Convenience store and fuel retailers

POS, Kiosk, and Device Management for Convenience and Fuel Retail Chains

Built for convenience store and travel-center teams directing store operations across unattended sites with lean central IT teams. Esper automates provisioning, hardware and OS lifecycle modernization, and remote operations across your entire c-store retail hardware fleet.

60%
OpEx savings
Parker's Kitchen
Convenience Store & Fuel Retailer

One central device infrastructure platform for every machine at any location

Designed for distributed multi-site convenience store and travel center locations and made to handle legacy friction, multi-vendor stacks, and zero-IT sites so hardware orchestration and uptime are truck roll-free.

Esper made it so much easier to not only build our product but to provision and ship our tablets to our customers. Switching from provisioning devices one-by-one to their more automated provisioning options has saved us a lot of time.

Tom Falzani
Co-founder & CPO, Lula Convenience

Hands-off management and visibility from HQ

Traditional mobile device management (MDM) tools are built for enterprise phones and corporate knowledge-worker laptops. When a food-ordering kiosk freezes at 6:00 a.m. or a card reader drops its driver during the 4 a.m. rush, generic tools only tell you one thing: “Device is offline.” If c-store personnel can't troubleshoot system logs, the only operational recourse is rolling a 3PL service truck at hundreds of dollars per visit.

Esper provides dedicated device infrastructure engineered specifically for unattended, revenue-critical retail hardware. We provide deep OS-level control, remote screen control with hardware peripheral bypass, and containerized app updates that restore locked devices remotely in minutes.

How we do it: Full-stack control from chip to cloud

ProvisioningDevice ManagementOS-level ControlOTA FirmwareEnterprise BrowserEdge DeliveryAndroidWindowsLinuxiOStvOSOne ConsoleONE APIONE BLUEPRINT MODEL
  • Provisioning
  • Device Management
  • OS-level Control
  • OTA Firmware
  • Enterprise Browser
  • Edge Delivery
One ConsoleONE APIONE BLUEPRINT MODEL
  • Android
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • iOS
  • tvOS

Customer story

Parker’s Kitchen takes new convenience store customer loyalty program to market in 10 weeks with Esper

As one of the fastest growing convenience store retailers in the United States, Parker’s Kitchen averages a new store location opening per month. “Parker’s customers have high expectations,” said CEO Greg Parker, “so we decided to develop the most robust convenience store loyalty program in the region by listening to what our customers want.”

Parker’s Kitchen set out to deliver best-in-class customer experiences across its growing multi-site footprint but needed a solution that could scale as fast as the business was growing — a reliable, touchless way to deploy and manage devices without rolling a truck and dispatching a technician every time a new store opens.

To make it happen, Esper teamed up with a leading POS solution provider to ship pre-configured kiosks, POS terminals, and scanners directly to each location, preloaded with Esper Foundation for Android. Custom configurations let store teams set everything up seamlessly out of the box, while centralized remote monitoring gave IT full visibility and control over all deployed devices from headquarters.

In just 10 weeks, Parker’s Kitchen brought its modernized loyalty experience live across all sites. Customers can independently enroll in loyalty rewards, manage accounts, configure payments, and request replacement cards directly from self-service kiosks. Esper’s solution delivered an immediate 60% reduction in operating expenses by consolidating hardware and automating transaction workflows.

Today, Parker’s Kitchen continues to expand smoothly, backed by Esper’s reliable unattended device management and real-time remote visibility.

“We decided to develop the most robust convenience store loyalty program in the region by listening to what our customers want,” Parker said, “and Esper made that a reality.”

Greg Parker
CEO, Parker’s Kitchen

Trade truck rolls and firefighting for predictable, visible store uptime and performance

A device failure shouldn't threaten store operations, and acquiring 60 stores shouldn't trigger a six-month IT backlog. Your central IT team deserves the control to patch, reboot, and standardize every screen in the fleet from headquarters before the morning shift arrives.

Even if

We can deploy and protect your stores, even if…

01

...your acquired sites run completely disparate POS hardware and software.

Whether you just inherited 50 sites on Gilbarco Passport, Verifone Commander, NCR, or PDI, Esper decouples your software stack from the underlying silicon. You can standardize software releases and remote access without replacing every terminal on day one.

02

...your POS back office is locked into Windows for the foreseeable future.

You don't need an all-or-nothing OS overhaul. Modernize customer-facing ordering kiosks and handhelds to Android today while managing and securing your Windows back-office infrastructure under the exact same pane of glass.

03

...you have zero technicians within a 100-mile radius.

Every update is engineered with failsafe fallback pipelines. If a firmware update or app release fails at 2:00 a.m., Esper automatically rolls back to the last known good state—preventing black screens at open.

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Your Stores Should Run Smoothly Without an IT Truck in the Parking Lot

Eliminate unnecessary dispatches, safeguard your store margins, and give your central team full command over every terminal, kiosk, and tablet across your network. Book a demo to speak with an expert.