My Little Shop

Does your child already play shop? Run a real till, take the money and count the change. Add a printer for play money and barcode stickers too. Cha-ching!

Does your child already play shop - lining up toys, taking your order, selling you pretend coffee? My Little Shop turns that into a proper little shop, café or restaurant they can run themselves.

They open the doors, stock the shelves, hang a sign and set every price. They ring up the sale, take the notes and coins, and count the change back into your hand, coin by coin. Exactly the way it works at the corner store - only the shopkeeper is six, and every sale is a quiet maths lesson they don't even notice.

OPEN A SHOP Choose a ready-made toy shop, sushi bar, Italian kitchen, French patisserie or café, or build your own from scratch. Name it, choose the sign, set the prices. Ready in a couple of minutes.

A TILL THAT WORKS PROPERLY Big clear buttons and real money. Tap what the customer wants, take the payment, and count the change out together. It uses real notes and coins from fifteen countries, so it matches the money your child already knows.

TAKE IT FURTHER WITH A PRINTER If you have a printer, they can print play money and pretend bank cards for the till, barcode stickers to stick on real toys, packaging to fold into boxes and bags, price tags, menus and more. The camera scans the barcodes straight into the till - and at paying time it scans the bank card too: beep, approved. The shop can spread across the table and little hands stay busy.

TEAM UP WITH A SECOND DEVICE Got a spare phone or tablet? It becomes the till's handheld scanner. The register stays put on the table while your shopkeeper walks the shop, zapping toys - and every scan lands straight on the order back at the till, just like the handheld scanners at the real supermarket. The two devices talk only to each other over your own Wi-Fi.

RESTAURANTS AND CAFÉS Sit a whole family at one table. Take different orders for each person. The order waits while you serve someone else. Come back later and the till already knows what they had. Print name cards for every seat if you like.

LEARNING WHILE HAVING FUN To keep the shop running, your child has to recognise coins, add up the total, and work out the change while a customer is waiting. They can run reports over their store and purchase upgrades with their earnings.

NO ADS, NO ACCOUNTS, NO DATA The app never goes online and never collects anything. Everything stays on your device - and when two devices team up, they talk only to each other over your own Wi-Fi.

WHAT'S FREE Free to play: one shop, the full till, every currency, the scanner, Team up with a second device, and the ability to print play money, pretend bank cards and barcode stickers.

One optional unlock - The Whole Shop - lets you have as many shops as you want, all the foldable packaging, restaurant tables, and the full sales history. Buy once, keep forever. No subscription.

You'll need a printer only if you want the printable extras, and a camera for scanning. Everything else works without them.

Made by a dad, for his daughter, who just wanted to run a shop.