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Skip is a cloud-POS provider offering frictionless checkout apps that let shoppers scan items, pay, and bypass checkout lines at participating retailers. It also builds digital retail products for remote ordering with delivery or pickup and a network connecting tailored promotions to shoppers, serving both consumers and retailers.
Also known as GoSkip · GoSkip, Inc. · helloskip · Skip · Skip (helloskip.com) · Skip Checkout
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026GoSkip, Inc., which operated as Skip and Skip Checkout, develops checkout technology for convenience stores and other retail environments. Its mobile application lets shoppers scan item barcodes with their phones as they take products from shelves, pay in-app, and show the phone to a store employee on the way out rather than waiting in a checkout line. Items without barcodes, such as fresh fruit or hot dogs, can be added through an in-app pick list, and age-restricted products such as beer can be scanned but still require ID verification with a store associate. Store staff are alerted when a Skip shopper enters the store and when a transaction is paid.
The company also sells a self-checkout kiosk marketed as modular, cloud-based and self-installable: retailers can mount the unit in multiple configurations, activate it by scanning a store-assigned QR code, and complete installation in roughly 15 to 30 minutes, with updates and monitoring handled remotely by the company. Marketing claims for the kiosk include full integration, a footprint about 75% smaller than alternatives, pricing described as eight times more affordable, and 24/7 cloud monitoring. The company has also offered a back-office API intended to let retailers integrate directly regardless of their back-office provider.
Founding story
The company was founded in 2016 by Chase Thomason, who served as founder and CEO.
Business model
The company licenses checkout software and supplies self-checkout kiosk hardware to retailers, principally convenience store chains, deploying across entire chains via a standardized onboarding and activation process; the consumer-facing scan-and-pay app is free to shoppers.
Revenue derives from retailers adopting its checkout software and kiosks; the shopper app is distributed free through app stores and the company's website.
Traction
Skip activated its 300th convenience store location in June 2019, including chain-wide rollouts at Enmarket, Cruizers and High's during that quarter, with eight further retail banners being activated in the same quarter. Its iOS app held a 4.9 out of 5-star rating from more than 1,500 reviews as of June 2019. Enmarket's adoption in April 2019 covered all 124 of its stores, making it at the time the largest U.S. convenience store chain using the technology.
Latest developments
In May 2025 PAR Retail, a division of PAR Technology, acquired GoSkip from Standard AI; PAR declined to disclose the purchase price and said it is integrating GoSkip into its InStore platform. The divestiture followed Standard AI's shift away from convenience and fuel retail toward vision analytics under a new CEO.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Positioned as a frictionless-checkout vendor for convenience and fuel retail, offering both mobile scan-and-pay and self-checkout kiosks; after the 2025 acquisition the product is being integrated into PAR Retail's InStore platform, which combines loyalty, promotions and payments for convenience retailers.
The company addressed checkout friction through both mobile and kiosk experiences that fit into existing store operations rather than requiring store redesign, with rapid self-installation and cloud-managed updates.
Technology
Cloud-based checkout platform combining a consumer mobile app that scans product barcodes and processes card payments in-app with cloud-managed, modular self-checkout kiosks that are provisioned by scanning a store QR code and remotely updated and monitored. A back-office API was developed to allow retailers to integrate with their existing back-office systems.
Go-to-market
Sales are made to retail chains with chain-wide rollouts; the company streamlined onboarding so a chain activation could be completed in under two weeks, down from eight, and promoted demo requests and a free kiosk trial through its website.
Convenience store and fuel retailers and their shoppers; reported deployments include Enmarket, Cruizers, High's, Huck's and Global Partners.
Geography
United States; headquartered in South Jordan, Utah, with press communications issued from Salt Lake City and store deployments across U.S. convenience chains aimed at nationwide app coverage.
History
Founded in 2016 and based in South Jordan, Utah, the company operated as Skip and later GoSkip. Frazier VC made a primary seed investment in January 2018. Chain-wide convenience store rollouts began in 2019, and in 2020 the company raised venture financing led by Kickstart Seed Fund and FF Venture Capital. Standard AI announced its acquisition of Skip in February 2023, and in May 2025 PAR Retail acquired GoSkip from Standard AI.
Compiled by commissioned research from 11 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 6
launches, deals, and filingsPAR Retail, a division of PAR Technology, acquired GoSkip, the self-checkout vendor formerly known as Skip Checkout, from Standard AI. Terms were not disclosed; PAR is integrating GoSkip into its InStore platform.
Standard AI announced it would acquire Skip to combine self-checkout with AI-powered retail technology, extending checkout options for convenience and fuel retailers.
From 2020, Skip focused on helping small business owners navigate confusing processes, obtain critical information, discover and access funding, and grow their businesses.
Skip announced it had activated its 300th convenience store with its Frictionless Checkout service, including chain-wide rollouts at Enmarket, Cruizers and High's during the quarter, with eight additional retail banners being activated.
Enmarket adopted Skip Checkout's mobile scan-and-pay application in all 124 of its convenience stores, described as making it the largest U.S. c-store chain using the technology.
Ryder Pearce launched Skip in 2017 as a mission-driven company built to help individuals and small business owners bypass bureaucratic processes.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 11
primary sources listed
- Getskipgetskip.com · web
- Which Fundraising Round Should You Skip? - NextView Venturesnextview.vc · web
11 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Skip do?
- GoSkip builds mobile scan-and-pay and self-checkout kiosk software for convenience stores; acquired by PAR Retail in 2025.
- Who are Skip's investors?
- Skip's investors include Bleu Capital, Ff Venture Capital, Kickstart.