Easy Payments Online and In-Person: Integrate your Local Food Marketplace with Square!

Are you making in-person sales at farmers markets, your farm store, or pickup locations? Managing these orders can get overwhelming quickly, leading to extra work manually recording payments, not to mention balancing your inventory records with your order management system. Wish it was simpler?

Local Food Marketplace offers integration with Square. In addition to our robust order management and online payment processing, you can also easily manage in-person sales with your Square app! By using a Square reader to take payments, your LFM store can also serve as a point-of-sale system for in-person sales.

Learn more about how LFM can help you make in-person sales!

Why does LFM offer integration with Square?

With up to 60% of shoppers preferring cards over cash in the US (according to Travis Credit Union’s 2020 survey), shoppers have come to expect a credit card option for everyday purchases.

With this integration, you can easily manage in-person sales with your Square app. Whether you’re creating orders at your farmers market, your farm store, or letting customers add extra items to their online orders at pickup, you can quickly and conveniently create an order, process payment and maintain accurate product availability—whether you made the sale in person or online.  

How can using Square integration with LFM help your business?

• • • Manage a single inventory from ONE platform. Don’t do your job twice! There’s no need to create a new inventory through a Square store – all of your Square transactions will be tracked in your LFM store automatically.
    • Keep an up-to-date inventory. Once Square and LFM are connected, your LFM inventory will reflect live, accurate product inventory, based on sales in-person through Square and online through your LFM storefront.
    • Increase efficiency. No more hours spent reconciling invoices from your sales at the market; this integration automatically records Square transactions as paid orders in your LFM admin.
    • Increase sales and order size. Shopping doesn’t need to stop with an online order! When customers come to your farm store, pickup site, or market to pick up their online orders, give them the chance to purchase extra items that they browse in person.
    • Track all of your sales info in one place! This integration allows you to gather in-person sales information in LFM. That means all of your info is in one place for more in-depth sales reporting!

Here are Some Ways Customers Use this Feature:

• • An organization with a mobile market can bring their Square-enabled tablet on the go, take orders, and still have the convenience of tracking all those sales through LFM!
  • Maybe your customers have already paid for a weekly farm share. When they come by your farm store to pick up their order, maybe some freshly harvested strawberries catch their eye. Ring up this add-on purchase through your Square reader, and your LFM inventory will also be updated!
  • Searching for a point of sale system for your farm store? LFM has it covered! Use the tips below to configure your LFM store front to serve as a point-of-sale system and take credit card payments with a Square app on a mobile phone or tablet.

 

More Resources to Help Upgrade Your Sales:

• • Learn more about integrating online & offline sales.
  • Read about another useful LFM integration with email marketing platform Mailchimp.
  • Read about a farmer that uses LFM to create a unique “farm share” where customers can purchase credits in LFM that can later use in person at the farm store.
  • A Farmer’s Guide to Online Orders