Bookseller Soft Launch

[alicebentley]

An announcement, and a question

I'm going to be a book dealer at the (very soon upcoming) Foolscap! Ursula Vernon, author and artist of the amazing Digger as well as many other fine works, will be the Guest of Honor and I wanted to make sure that her small press books from SofaWolf would be available. So I got a couple tables, and arranged for

Comments

[polyfrog]

The small vendors I know in general all use Square. I have not done the research myself, but presumably at least some of them have and so I presume they chose Square for good reasons. And the fact that they all use Square is probably not a coincidence.

I use and love Square's person-to-person cash transfer app/service, which is faster and easier than PayPal.

[kevinnickerson]

Sorry, I have no opinion on these.

[acmespaceship]

Moebius Theatre has used Square for box office at-the-door sales, and it worked great. The only part of that job that's challenging is handling the flurry of ticket sales at 7:55. Which Square managed without a hitch.

[billroper]

We've had excellent luck with Square. They also have their market which will let you set up a rudimentary webpage and shopping cart.

[jeliza]

Square is quite easy to use, though I've been sticking with the Paypal Here swiper since so much of my business goes through paypal anyway. But I take both readers, on the rare occasion I am doing a show, in case one gets stupid.