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

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[rono_60103]

SanSFiS (i.e. the parent of Conjecture and Westercon 68) has been using Square for several years for both fan table sales, and at the door sales. I don't know if we were using it the last time we were officially in charge of Anime Conji, so we may have only used it on Conjecture/Conchord sized events (~300 total maybe 100 at the door).

The application has been getting better with each release - at least once you poke deep enough to find all of the neat things you can do. I've actually been (trying to) use it to record even the cash and check sales at fan tables to give us yet one more record of the transaction.

[geekhyena]

I've heard good things about Square, and that's what CrossingsCon is planning on using for merch sales at the convention itself (we're using Paypal and Indiegogo for online donations). All the vendors at the ren faires around here use Square, and they've had no problems that I've heard of.

[alicebentley]

After overwhelming positive opinion, I set up both a dedicated credit union account and a linked Square account today. They are sending a reader which should get here in plenty of time to be used at Foolscap.

Now to check out the Square Marketplace option (later this week).

Thanks all!