Retail
Keep one-of-a-kind pieces and steady sellers in the same inventory and sell gift cards in the shop or online. Ship website orders or hand them over at pickup, with Payaroo helping you set up Square.
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What your home and gift shop needs
A home and gift shop mixes the one-of-a-kind with the dependable: a vase you'll never see again on the shelf next to candles you reorder every month. Then November arrives, and gift cards, shipping and a line at the counter all hit in the same week.
What helps is a setup that counts a single piece as carefully as a case, warns you before the steady sellers run out and puts the same shelves online with shipping and pickup, so the holiday season isn't run from a notebook.
Gift card requests, website orders to ship and a line to the door all land in the same few weeks.
How Square helps Physical and digital gift cards sold at the counter and on your website, plus Square Handheld to open a second checkout when the holiday line stretches through the shop.
Handmade and vintage pieces exist once, and selling the same piece in the shop and online means an awkward phone call.
How Square helps Give each piece a stock count of one. The shop and your Square website share one item library, so a sale in either place updates that same count.
The candles, cards and dish towels that pay the rent sell out right when a gift-hunter asks for them.
How Square helps Choose a restock level for each item and Square flags anything under it in an email after close. On a paid plan, build a purchase order from that list and receive the boxes against it.
Some lines sell all year but barely cover their cost, and markdowns pile up after the holidays.
How Square helps Enter what you paid for each item and Square's cost of goods reports show profit and margin line by line, with sell-through and aging inventory, on a paid plan.
Recommended setup
The Square tools that matter most for a home and gift shop — and why each one earns its place.
Gift cards are a gift shop's own product. Sell physical cards at the register and digital ones online, and Square says they don't expire.
Retail mode counts each piece by location and handles January returns and exchanges, with purchase orders and label printing on a paid plan.
Put your shelves online with shipping, local delivery and in-store pickup, all drawing from the stock in the shop.
Reward the regulars who shop for every birthday, wedding and holiday, with points they redeem in the shop or online.
Email a holiday gift guide to your customer list, and text the customers who opted in when new pieces arrive.
For a lamp, a rug or a framed print, eligible shoppers can pay in installments while you're paid up front.
In a shop full of small-ticket items, margin by item shows which lines deserve the shelf space.
How Payaroo helps
Tell us how your business works. We'll help you understand the Square tools that fit.
Core capabilities
Set a single piece's stock to one. Your register and your Square website share one item library, so when it sells at the counter, its count drops online too.
Offer shipping with carrier rates, local delivery by your staff or on-demand couriers and in-store or curbside pickup. Shipping labels can be bought through a direct UPS link or through Shippo, so holiday parcels don't mean a line at the post office.
Set a low-stock threshold for the candles, cards and throws you always carry. Anything under it is flagged in your stock list and in an email after close, so the next vendor order starts from a list instead of a walk around the shop.
Returned gifts go back into stock, exchanges charge or refund the difference and refunds can go to a card, to cash or onto a Square gift card as store credit for next time.
Customer profiles keep purchase history and notes, so when a regular asks what they bought their sister last Christmas, you can look it up and suggest something that goes with it.
Add what you paid for each item, and Square's cost of goods report shows profit and margin alongside sell-through and aging inventory. Square includes these reports in its paid plans.
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 anchor: customers see each item and the total on their own screen, and a receipt printer and cash drawer connect alongside.
A countertop stand that turns a compatible iPad into a point of sale, with a card reader built in.
Turns the iPad you already have into a counter checkout that swivels around so the customer can pay.
A pocket-sized point of sale with a built-in barcode scanner and camera.
A second checkout for the December line and a built-in scanner for counting shelves in January.
A compact, battery-powered card machine with a built-in receipt printer.
Battery-powered with a receipt printer built in, for holiday markets, maker fairs and sidewalk sales.
Software and tools
Items and stock counts by location, with returns and exchanges at the counter.
An online shop that ships and offers pickup from the same stock.
Physical and eGift cards, sold and redeemed in the shop and online.
Points for customers who shop for every occasion.
Holiday gift guides by email, and texts to opted-in customers.
How it works
One realistic day at a home and gift shop, with the setup above doing the work.
Setup finder
Answer a few quick questions about your home and gift shop. 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
Square Register or Square Stand at the counter, with a receipt printer and cash drawer, is a solid start. Add a barcode scanner if your stock arrives barcoded, Square Handheld for a second line during the holidays and Square Terminal or Square Reader for markets and pop-ups.
Yes. Square Gift Cards come as physical cards you sell at the register and eGift cards customers buy online. They're redeemable at any of your locations and on your website, and Square says they don't expire. Gift cards can't be taken in offline mode, so keep the shop's Wi-Fi reliable through December.
Create each piece as its own item with a stock count of one and a photo for your website. Because the shop and the website share an item library, a sale in either place updates the count. When a big batch of new finds comes in, a spreadsheet import saves entering them one by one.
Yes. A Square website can offer in-store or curbside pickup, local delivery and shipping. You set delivery areas by ZIP code or radius, and deliveries can go out with your own staff or on-demand couriers, which helps when someone wants a gift on a doorstep by Friday.
Not to get started. Square Free has no monthly subscription; you pay processing fees, and Square sets its own pricing. The tools that make the holidays easier, including purchase orders, cost and margin reports, loyalty and email or text marketing, need Square Plus or Premium. Plan details live on Square's pricing page, and we can help you decide whether to upgrade before the holidays.
Tell us what you stock and whether you ship, and we'll map out a setup. Square makes the approval decision after it reviews your application and verifies your identity and business. Once you're approved, Payaroo helps you load your items, set up gift cards and get the website ready before the holidays.
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Tell us what fills your shelves and how you sell, and we'll help you put the right Square pieces in place before the holidays.
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