Self Service Check Out

Topic summary

  • A merchant wants to stock products in a coworking hub’s fridge for self-serve, honesty-based purchases and is open to trialing the setup.

  • They plan to create a new Shopify location and transfer inventory there to track stock specifically for this fridge-based setup.

  • Core question: how to enable a self-service payment method that is not cash (i.e., a non-cash checkout option) within Shopify for an unattended, honor-system context.

  • No solutions, decisions, or actions have been provided yet; the inquiry remains open with the key unresolved point being whether Shopify can support such a non-cash self-checkout method for this use case.

Summarized with AI on December 12. AI used: gpt-5.

Hi. I have been asked by co-working hub to stock my product in their fridge as a sort of vending machine for their clients to purchase. It would need to be set up as a self serve and honesty system. I am happy to trial it.

I would be creating a new location and transferring stock to this location so that I can keep track of what’s going on but have no idea how to create a payment method that is not cash. Is this possible with Shopify?