The ShopKeep Speaks

Wow.  QuickBooks Online, a product we rely on for the back office of our retail business, has been down all day. When it works, QuickBooks Online can’t be beat.  They’ve got great support and the ability to access our financial records from any computer anywhere has been key to our ability to remotely manage our retail stores.   Their work on software-as-a-service serves as a model for us here at ShopKeep.com.

But when you’re processing transactions, there can be no downtime without lost sales.  Which is why we designed ShopKeep to run locally even if the internet goes down.  Built using a fully distributed architecture, each of our registers runs independently and sends all the data up to our BackOffice on Amazon EC2.  So no matter what happens – your local internet goes down, Amazon goes down, you experience DNS issues or even a cyber-attack, your register keeps ringing with ShopKeep.com!