Retail
Square's retail tools give each size and color its own SKU and stock count, check shoppers out anywhere on the floor and keep your website in step with the racks. Payaroo helps you set it all up.
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What your clothing store needs
A jacket in four colors and six sizes is really 24 things to count, reorder and sell. Shoppers try on two sizes, come back a week later to swap one and check your website first to see if the medium is still there.
A good setup gives every variation its own SKU and count, rings up a sale by the fitting rooms as easily as at the counter and keeps the numbers on your website matched to what's hanging on the rack.
Every new style adds a grid of sizes and colors, and a spreadsheet can't tell you what's actually on the rack.
How Square helps Item options build every size and color combination at once, each with its own price, cost, SKU and stock count. A spreadsheet import loads a whole season's line.
A customer is back with a medium that should have been a large, and the line behind them keeps growing.
How Square helps An exchange charges or refunds the price difference in one transaction, the medium goes back into stock and a refund can land on the card, in cash or on a Square gift card as store credit.
A shopper orders the last size 8 online an hour after it sold off the rack.
How Square helps Square Websites runs on the same item library as your register, so a sale in either place updates one stock count. Shoppers can also buy online and pick up in store.
Middle sizes sell out in the styles people love while the extra smalls sit, and reorders start when someone spots a gap on the rail.
How Square helps Set a low-stock threshold and anything under it is flagged and emailed to you after close. On a paid plan, email the reorder to your vendor as a purchase order and receive it into stock when it arrives.
Recommended setup
The Square tools that matter most for a clothing store — and why each one earns its place.
Retail mode is built around inventory, with sizes and colors as variations, barcode checkout and exchanges that put the returned piece back on the count.
Check shoppers out by the fitting rooms, open a second line on sale days and count stock rail by rail with the built-in scanner.
An online store on the same item library as your register, with in-store pickup for shoppers who want to buy now and collect later.
Profiles build from sales, so you can see what a regular bought last fall and keep notes on their sizes and the labels they like.
Give regulars a reason to come back when the new season lands, with points earned by visit, by spend or on specific items.
Print a barcode label for anything that arrives without one, so every size scans at the register instead of being searched for.
Lets eligible shoppers split a bigger purchase into installments while you're paid up front, if your business category qualifies.
The answer for gift-givers who don't know a size, and a clean way to hand out store credit on returns.
How Payaroo helps
Tell us how your business works. We'll help you understand the Square tools that fit.
Core capabilities
Combine option sets such as size and color and Square builds every variation of a style at once. Each one carries its own price, cost, SKU and stock count at each location, so you know exactly which sizes are left.
Print barcode labels from the Dashboard, Square Register or the Square POS app on iPhone or iPad, using a supported printer such as the Zebra ZD411. Every variation then scans at checkout. Label printing needs a paid Square plan.
Swap a pair of jeans for the next size up and Square charges or refunds the difference, then puts the returned pair back into stock. Refunds can go to the card, to cash or onto a Square gift card as store credit.
Your Square website can offer in-store or curbside pickup, local delivery and shipping with carrier rates, so a shopper can buy a dress on their lunch break and collect it on the way home.
Customer profiles show purchase history, and you can add dated notes such as a regular's sizes, favorite fits or what they're hoping arrives next season. Whoever is on the floor can pull it up while helping them.
Record unit costs to see cost of goods, profit and margin, plus sell-through and aging inventory reports that show which styles earned a reorder and which are ready for a markdown. These reports need a paid Square plan.
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 main counter: staff ring up on one screen while the shopper follows each item and pays on the other, with a scanner and receipt printer plugged in.
A pocket-sized point of sale with a built-in barcode scanner and camera.
A pocket device with a built-in scanner that takes tap and chip payments by the fitting rooms and doubles as a stock-counting tool.
USB and Bluetooth scanners for ringing up items by barcode (Square Handheld has one built in).
A USB or Bluetooth scanner at the counter reads hang tags in one pass, so nobody scrolls through twelve versions of the same tee.
Printers for item barcode labels, so every product can be scanned at checkout.
A Zebra label printer puts a scannable barcode on stock that shows up from the vendor without one.
Software and tools
Stock by variation and location, barcode checkout, returns and exchanges.
An online store on the same item library, with pickup, delivery and shipping.
Purchase history and notes on each shopper's sizes and taste.
Points that bring regulars back for the new season.
Sales by item, category and team member in the Dashboard or on your phone.
How it works
One realistic day at a clothing store, with the setup above doing the work.
Setup finder
Answer a few quick questions about your clothing store. 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
A common starting point is Square Register at the counter with a barcode scanner and receipt printer, or Square Stand if you already use an iPad. Square Handheld adds checkout and stock counts anywhere on the floor, and a Zebra label printer tags new arrivals on a paid plan. For trunk shows and pop-ups, Square Reader or Tap to Pay on your phone travels light.
In Retail mode you add options such as size and color to a style, and Square creates every combination as a variation. Each variation has its own price, cost, SKU and stock count at each location. A new season's line can come in from a spreadsheet, variations and all, instead of being typed in one piece at a time.
Yes. Square Websites shares your item library, so in-store and online sales update the same stock. At checkout, shoppers can choose in-store or curbside pickup, local delivery or shipping. On a paid plan, Square Marketing can also remind shoppers who left a jacket sitting in their cart.
Afterpay is available to approved business categories, with limits on the amount per purchase. In the store, the shopper taps the Afterpay Card saved in Apple Pay, Google Pay or Samsung Pay on your Square device; online, it shows up at checkout on your Square website. Either way you're paid up front, and it isn't available in offline mode.
Yes, on a paid plan. Square's commission tracking lets you give each associate a flat or tiered rate, including on items sold. You can review what they've earned in reports and import it into Square Payroll, which is a separate paid add-on.
Square sets its own pricing, and for a clothing store the plan question mostly comes down to inventory tools. Square Free carries no monthly subscription, just processing fees on card sales. Barcode label printing, purchase orders and cost and margin reports need Square Plus or Premium. So do loyalty and email or text marketing. Square's pricing page has current rates, and we'll help you judge whether a paid plan pays off for your racks.
Tell us how many styles you carry and whether you sell online, and we'll sketch the setup. Square does its own review of each application, verifying identity and business details before an account is approved. After that, Payaroo helps with setup, from importing items and variations to connecting your scanner and label printer.
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Walk us through a typical week, from new arrivals to exchanges, and we'll help you choose the Square setup that fits your store.
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