Kiost
Vincent C. Hoonings running self-checkout at his own market booth
An iPad app — not a hardware kiosk company

Self-checkout, built for a booth, not a boardroom.

Kiost runs on the iPad you already own — no proprietary kiosk hardware to buy from us, ever. Built by a market vendor, for market vendors. No subscription, no staff required to run it, no monthly bill eating into your slow-season margins. Mount it, plug it in, start selling — even when your table is unattended.

Simple, transparent pricing

You only pay when you sell. Nothing else.
Monthly subscription$0
Per-transaction fee10¢ + 1–2.5%
Setup or contractNone
01

Mount it and go

An iPad with a Bluetooth card reader, in a 3D-printed case built for your booth layout. Set it up in minutes, no wiring or tech crew required.

02

Works everywhere you sell

Built for a demo booth. It works just as well for a food truck, a market stall, or a storefront register — same app, same hardware, no separate setup.

03

Customers check themselves out

A product page built around your catalog — a handful of items or a full menu — with the customer completing the sale themselves, card or contactless.

04

Scale a rush instantly

Add a second or third iPad on a pedestal in front of your booth during a busy stretch. One seller becomes five, with nobody new to hire.

Booth walkthrough video — add file here
Filmed at the booth, in the middle of a real show.

Built by a market vendor of 20+ years — not a fintech startup guessing at the problem.

Vincent C. Hoonings has pitched at hundreds of live shows, generating millions in revenue with a genuinely global reach — the kind of firsthand consumer sales experience no dashboard teaches. We ran self-checkout at our own booth for three months and processed over $40,000 through it, with no staff working the register. Kiost is the system that came out of that.

Other platforms chase digital impressions. We read the room — watching real facial expressions, listening to real reactions, refining the pitch word for word until the sale makes itself. That's the instinct Kiost is built on, and we're grateful to help small business owners across Canada, and soon all of North America, sell the same way.

Two food truck and food booth owners are already onboarding Kiost to speed up their own ordering lines.

— Vincent C. Hoonings, Founder