Retail
Sell each plant in every pot size, take spring preorders online, fill workshop seats and ring up carts between the benches. Square has the retail and booking tools; Payaroo helps you put them together.
Square, made easier with Payaroo.
What your garden center needs
A garden center's year swings from spring flats and hanging baskets to fall mums, bulbs and holiday trees. The same hydrangea comes in three pot sizes, customers want advice in the far greenhouse and Saturday mornings bring a line at every register.
Square doesn't have a seasonal-inventory feature as such, so the setup does the work: categories for each season, pot sizes as item variations, online preorders with pickup dates, workshops booked through Square Appointments and Square Handheld to check people out where they're standing.
Spring annuals, summer perennials and fall bulbs each need their own counts and reorders. Meanwhile, last season's leftovers linger on the benches.
How Square helps Group items into seasonal categories, import each season's list from a spreadsheet and watch category sales and low-stock alerts as the weeks go by.
A hosta in a 4-inch, 1-gallon and 3-gallon pot means three prices and three counts. New staff end up guessing at the register.
How Square helps Set each pot size up as a variation of one item with its own price, SKU and stock count. On a paid plan, print barcode labels to stick on the pots.
Customers load a cart three greenhouses from the register, then wait in line to pay for it.
How Square helps Square Handheld has a built-in scanner and takes tap and chip payments, so staff can ring up a cart right at the bench. It needs a Wi-Fi signal out there.
People want to claim tomato starts before they sell out, and workshop sign-ups live on a clipboard by the register.
How Square helps Online preorders with a pickup date range and cut-off, plus Square Appointments classes with a set number of spots customers reserve online. Square puts both on its paid plans.
Recommended setup
The Square tools that matter most for a garden center — and why each one earns its place.
Retail mode gives every pot size its own count, and on a paid plan it handles purchase orders for spring deliveries from your growers.
A built-in scanner and card reader for ringing up carts between the benches or out in the yard.
List spring starts, holiday wreaths or pumpkins for pickup or local delivery during a date range you choose, with a cut-off.
Run container-planting workshops and pruning classes with a set number of spots that customers reserve online. Classes need a paid plan.
Deliver trees, soil and big planters locally with your own crew, in zones you set by ZIP code or radius.
Gift cards for Mother's Day and housewarmings, in physical and digital form.
Points that bring gardeners back each season, redeemed in store or online.
How Payaroo helps
Tell us how your business works. We'll help you understand the Square tools that fit.
Core capabilities
Add a hydrangea once and give it variations for 1-gallon, 3-gallon and 5-gallon pots, each with its own price, cost, SKU and stock count. Staff pick the size at checkout or scan the label and the right price comes up.
List items on your Square website as preorders for pickup or local delivery during future dates and hours you set, with a cut-off for orders. That's how you sell tomato starts in March for pickup in May. Preorders need a paid Square plan.
Run workshops and classes through Square Appointments: set the number of spots, assign an instructor and let customers reserve online, one-time or recurring. Classes need a paid plan, and changing a class's date or time cancels and refunds existing bookings.
Group items into categories such as spring annuals, perennials, fall bulbs and holiday decor. Sales by category then show how each season sold, which is what you'll want in hand when you plan next year's orders.
Your Square website can offer in-store or curbside pickup and local delivery by your own staff or on-demand couriers, in zones you set by ZIP code or radius. Trees and pallets of soil are a job for your own crew.
Record what you paid your growers and cost of goods reports show profit and margin by item, while aging inventory points to the plants that have sat on the bench too long. Cost reports are part of Square's paid plans.
Hardware options
You don't need every device. Start with what matches where you take payments — and add more later.
A pocket-sized point of sale with a built-in barcode scanner and camera.
Built-in scanner and tap-and-chip checkout for the greenhouse floor. Check that your Wi-Fi reaches the far benches.
A countertop point of sale with two touchscreens: one for your team and one that faces the customer.
At the main checkout, staff ring up flats and bags of soil while customers watch the total on the second screen.
A compact, battery-powered card machine with a built-in receipt printer.
Runs on its own battery and prints receipts, so it can work a parking-lot tent or a weekend plant sale.
A small Bluetooth card reader that pairs with your phone or tablet.
Pairs with your phone or tablet for farmers markets and off-site plant sales.
Software and tools
Items by pot size, stock by location, barcode checkout and vendor orders.
Online preorders, pickup and local delivery from the same stock.
Workshops and classes with limited spots, booked online.
Rewards for gardeners who shop every spring and fall.
An email when the spring stock lands, and texts for customers who agreed to get them.
How it works
One realistic day at a garden center, with the setup above doing the work.
Setup finder
Answer a few quick questions about your garden center. 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 setup pairs Square Register at the main checkout with Square Handheld for the greenhouse and yard, since Handheld has a scanner built in. Square Stand is an option if you'd rather use an iPad, Square Terminal handles a parking-lot tent with its built-in printer and Square Reader or Tap to Pay on a phone covers off-site plant sales.
Not as a separate feature, and Square's garden page doesn't describe one. Garden centers handle seasons with everyday tools: categories for each season's stock, spreadsheet imports when new stock arrives, low-stock alerts and online preorders that set the dates and hours an item is available for pickup, which need a paid plan. Category sales reports then show how each season did.
Yes. Create the plant once and add each pot size as a variation with its own price, cost, SKU and stock count. Staff pick the size at checkout or scan a barcode label, and on a paid plan you can print those labels from the Dashboard, Square Register or the Square POS app on an iPhone or iPad.
Yes, through Square Appointments on a paid plan. You set the number of spots, assign an instructor and run one-time or recurring classes that customers reserve online. Classes can't use the waitlist or booking through Google, Instagram or Facebook. Changing a class's date or time cancels and refunds everyone already booked.
Handheld needs Wi-Fi, so check that your signal reaches every greenhouse and the yard. If the connection drops, Square hardware can keep taking card payments offline and process them once it reconnects. Square recommends reconnecting within 24 hours, and you're responsible for offline payments that are later declined, expired or disputed. Tap to Pay, gift cards and Afterpay don't work offline.
Square sets its own prices, and what a garden center pays mostly depends on whether the busy season calls for paid features. Square Free skips the monthly subscription but still carries processing fees. Online preorders, class booking, label printing, purchase orders, cost reports and loyalty need Square Plus or Premium. Look up current plans on Square's pricing page, then let us help you work out whether spring alone justifies the upgrade.
Start before the rush, not during it. Square checks each applicant's identity and business before approving an account, and a request for a photo ID can add a business day or two. Meanwhile, tell Payaroo about your greenhouses, pot sizes and workshops. We'll help you import items, set up variations and get Handheld working on the floor.
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Tell us how a spring Saturday runs at your place, from the first flat to the last delivery, and we'll help you plan the setup.
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