thread How Can I Use Square Terminal at a Festival? in Hardware Setup & Troubleshooting

How Can I Use Square Terminal at a Festival?

Kmilam77 — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 10:15:42 GMT

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Any insight on the square terminal to use at a festival?

Re: Square Terminal add a festival

JK_Fiber_Art — Wed, 31 May 2023 15:38:02 GMT

Hi Kmilam77,

A dependable Wi-Fi connection via Hotspot or other source.

Extra receipt paper.

Access to power in case you need to charge the battery.

That's the basic items I can think of - hopefully others here can provide some other thoughts.

Re: Square Terminal add a festival

ryanwanner — Wed, 31 May 2023 15:38:36 GMT

Hello @Kmilam77 !

I use my terminal at a farmers market, so slightly similar to a festival just without the massive amount of people. 🙂

I can tell you that the terminal is rock solid for these type of events. As long as you have a good hotspot on your phone (or access to wifi) it'll be fine.

In a four hour market, my battery gets to about 50-60% with it pretty much always on. If your festival goes longer you may want to have a way to charge it.

Oh, one thing: make sure the terminal is charged and powered on the night before your event. If you don't you run the risk of the terminal trying to update itself over your hotspot connection, which will definitely eat through your data limit.

Have fun!