Well… I had much better telephone reception in Hinsdale than in Schaumburg.
Plus the weather was better… colder, but at least we didn’t have flash floods!
So I had a good chance to actually use the “Square” for my credit card processing.
And now I have a few more things to point out in my ongoing “review”…
1. Yes, indeed it is too good to be true!
2. It was so simple to put the “Square” apparatus into the the headphone jack
of my iPhone, click on the App and process the transaction. Very simple…
especially once I figured out how to set up the sales tax percentage.
3. People get a kick out of signing right on the iPhone screen… especially when they
find out that they can just shake the phone to erase it and sign again!
4. No one even questioned the process… I though people might find it all a little odd
that they were doing things on my phone, and not “really” receiving a receipt
until they get home to check their e-mail or text message.
5. After a full day Sunday, with a lot of credit card transactions, the battery level
on my iPhone was still only half-way used. Plenty of power for the day!
6. When I got home, all of my credit card transactions were right their in my e-mail.
Simple… easy… done.
But here’s my question for anyone who is also loving their “Square.”
Is there a way to list multiple items in one transaction? It seems to me that you can
only take a picture once, and type in a description for one item. That there’s only one
line available to type a description. But what do I do if I want to shoot a picture and add
a description for more than one item on more than one line with more than one photo?
Also… is there a easy way to print out some sort of “ledger sheet” or list of transactions
from the day? Something for the files… short of printing out every e-mail confirmation
that came to my e-mail?
Anyone?… Anyone?… Bueller?… Bueller?…
I usually do a group shot of the pottery and simply use “pottery” I think of it more as a reminder than a record. So the customer can go home and know what that charge was for.
As someone who is based in PA, but sells up and down the east coast I think the Google map and photo are great tools to avoid charge backs from customers who see a charge from another state on their statement and forget what it was all about.
As far as getting a report,you can download a csv file from the Square website with all your data.
Gary, if you log onto the square website (squareup.com), click on the help button. Then click on “using square” section. On page 2 at the bottom, it tells you how to download spreadsheets.
Still can’t figure out how to add multiple items in 1 transaction. Maybe just take a group picture and group items in one line.