Selling with Square at farmers markets or craft fairs? Keep it.

How the connection works

1. Step 1

   Import your catalog

   Connect your Square account and pull in your items — prices, costs, and SKUs — instead of retyping them. For items with several variations, you choose whether each variation becomes its own product. Stock counts come over once you turn on inventory sync.

2. Step 2

   Charge with Square at the booth

   Build the cart in TentTally's Order Builder on your phone or tablet and tap Charge with Square. The Square Point of Sale app opens with the total filled in; once the payment goes through, you're back in TentTally with the sale recorded — items, discounts, and the Square transaction ID.

3. Step 3

   Optional: sync stock with Square

   If Square is where you keep your stock counts, turn on inventory sync: TentTally pulls Square's counts about two hours after each market ends, and can push a new count back when you log a production batch. Square's count wins on each pull, replacing any deductions from sales recorded only in TentTally.

Letting a helper run the booth? They can Charge with Square from a cashier login that never shows your costs. Charge with Square needs the Square Point of Sale app on the same phone or tablet. TentTally doesn't process payments itself.

Heads up on stock counts: Charge with Square and inventory sync don't yet keep stock right together. Card sales taken with Charge with Square don't deduct TentTally stock, and Square receives only the total, so its item counts don't change either. If accurate stock counts matter to you, use one or the other for now.

Square questions

Do I need Square to use TentTally?

No. Square is optional. Without it, you record how each sale was paid — cash, card from any reader, Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, or check — and TentTally's reports break your revenue down by payment method.

Will TentTally change my prices or items in Square?

No. TentTally reads your catalog from Square but never edits your Square items or prices. The only thing it can write back is a stock count after you log a production batch, and only for items with inventory sync on.

Does Charge with Square send Square an itemized order?

No — Square receives the cart total. The itemized sale lives in TentTally, which is where your per-product sales, profit, and tax reports come from.

Does TentTally import my past Square sales?

No. TentTally imports your Square catalog and, with inventory sync on, stock counts — not past transactions. Your sales history in TentTally starts with your first market using it.

Which card readers and phones does Charge with Square work with?

It opens the Square Point of Sale app on your iPhone, iPad, or Android device, so it works with the readers you already use with that app. It doesn't send payments to a standalone Square Terminal.