thread Re: Charging for each location in Online Store

Charging for each location

findthecrumbs — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:03:52 GMT

Why do I have to pay for each location? I am a 1 person home bakery. I attend farmers markets and have a couple places for pickups. I used to be able to have customers pick a location and available date for pickups. Now I would have to pay $49 for each location. I may not even make $50,000 in sales for the year. This is not an expense I can afford. Is there a way around this? I may have to look for a new platform for my website and payment processer if this isn't resolved.

Re: Charging for each location

schaefferjosh — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:29:25 GMT

What part specifically within the plus plan do you need? You can have multiple locations all under the free square plan and then set each up for pickup via fulfilment settings, last I knew. We had 5 locations up until the fall of last year on the free tier plan, as we do 3 farmers markets a week, so it benefited us for reporting, but we ended up cutting it down to one to consolidate.

Re: Charging for each location

findthecrumbs — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:23:33 GMT

On square plus I have to pay $49 to add each location that I sell at or that I have a drop off at. If I drop down to the free plan I loose my custom domain and would have to use the square site. I'm already paying $50 for my plan, if I added my markets and drop off locations to my website I'd have to pay an additional $196 a month. That's unacceptable for how small my business is.

Re: Charging for each location

schaefferjosh — Sun, 10 May 2026 02:08:55 GMT

I don't disagree with the cost; it is absolutely a lot when that's all you are trying to do. One option we do is just have them put in the notes which market they would like it picked up at, and the date.

The only other thing I can suggest is that if the custom domain is keeping you from switching to free to accomplish this, then I would look into a domain redirect. This would allow you to use the custom domain, and then it would just forward to the free Square site URL. This would allow you to advertise your custom domain and allow you to drop to the free plan and add your locations.

I will add that not every registrar can do redirects, but I believe all the main ones do (Namecheap, GoDaddy, Porkbun, etc.). If you bought it through square themselves, then I don't think you could. So it all depends on who you got it from.