Weird/strange idea. I want to sync 3 ipads with a mac, to display a count of things being made.

My church is doing something called Operation Christmas Child. It’s a big service opportunity where anyone can come and pack a shoebox full of toys to be sent around the world for poor kids to get toys at Christmas. My church is doing a big shoebox packing party, where we are hoping to have about a thousand shoeboxes and tons of toys/school supplies/games/etc to fill them with.
I wanted to display the number of shoeboxes we have packed on a projector as we go. I’m wondering if there are any apps that would count the number of shoeboxes we make as we go.
Our setup is this: we have a Mac hooked up to a sound system and a big projector in our gym/worship area. It has ProPresenter5 on it which we use to display music lyrics, videos, etc. We are going to have three 50ft long tables in the gym that people will be walking along packing their boxes. At the end of these, we were thinking about having people with iPads to give people the option to donate a $7 fee to pay for shipping for their box(es). We thought about using a credit card app like Square, PayPal, or I was kinda leaning towards Intuit-GoPayment to take these donations. In a perfect world, I would be able to have three iPads, one at each table, that as people paid the fee or finished making their box, the iPad would sync/connect to our Mac, which would count that box, and display the total number of boxes made on the projector. I wouldn’t mind if that meant the person running the iPad (or even a laptop if that would work better?) had to push a button to count that box as they saw it finished, but I really want to have the multiple iPads or laptops to be able to send that information to one spot for a total count, specifically, our Mac that could display the total count.
Are there any apps/programs for the Mac that I could buy/download to make this happen? Is there anything in ProPresenter that anyone knows about that could perform this?
Any other ideas how to make this work?
I tried really hard to make this make sense, but it’s a confusing/strange idea. Please let me know if you have questions about what I’m wanting.
Much thanks!
Dan

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