Instore - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Instore is an iPad point of sale (POS) solution for restaurants, bars and clubs, bakeries, coffee shops, retail stores, and other small-to-midsize business, which offers a range of tools for barcode scanning, payment processing, sales analytics, customer reward management, online ordering, labor management, receipt and gift card customization, business insights, and more.

Instore offers optional barcode scanning for inventory receiving and product sales. Inventory can be tracked, adjusted, and reported on, with users able to set target quantity levels and view when these are not met. Instore’s payment system allows users to accept any payment type from anywhere around the store. The offline processing feature enables receipt of payments without any internet connection, and users can open tabs for customers with stored card details to process payments when tabs are ready to be closed. Customized gift cards can be created and used to pay for purchases.

Labor management tools give the user deep insights into employees and enable the automation of timekeeping, optimization of staffing levels, employee tracking and access restrictions. Instore’s customer rewards can be used to reward clients for their spend without slowing the checkout line, using credit cards or customer names, email addresses or phone numbers for identification. Users can control how many points are offered per dollar for standard and gift card spending.