Marketa puts the Square platform in your apron pocket, so a weekend seller can take a Square payment in the rain, hand over a jar of jam, and check the takings on the train home.
A market seller does not have a back office. They have a folding table, a box of stock, and about six feet of counter. Marketa builds on the Square platform for exactly that life: pull out the Square reader, take the tap, drop the item in a bag. When a customer pays, the Square payment moves; when the market packs up, the record is already tallied, so no square of the table is a mystery.
Hold out the Square reader, let the customer tap, hand over the jam — rain or shine.
The tap clears in a beat, so the queue never bunches at the table edge.
The Square reader lives in your apron, the app opens on the phone you already carry, and the first Square sale can clear the moment you unfold the table. Add a helper when the stall grows.
One little device covers the lot, so you never fumble between gadgets.
The cost of a sale sits beside it — what you see is what you count.
Open it before the gates and the stall is ready to trade all afternoon.
At pack-down, the same gate lets you read the day from your phone.
Type it however your fingers learned it; Marketa reads what you meant.
No wrong phrasing sends you astray — the Square account view is the destination.
Illustrative ranges for a typical weekend seller, not guaranteed outcomes.
Everything the day earned settles into a single Square view you can trust.
Reconcile on the platform and leave nothing for the morning.
A Square sign in keeps every market tidy: a helper gets exactly what they need at the table while you keep the rest of the account to yourself. Split the takings clean at close.
Every helper starts the same way, so a new pair of hands is selling in minutes.
Keep the takings a tap away wherever the day takes you.
Read the shape of the week and pick the pitches the takings favour.
Hand off clean figures at month end without copying a number by hand.
Whatever link your fingers remember, it still opens the Square stall you actually run.
Marketa meets you where your memory left off and walks you onward.
Nora VanceFounder & market seller
Eli BrandtPayments help
Mia SolanoSeller onboarding
Jonah PikeKit & supportThe Square reader and the phone go in the apron, and the day's numbers travel with you.
Takings, tips and fees settle in one place before your stop.
Open your dashboard and set the stall up in minutes.
Open your dashboard