The invention discloses a method for improving checkout efficiency, which includes the following steps: scanning goods, calculating the total price of goods, collecting money, and printing shopping receipts, and is characterized in that: before starting checkout, some checkout information is printed on printing paper In the process of scanning the goods, print out the information of the scanned goods on the printing paper. In the present invention, since every time a piece of goods is scanned, the information of the goods is printed on the printing paper, so the two steps of scanning goods and printing shopping receipts can be completed at the same time. The staff of the supermarket only need to wait for the printer to print the payment information, instead of waiting for the printer to print the information of the goods, which saves the time of consumers and supermarket staff, improves the circulation speed of the supermarket checkout to a certain extent, and is conducive to the high efficiency of the supermarket to operate.