tags to the register

Swipe to see each step

The register's print queue: tag requests from vendors' phones
5 · At the register, the tags wait for a tap. Nothing prints on its own.
Items from the Inky app on the register, ready to ring
6 · The items are on your floor, ready to ring.
Stocking from home takes a little setup:
  1. Turn on Cloud+ for the store.
  2. Give each vendor an invite code.
  3. They enter it in the Inky app, and their booth is linked. Then they can stock it from home.

Not sure what to charge? The app's What's it worth? looks it up. The app connection runs on Cloud+.

Pro

Move old stock without picking up a pricing gun.

  • Markdowns that run themselves. Set “after 60 days, 25% off” once and the register takes it off at checkout. No re-tagging, no math at the counter.
  • Sales on your schedule. A store-wide or single-booth sale between two dates, or buy-two-get-one, starts and stops on its own.
  • Coupons you can track. Print codes on a flyer and see every one that gets used.
  • Rewards that bring them back. Customers earn points by phone number and spend them as store credit.
  • Fair to every booth. Discounts come off the booth's sale, and commission is figured on what the item actually sold for. Rewards are on the house, so the booth is paid in full.
  • A screen that faces the customer. A second monitor shows every line as it rings, what they saved, and a QR code to pay your Venmo, Cash App or PayPal with the total filled in.
The customer display: each line, what they saved, the total
The customer display: every line, what they saved, the total.
Your numbers

See which booths sell, and which stock just sits.

  • Today, this month, this year, each against last year, at a glance.
  • What's yours and what's theirs. Your income (commission plus rent) on its own line, never mixed in with the booths' money.
  • Sales tax, ready when you file. Taxable, non-taxable and resale-exempt sales split out, with what you collected.
  • Dead stock, in dollars Pro. What's been sitting 90+ days, and how much money it's tying up.
  • Your best booths Pro. A leaderboard by sales, sell-through and how fast their stock moves.
  • Your busy hours Pro. A heat map of when customers actually buy, so you know when to staff.
  • Excel or PDF in one click for anything you need to hand over.
Insights: sell-through, dead-stock aging and the vendor leaderboard
Switching

Switching is the scary part. We made it the easy part.

Bring your store with you.

Booths, sales history and customers come over from your old system's backup. Items load from any spreadsheet. Inky shows you the totals and checks they match before anything is saved.

Try it before you trust it.

30 days, every feature, no card. Run it beside your old register and see.

Your data is never held hostage.

It lives on your own computer. If the trial ends or a license lapses, nothing is deleted. Add a key and you're back where you left off.

Your vendors don't need to learn anything new.

They can check their booth at the counter with a PIN. Vendors who want the app can use it, and nobody has to.

Everything in the box

The whole list

Checkout

  • Scan-first ringing, manual lines for untagged items
  • Split payments, gift cards, store credit
  • Layaway with deposits
  • Returns and voids
  • Tax-exempt resale sales
  • Optional card fee on credit only

Booths & vendors

  • Commission and monthly rent per booth
  • Payout statements, printed or PDF
  • Vendor PIN view at the counter
  • Vendor view from home Cloud+
  • Consignment rates
  • Combine booths, old tags still scan

Inventory & tags

  • SKUs by booth number
  • Item photos
  • Barcode price tags: label printer or sheet labels
  • Bulk price and status edits Pro
  • Bring your store over from your old system
  • Stock from a phone with the Inky app Cloud+

Staff

  • Owner, manager and cashier PINs
  • Time clock
  • Shift planner Pro
  • An activity log nobody can edit

Hardware it works with

  • Barcode scanners
  • Thermal label printers (Zebra, Rollo, Munbyn, Jadens, iDPRT)
  • Receipt printers and cash drawers
  • Square card reader Cloud+
  • A second screen for customers Pro

Peace of mind

  • Your whole store lives on your computer
  • Automatic updates, data untouched
  • Built-in searchable manual
  • Real people at [email protected]
Pricing

Priced the way we'd want to be charged.

One price up front, then $20 a year to keep the license active. One license covers your account.

1 · Pick your register

Core

The lean offline register.

$99

one-time + $20/yr

  • Scan-first checkout — split tender, gift cards, store credit, layaway
  • Booth settlement & printable booth statements
  • Customers, store credit & the activity log
  • Barcode labels & thermal receipts
  • Inventory with guided import from your old POS
Every feature

Pro

Every heavier feature, one low license.

$199

one-time + $20/yr

  • Everything in Core
  • Customer display with scan-to-pay
  • Promotions & automatic age markdowns
  • Store dashboard & scheduled reports
  • Bulk edits & receipt/label designer
  • Weekly shift planner & branding
2 · Add Cloud+ if you want it

Cloud+

$19.99/mo

Needs Mall OS, Core or Pro

  • Up to 5 registers kept in sync, live
  • Sign in on any computer and your store loads
  • Every vendor sees their booth from home, free to them
  • The Inky app connection: vendors see and manage their booth live, and stock it from a phone
  • The Square card reader, money straight to your Square account

Also from Inky: Inky Accounting. Replace QuickBooks: expenses and receipts, profit & loss on real income, and year-end tax worksheets. Not part of Mall OS. It comes with an Inky online plan, Helping Hand ($9.99/mo) and up. See online plans

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Questions

Everything owners ask us

What happens when the internet goes down?

Nothing changes at the counter. Mall OS runs on your own computer, so sales, receipts, discounts, gift cards and layaways all keep working. The only things that wait for the internet are syncing between registers and the Square card reader. They catch up on their own when you're back.

Do I need new hardware?

No. It runs on Windows or Mac, and an older computer is fine. Add a barcode scanner, a label printer, a receipt printer and a cash drawer if you want them. Without a label printer, tags print on sheet labels from any printer. On a Mac, printers connect over your network.

Can I bring my store over from my old register?

Yes. Booths, sales history and customers come over from your old system's backup. Items load from any spreadsheet. Inky shows you the totals and checks they match before anything is saved.

Do I have to use the Inky app?

No. Mall OS is a complete register on its own. Add items at the register or load them from a spreadsheet, and bring your booths and sales history over from your old system. The Inky app is a bonus for vendors who want to see and manage their booth in real time, and stock it from their phone. If your vendors want to stock their booth from home, it takes a little setup: Cloud+ for the store, and an invite code for each vendor.

What happens after the free trial?

The register locks until you add a license. Nothing is deleted. Paste your key and you're back exactly where you left off.

What if I don't pay the $20 a year?

You get 30 days of reminders while everything keeps running. After that the register locks, with every bit of your data safe. Renew and it opens again instantly.

Does my money go through Inky?

No. Cash, checks and wallet payments go straight to you, and the Square card reader pays into your own Square account. Inky records the sale. It never holds your money.

Can I take credit cards?

Yes. With Cloud+, pair a Square card reader to each register and the money lands in your Square account. Already have a card machine? Ring the sale as "Card" and keep using it.

How many registers can I run?

Up to 5 on one account. With Cloud+ they stay in step live: ring a sale on one and the others update.

Do my vendors pay anything?

No. Vendors see their booth at the counter with a PIN, and from home with the store's Cloud+. They never pay to see their sales.

Who owns my data?

You do. Your whole store is one file on your computer. If you use OneDrive, it's backed up there automatically. With Cloud+, a new computer is a sign-in away.

What if my computer dies?

With Cloud+, install Inky on the new computer, sign in, and your store loads. It takes about ten minutes. Without Cloud+, your store file is waiting in OneDrive if you use it.

Is it hard to learn?

If you can ring a sale, you can run it. A full searchable manual is built in, and real people answer at [email protected].

Your register shouldn't be the bill that keeps you up at night.

Windows & Mac · Six booths or six hundred

Not the owner?

Stop renting your register.Core $99 · Pro $199 · + $20/yr