For small-town main streets
Stop paying credit card fees out of your own register.
MainStreet Checkout is a full retail system where the processing cost on credit cards rides along with the buyer's total — not yours. We take a flat 1% out of the sale. That's it. No statements you can't read, no surprise line items.
Straight talk: card rules forbid surcharging debit cards, so those swipes still cost you processing. Roughly 4 in 10 in-person card payments are debit. We eliminate the fee on credit and keep it as low as we can everywhere else.
Takes about 10 minutes. No contracts, no monthly software bill.
See what you're handing over now.
Most small shops pay somewhere around 2.9% plus 30¢ a swipe, straight out of the sale. Slide over to your month and watch what changes.
What do you run through cards each month?
$15,000
- Fees you eat today
- -$615.00
- Our 1% platform fee
- -$150.00
- Back in your pocket
- +$465.00/mo
Compared with a typical 2.9% + 30¢ card rate on a $25.00 average ticket. Card processing is passed to the buyer as a clearly labeled line item; our 1% comes out of the sale.
Where the money goes on a $100 sale
The buyer pays
$111.50
$100 item + $8.25 tax + $3.25 credit surcharge (3%, the network cap), spelled out on the receipt.
Platform fee
$1.08
1% of the sale, taken out of the sale. Nothing added onto the customer.
You keep
$107.17
Item plus tax, minus our 1%. On a credit sale the processing cost never touches your side.
Built for whatever you sell
Shops & retail
SKUs, stock counts, low-stock nudges, barcode-friendly item names.
Cafes & kitchens
Modifiers, sizes, add-ons, and tipping right on the checkout screen.
Salons & service shops
Service menus with durations, no inventory to babysit.
A whole shop's worth of tools
It started as a fairer way to take cards. It's now the full counter: inventory, booth vendors, payouts, labels, reporting, and someone to ask when you get stuck.
Booth vendors, handled
Antique malls, flea markets, consignment racks: give each vendor a booth, set their split and rent, and every sale posts to their ledger the second it rings up.
Vendor payouts in minutes
Vendors set themselves up in two minutes and choose instant to a debit card or free standard to their bank. Rent comes out automatically or gets billed separately — your call.
Scan with the camera you already own
Ring up and look up items by barcode using a phone or tablet camera — no extra scanner needed, though we support those too.
Print your own barcodes
Items without a UPC get a store barcode and printable shelf labels, so everything scans the same at the counter.
Sales history that actually explains itself
Every ticket, item, fee, tip, and booth split — searchable, charted by day and hour, and exportable for your bookkeeper.
Help built for real people
A plain-English help center plus a support assistant that can see your setup and answer questions about your shop, not generic software.
Your register should work for you.
Answer a handful of plain-English questions and walk out with a working checkout, your item list, and a receipt your customers understand.
Start my setup