Businesses can benefit from adding a retail kiosk to their storefront. Whether you own a retail outlet, supermarket, movie theater, or restaurant, you can provide a self-serve method for your customers to purchase items or obtain services.

You have various options for a retail kiosk for your business. Here is just sampling of the types of kiosks you can offer:

• ATM – You can partner with a bank or third-party provider to place these retail kiosks in your store to allow customers to get instant access to their cash. In turn, you earn a fee for each transaction.
• Photos – Aspiring photographers can connect their digital cameras or media to this retail kiosk to print inexpensive photos on high-quality paper. The user also has options to adjust photo quality, crop, remove blemishes and rotate the shot.
• Job applications – You can allow job candidates to fill out their information and answer a series of job-related questions right from the kiosk. Store managers use these retail kiosks to prescreen potential candidates before setting up interviews.
• Internet access – A popular retail kiosk in hotel lobbies and roadside truck stops, customers can conveniently surf the web for a small per minute charge or fixed fee.
• Bill payments – For those customers without checking accounts or those who need to make immediate bill payments, these retail kiosks provide an easy way to pay for utilities, rent, or credit card bills using cash.
• CD/DVD – To help discourage returns or dissatisfaction with purchases, these machines allow customers to sample select music CDs and movie and TV DVDs before making a purchase.
• Gas stations – With a pump-side retail kiosk, gas station owners with an accompanying convenience store can replace costly print advertisements by cycling a variety of updated promotions on screen for sale items in the store.
• All-in-ones – This technology runs the gamut from pay-as-you-go Internet access to bill payments to downloading music onto a CD – all from a single retail kiosk.