Using New Square Stand Mount as customer facing display and take payments

[FireandPeel]

I have a situation where I am looking to be able to have staff input orders using an iPad on a food truck and use the new Square Stand Mount w/iPad as a customer facing display and to be able to accept payments. I have been looking all over to see if this function exists but cannot seem to find anything one way or the other. I know you can use the Square terminal as customer display and it seems it also can take payments but the terminal is not something I am looking at currently.

Thanks in advance!

[ryanwanner]

Hello @FireandPeel !

The square point of sale app by itself won’t give you quite what you’re looking for unfortunately. 

The Stand Mount is fantastic, I use one in my cafe with a terminal connected to it to act as the card reader. Because the mount is designed to be a permanent fixture, it does not rotate around to accept customer payments. And there isn’t a way natively to create an order on another device and “send” it to the stand mount in a customer mode.

I do have a couple ideas for you though: 

-look at the actual Square Stand instead of the Stand Mount. The stand will allow you to take the order then rotate the stand so the customer can complete the transaction. 

-if space is limited, you may want to consider putting a third party kiosk software on the stand mount that will allow your customers to order by themselves. I put KioskBuddy (available in Squares App Store) on an old stand and people use it regularly. 

Sorry I couldn’t be more help!