Square for street food, markets and events

Street food punishes kit that assumes a fixed site. Signal comes and goes, power is borrowed, and the busiest ninety minutes of the week decide whether the pitch was worth it. Here is what we put in for traders working markets, festivals and events.

Taking payment when the signal does not cooperate

Card payments keep working offline and settle automatically once a connection returns. That is the single most important feature for a trader, and the reason a terminal that needs constant signal costs you real money at a festival.

A Square Stand runs the pitch when there is power and a counter; a Square Terminal Terminal covers you when there is neither.

A menu that changes every week

Specials, sell-outs and a different price list for a festival versus a farmers' market are all handled in the catalogue, not on a chalkboard the till knows nothing about. Mark an item sold out and it disappears from every device at once.

Knowing whether the pitch paid

Takings are reported per location and per day, so you can see which markets are worth returning to and which are costing you a Saturday. Most traders we set up find at least one pitch they were keeping out of habit.

Stock counts and cash reconciliation run through the same account, so the end of a weekend is a report rather than an evening with a calculator.

Getting paid quickly

Next working day payouts as standard, with instant transfer available when suppliers need paying before you have got home. For a business buying stock weekly, that gap matters more than almost anything else.

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