Getting started
What is Estate Checkout for?
Estate Checkout helps you run an estate sale on your phone. It tracks every invoice, handles discount schedules across multiple days, splits revenue with consignors, and gives every customer a QR code as their ticket. Works offline — you won't lose track if Wi-Fi drops.
How do I start a new estate sale?
On the New Estate Sale screen, give your sale a name (the address works well — "Johnson Estate – Oak Hill"), set up your sale days (today is Day 1 by default; tap + Add Day to extend), add a discount per day if you want one, add any consignors who have items in the sale, then tap Start Estate Sale.
How do I invite someone to help me run the sale?
Once your sale is started, open the menu and tap Share Estate Sale. You'll see a 6-digit code and a QR code. Have your helper open the same app on their phone, tap Join Estate Sale, and either scan the QR or type in the 6 digits. Both phones now show the same dashboard, the same invoices, in real time.
How do I join someone else's estate sale?
On the New Estate Sale screen, tap Join Estate Sale (the blue button next to Start). Either scan the QR code on the organizer's phone, or type in the 6-digit code. Once you're in, you ring up customers just like the organizer can — every invoice you create shows up on their phone too.
What are consignors?
Consignors are people whose items are in your estate sale and who get paid a share of what those items sell for. Add them on the New Estate Sale screen. For each one, set their payout — either a percentage (consignor gets 70%, you keep 30%) or a flat fee per item ($5 per item, you keep the rest). When you're ringing up an item, tap the "Consigned by" chip to assign that consignor. The Consignor Payouts page shows exactly how much each one is owed.
Running the sale
How do I add or remove sale days?
On the New Estate Sale screen, in the Estate Sale Days section, tap + Add Day to extend the sale. New days default to no discount — tap any day's discount value to change it (a typical pattern is Day 1 full price, Day 2 25% off, Day 3 50% off). Tap a day's date to move it (handy for weekend-only sales with a gap). To remove a day, tap Remove at the bottom of the section, tap the red minus next to the day, then tap Remove again to confirm.
What does the dashboard show me?
The dashboard is your live view of the estate sale: total invoices, total revenue, average invoice size, plus a row for every invoice with its status — Paid, Unpaid, Open. Tap any invoice to see its items and actions: Mark as Paid, Edit, See Invoice, Cancel. Use the filter pill to scope by status, and the sort pill to flip newest/oldest. The Revenue by Consignor card shows you at a glance who's selling what.
How do I create an invoice?
On the checkout screen, tap Add Item, type a description (or hold the mic and say it), enter the price on the keypad, set the quantity if it's not 1, optionally tag a consignor, then tap Add Item. Repeat for everything the customer wants. When you're done, tap Create Invoice — the customer gets a QR code as their ticket.
How do QR codes work as customer tickets?
After you tap Create Invoice, a big QR code appears. The customer scans it with their phone's camera — no app needed — and the link is their ticket. They can pull up their order details and total whenever they want. They pay you in cash (or however), you mark it Paid on the dashboard, and they're set.
How do I scan a ticket someone shows me?
Open the menu and tap Scan Invoice. Point your camera at the customer's QR code. The app pulls up that invoice instantly, so you can mark it Paid, edit items, or just look at what's on it — useful when someone wandered around for an hour, came back, and you need to find their order quickly.
Wrapping up & history
How do I end a day and resume tomorrow?
At the end of the day, open the menu and tap End Day. The app pauses — no new invoices can be added — and shows you the day's stats. The next morning, open the app and tap Resume Estate Sale. You're now on Day 2 (or whatever the calendar says) with that day's discount applied. The app figures out which day you're on automatically based on the date.
How do I export the sale's data?
Open the menu and tap Export Estate Sale Data. A picker appears showing each day of the sale with its invoice count. Pick the days you want included, tap Export, and the iOS share sheet opens — drop the CSV into Mail, Files, AirDrop, anywhere. The file has every line item with original price, day discount, haggle, consignor split, and your cut. Open it in Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets.
How do I end the estate sale for good?
When the sale is fully over, open the menu and tap End Estate Sale Permanently. You'll have to type the sale's name to confirm. The sale moves to Past Estate Sales where you can review it anytime, and you're free to start a fresh sale.
How do I review or re-export an old sale?
Past sales you've ended live in Past Estate Sales — there's a card on the New Estate Sale screen once you have at least one (and the same option in the menu). Tap any past sale to review its invoices, stats, and consignor revenue. You can export its data the same way you'd export a live sale.
How do I delete a past sale?
Open the past sale, scroll to the bottom of the detail screen, and tap Delete this estate sale. Type the sale's name to confirm. This removes it from this device AND from the cloud — anyone who had the share code can no longer reach it. To wipe all past sales from this device at once, scroll to the bottom of the Past Estate Sales list and tap Clear all past estate sales — type DELETE to confirm. (That option only clears your device; cloud copies of those sales aren't touched.)