Epson America has entered into a strategic partnership with ShopKeep, and as a first step, ShopKeep has certified Epson's TM-m10 POS and TM-U220 receipt printers for retail and hospitality merchants. The joint products are available from ShopKeep today, according to a press release.

ShopKeep's platform is designed to benefit independent retailers, full-service restaurants and quick-service restaurants — with specific features for each type of business, according to the release.

The company's product offering includes a tablet-based register experience and also includes payment processing, inventory management, sales reporting, human resources, accounting and customer relationship management tools.

The bundled product with Epson's TM-m10, gives customers the benefits of a compact printer with modular casing allowing them to switch from a top-load to front-load configuration and the advantage of integration with mobile POS environments, intuitive functionality and advanced connectivity. The Epson TM-U220 tablet POS-friendly kitchen receipt printer is ideal for ShopKeep customer sites with full service kitchens as they are compact, reliable and optimized for high-speed throughput, according to the press release.

"We are very pleased to be partnering with Epson," Mike Sommers, senior vice president of product management at ShopKeep, said in the press release. "Our solution is designed to provide intuitive and easy to use sales functionality that SMBs need to effectively run and manage their store operations. Adding Epson's POS receipt printers, which offer great functionality and seamless integration helps us deliver a comprehensive solution to our retail and restaurant merchants offering them access to all the big business features needed to run a successful establishment."