From phone to paper. Then gone.
The screens on this page are examples of what you and your customers will see.
The customer scans
They point the phone camera at the QR on your counter. A page opens. Nothing to install, no account.
Sharma PhotostatShow this code at the counter
4821
Waiting for the shopkeeper to accept…
You check the code
Their phone shows a 4-digit code and your laptop shows the same one. Nobody can send a single file until you tap Accept.
- 4821
Files come straight to your laptop
Phone to laptop, no cloud in between. Big files wait for your OK, and you can pause or stop any file while it arrives.
File 1Arriving 62%1.8 MB/s, 1s left
File 2Big file: waiting for you
You print
Click Print. In the GoPrint Shop app for Windows and Mac it goes straight to the printer, with no preview of the file on your screen.
File 1Ready to print
It deletes itself
A minute after printing, the file is erased from your laptop. Finish a customer and everything of theirs goes at once.
File 1Printed. Deleting in 42s
File 2Deleted 2:02 pm
Gone.
Where do the files go?
Phone to your laptop. That is the whole trip.
A free public service only introduces the phone and the laptop to each other, like a receptionist. The files travel on an encrypted connection it cannot read, and land only in your browser’s private storage on this laptop.
Files never touch a GoPrint server or database. The website is a handful of files on a free host, so there is nothing to pay for and nothing to maintain. The only thing it sends to GoPrint is each shop’s name and page counts (B&W and colour), to see how many shops use it.
Good to know
- Keep the GoPrint tab open while the shop is open. Close it and the shop goes offline.
- Use Chrome or Edge on the laptop.
- PDF and photos only. Ask customers to save Word files as PDF.
- In a browser, printing opens the print window; the GoPrint Shop app prints straight away.
- Your shop lives in this browser. Clearing its site data gives you a new QR.