Gift cards and eGift cards for museums

Sell gift cards and gift memberships. Square Gift Cards lets you sell physical and digital gift cards in person and online; they don't expire and redeem like any other payment. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it.
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Payment solutions for museums

How each solution supports museums

See what each option adds to the way your business takes and tracks payments.

Square for Retail

For museums: Connect museum-shop goods, artwork and cultural merchandise to a retail catalog, stock tracking and customer purchase history. Run the museum store with real-time inventory, purchase orders and barcode labels. Square's retail POS keeps stock in sync across locations and channels, with purchase orders, vendor profiles, barcode labels and cost-of-goods tracking. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it.
  • We import your catalog, variants and barcodes
  • We set up vendors, reorder points and low-stock alerts
  • We configure scanners and label printers and train shop staff
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Square for Restaurants

For museums: Organize museum-cafe meals, cinema snacks and venue concessions with menu modifiers, kitchen routing and front-of-house checks in one restaurant workflow. Run the café on Square's restaurant POS. Square's restaurant POS handles preauthorized bar tabs, coursing, table and seat management, split checks, auto-gratuity and kitchen routing to Square KDS. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it.
  • We build menus, modifiers, printers and KDS routing for each outlet
  • We set up tabs, tip rules and permissions for bartenders and servers
  • We configure Square Handheld or Register at each station and train staff
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Square Online (websites)

For museums: Give customers an online storefront for admission tickets, workshops and cultural merchandise, with ordering and fulfillment choices suited to your business. Sell memberships, timed tickets and store items online. Square Online builds a website or online store synced with your Square item library, including non-physical item types for event tickets, memberships and donations. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it.
  • We build and configure your Square Online site and item types
  • We write confirmation emails with redemption details, since Square doesn't generate tickets automatically
  • We connect your domain, SEO settings and analytics
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Square Integrations

For museums: Connect Square transaction data with the tools used to manage ticket orders, workshop enrollments and membership balances, reducing repeated data entry. Connect SimpleTix for timed admission and scanning. The Square App Marketplace connects Square to booking, ticketing, accounting, scheduling and marketing apps so sales and customers stay in sync. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it.
  • We pick apps that actually fit your workflow and test them
  • We map items, taxes and payouts so accounting ties out
  • We handle setup, data migration and staff training
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Square Kiosk

For museums: Let customers select and pay for museum-cafe meals, cinema snacks and venue concessions at a self-service ordering station. Add a Square Kiosk for café orders. Square Kiosk is an iPad-run self-ordering station with built-in contactless and chip payments that sends orders to your primary Square POS. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it.
  • We design the kiosk menu and upsell flow
  • We choose mounting and placement and configure the device (bought from Square)
  • Roots Payments is an independent Square Reseller, not Square.
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Square Gift Cards

For museums: Offer gift cards redeemable toward admission tickets, workshops and cultural merchandise and track purchased and redeemed balances. Sell gift cards and gift memberships. Square Gift Cards lets you sell physical and digital gift cards in person and online; they don't expire and redeem like any other payment. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it.
  • We set up designs, denominations and holiday promotions
  • We connect gift cards to your website and booking flow
  • Roots Payments is an independent Square Reseller, not Square.

Square Marketing

For museums: Build opt-in campaigns for admission tickets, workshops and cultural merchandise, from new offerings to reminders for returning customers. Promote exhibitions and member events. Square Marketing sends email and text campaigns to your Square customer directory, including automated campaigns and review requests. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it.
  • We build segments from your Square customer data
  • We write your first seasonal and event campaigns
  • We make sure text messages follow opt-in rules
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Recurring Billing

For museums: Schedule and manage payments for museum memberships and season subscriptions, including renewals and customer account balances. Bill memberships monthly or annually with auto-renewal. Recurring billing charges memberships, installments and monthly fees automatically to a card or bank account on file.
  • We set up plans and migrate existing customers
  • We write clear billing terms and receipts
  • We monitor failed payments
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Custom Payment Integration

For museums: Connect the payment flow for admission tickets, workshops and cultural merchandise with your software and the operational records behind ticket orders, workshop enrollments and membership balances. Connect payments to your membership CRM. We connect payments to the industry software you already run, from reservation and ticketing systems to access control.
  • We scope, build and maintain the integration
  • We test with real workflows before go-live
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Square Gift Cards questions

Questions museum operators ask about payments.
Yes. Square offers physical and eGift cards that can be sold in person or online. Roots helps configure the customer and staff workflow.
Square includes gift-card sales in POS reporting. We help organize how staff sell, redeem and reconcile gift cards.
Bring your gift-card design, selling channels and redemption workflow. Roots uses these details to plan the workflow for museums and prepare a clear setup scope.
See Square’s official pages for current software, hardware and processing prices. Request a quote for your Roots setup or custom project. Consultations and payment reviews are free.

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