Food & Beverage
Ring up the pastry case fast, take preorders for holidays and pickups, collect cake deposits by invoice and set daily counts that reset each morning — with Payaroo helping you set up Square for your bakery.
Square, made easier with Payaroo.
What your bakery needs
A bakery bakes before it sells. Tomorrow's croissant count depends on today's orders, the holiday pie list closes days ahead and a custom cake means a deposit, a design, a pickup time and a phone call if anything changes.
At the counter, speed matters: guests point at the case, you box a half dozen and ring it up. Behind the counter, you need preorders you can plan around, counts that tell staff what's left and a clean way to bill the café down the street that takes bread every morning.
The case is full, the line is out the door and every order mixes pastries, loaves and coffee.
How Square helps Square Register keeps the counter moving with a customer-facing screen for tipping and tapping, and Square Kiosk lets guests order and pay on their own.
Pie and challah orders come in by phone, email and notes on the counter, and nobody knows the real count.
How Square helps Online preorders let customers reserve items for pickup during a date range you set, with a cut-off, and your ordering page takes scheduled pickups days ahead. Preorders need a paid Square plan.
A three-tier wedding cake needs a deposit, a design agreed in writing and a pickup date nobody can miss.
How Square helps There's no dedicated cake-order form in Square, so you use the tools around it: a future order for the pickup date and time, or an invoice with a deposit and the design photos attached.
Staff keep promising sourdough that sold out an hour ago.
How Square helps Give each item a daily available count that goes down with every sale at the counter and online and resets on the schedule you choose, so staff can see what's left before they promise it.
Recommended setup
The Square tools that matter most for a bakery — and why each one earns its place.
Checkout at the case with a second screen where customers see the order, tip and tap.
Quick service mode handles the counter: items by category, modifiers for sliced or warmed and daily counts that reset.
Customers order ahead for tomorrow's pickup, and you set lead times and limits per pickup window so the ovens can keep up.
Your bakery website, with online preorders for holiday items in the date range you choose.
Self-ordering for the weekend rush, with pastries, coffee and add-ons on one screen.
DoorDash and Uber Eats orders come into Square beside counter sales, and a sold-out croissant disappears from both apps.
Regulars join with a phone number and earn toward a free pastry by visit or points on every loaf.
Deposits for custom cakes and recurring invoices for the cafés you supply wholesale.
How Payaroo helps
Tell us how your business works. We'll help you understand the Square tools that fit.
Core capabilities
Give each item a daily count — two dozen croissants, say — and it drops as they sell at the counter and online, then resets overnight on the schedule you set.
Open preorders for pies and rolls with pickup days in a set date range and a cut-off, so you know the count before you bake. Online preorders run on your Square website and need a paid Square plan.
Enter a cake order in Order Manager with its pickup date and time. For bigger jobs, send an invoice with a deposit and attach the design sketch or inspiration photos.
Sell cookies by the dozen, bread by the loaf and fudge or granola by the pound, with the weight typed in or read from a connected scale with tare.
Bill the café that takes bread every morning with a recurring invoice that can charge its saved card or verified bank account on schedule.
Modifiers cover sliced or whole, warmed or not and add-ons like candles, each with its own price if you charge for it.
Hardware options
You don't need every device. Start with what matches where you take payments — and add more later.
A countertop point of sale with two touchscreens: one for your team and one that faces the customer.
The counter station beside the case, with a customer-facing screen for tips and taps.
A countertop stand that turns a compatible iPad into a point of sale, with a card reader built in.
Turns a compatible iPad into the bakery's register, with a card reader built in and a screen that swivels to the customer.
A self-ordering station: an iPad in Square's kiosk enclosure where customers build, customize and pay for their own orders.
A self-order screen for coffee-and-pastry orders during the weekend rush.
Compatible scales that fill in the weight and price for items sold by weight.
For fudge, cookies or bulk items priced by weight; the scale fills in the weight and price.
Software and tools
Counter checkout with modifiers, sold-out controls and daily counts.
Scheduled pickups for everyday orders, straight from your menu.
A bakery website with online preorders for holidays.
Cake deposits and recurring wholesale invoices.
Visit- or points-based rewards that bring regulars back for the Saturday bake.
How it works
One realistic day at a bakery, with the setup above doing the work.
Setup finder
Answer a few quick questions about your bakery. We'll stop as soon as we can point you to a useful starting setup.
Tell Buckaroo how your business works and he'll help you figure out which Square tools make sense.
FAQs
Start with Square Register or an iPad on Square Stand, plus a receipt printer and a cash drawer. Busy shops add Square Kiosk for self-ordering, which needs a paid plan plus a per-device add-on, and a compatible scale if anything sells by weight.
Yes, in two ways. Square Online Ordering lets customers schedule pickups days ahead with lead times and cut-offs, and online preorders on a Square website let them reserve items for pickup during a date range you choose. Preorders need a paid Square plan.
Square doesn't have a dedicated custom-order tool, so you'd use what's there: a future order in Order Manager with the pickup date and time, or a Square invoice with a deposit and the design photos attached. Customer profiles keep notes on past orders and preferences.
Yes. Square Invoices can send recurring invoices on a schedule and charge a saved card or a verified bank account automatically, with the customer's authorization. Recurring invoices are available on Square Free as well as the paid plans.
Square sets its own pricing and lists it on its pricing page. Square Free has no monthly subscription (processing fees still apply) and covers counter checkout, online ordering and invoices. Online preorders, loyalty and marketing need Square Plus or Premium, and Square Kiosk adds a per-device add-on to a paid plan. We can help you figure out whether holiday preorders justify a paid plan for your shop.
You apply with Square directly. Square reviews each application and verifies your identity and business before approving an account, so have your business details and bank information handy. Tell us about your case, your preorders and any wholesale accounts, and Payaroo will help you set up items, counts and invoices.
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Tell us about your case, your preorders and your wholesale accounts, and we'll help you fit Square around them.
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