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Sales & Retail vocabulary · Retail Store & Customers

Checkout

Meaning in sales & retail, with examples

/ˈtʃekaʊt/nounCore term

In sales & retail, checkout means: The place in a shop where customers pay for their goods, or the final payment step on a website.

In Turkish: kasa, ödeme noktası, ödeme adımı

How it is used

Used in supermarkets, shops and e-commerce. Customers go to, queue at or pay at the checkout; self-checkouts let customers scan their own items. The verb is two words: check out.

Example sentences

  1. There's a long queue at the checkout. Can you open another till?

  2. Many customers leave the website at the checkout because of high shipping costs.

Common collocations

  • at the checkout
  • self-checkout
  • checkout queue
  • checkout process
  • tillThe machine or counter in a shop where payments are taken and money is kept; in US English, a cash register.
  • cashierA person in a shop, supermarket or bank whose job is to take payments from customers and give them change and receipts.
  • point of saleThe place and moment where a customer pays for a purchase, such as a shop till or an online checkout, and the system used to record that payment.
  • receiptA printed or digital record that shows what a customer bought, how much they paid and when, used as proof of purchase.

This word in other fields

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