I just joined Square and am only using it as a physical POS device for my shop at a Renaissance Faire. This will be my first time, and it will only last for 4 weekends. Normally, I run my sales through my website and don't use Square (I use Stripe/Paypal).
I've read that I can minimize my risk of my account being flagged/frozen for suspicious activity by notifying Square that I have a seasonal business, and that there will be a spike in sales when it starts and a decrease when it ends. How can I do this?
I've heard a lot of horror stories of Square's algorithm flagging accounts and freezing them, and the thought of having my account frozen on a weekend, sitting at a fair and unable to take payments till the next Monday, is very scary!
In the same family of "how to not get flagged", I understand that high-risk sellers risk being frozen/flagged. I sell board gaming fantasy coins and dice, but I fear that the terms "coins" and "dice" sounds like gambling. How does Square classify what I sell? I haven't filled out a form specifying that I sell board game items, so how does it know?
