Sell Non Food Items with Restaurant POS

[StitchTek]

I was just curious if we setup the POS for Restaurants, can we still add "non" food items for sale such as Tee Shirts, and other SWAG within the Restaurant POS?  Obviously these are not "menu" items but can they still be added so we can sell them easily in the location?

[TheRealChipA]

Hi @StitchTek.  You can.  That’s part of the flexibility of Square that I’ve come to love.  As long as an item is in the item library, you are able to add it to any of the POS experiences.  I’ve even tested using Retail with food items and it worked perfectly.  I find the flow in Retail to get in the way, obviously, but it still works.

Best,

[StitchTek]

So dumb question do you have to pay for both Retail and Restaurant POS?  Sorry getting into this from the ground up for a food truck

[TheRealChipA]

No worries.  The only bad question is the one not asked!  So, both Retail and Restaurants have free and paid tiers.  As long as you don’t need a feature in one of the paid plans, Restaurants’ and Retail’s free tier should be fine for you.  But if you need something like Retail Inventory, for example, you’d have to upgrade to a paid tier and then yes you are paying monthly AND per device.  Here are the pricing guides (with features included in each) to review.

Restaurants

Retail

[StitchTek]

Okay that makes sense.  since I am also a big WooCommerce user, maybe we just run the Merch sales via the WC site and just have it pay via Square on the backend too...Feels like there are a few options for sure.  Makes sense to "somehow" separate the merch from the food either way, so I can let WC manage the inventory and then maybe use the free retail tier to "run" the charges, but it would be 2 separate sales to the customer...something to think about.  I saw someone else just used a "merch menu" on the Restaurant POS to add the items during the order as well...also an option it seems!  syncing inventory to WC would be the trick but I can sort that out later...thanks for the insight!

[TheRealChipA]

Honestly, I believe that the Restaurants POS would work for you just fine with a “merch menu.”  I see no need to use WooCommerce unless there is functionality there that you just can’t live without.

Also, go to the Square App Marketplace.  There is a WooCommerce third-party app that integrates with Square for payment processing, catalog management, and such.  That can be found here.