Do I need multiple locations for markets and events?

[MikeGood92069]

Starting to sell at a couple of local farmer's markets and other events. Do I need to set up different locations or is having the appropriate tax rate set up and enabled good enough?

[BernadetteA]

Hi @MikeGood92069 Welcome to the Community! 🎉

I would imagine that depends on your state and city tax laws. I recommend reaching out to a local tax professional for confirmation if you are unsure. You might also be able to find more tax-specific information on a site like Tax Jar. 

Is there a reason you would want, or not want, to setup multiple locations? Setting up multiple locations may make it easier for you to keep track of sales reports by filtering by location. 

[PranaFarms]

The question I have is I am wanting to go to Square Pro, We sell from farmers markets will they consider that 1 location?  We only sell from 1 at a time.

[_Violet]

Hi @PranaFarms - Thanks for reaching out to us here on the Square Seller Community👋

Could you elaborate a bit more on what you mean by "Square Pro"?

When counting the number of locations you have, we will be considering how many locations you have created and are listed on this page of your Square Dashboard.

[PranaFarms]

I meant Square Plus, Since we work farmers markets we are mobile, but never work more than 1 at a time, I want to upgrade but don't want to pay for 3 locations because we work 3 different markets a week.  Also while at a market can we still use 2 registers?

[_Violet]

Hi there again, @PranaFarms. Thanks for your reply!

The pricing for any of our subscription-based features will be determined by the number of locations you have created within your Square Account. If you currently only have one location on your account, the cost would be based on that one location.  For example, you would not be charged for the cost of 3 locations unless you created 2 more locations in addition to the first location you already have.

As for your second question, you can be logged into the same Square account on multiple devices at the same time. All payments you accept will be sent to the same Square account.

I hope this information is helpful but please do let us know if you have any additional questions. Always happy to help! 😊

[Candlestore]

@PranaFarms ;

We have a retail shop with 2 Square Stands, and a few times a year we go and sell at small community events in our local market (same state, same tax Laws).  We take a tablet with the Square app installed and use the One Physical location.  So we can not tell which Location is selling better unless we look at the dates of the events.  But all transactions show up only at or Physical location for Square reporting.  You can also look up in the Square Dashboard about sales by device i believe, this lets us know how we did with the tablet outside of our location at these events overall.   We use it more as advertising to get new customers, so we do not need to track if the physical location or the pop ups are worth keeping to us.  We just use the Square for Retail Free version which does not track Employees or Inventory and Vendors.... we use other software for these activities. 

[PranaFarms]

Thank you, I don't need to know by location, so this will work great!