One checkout, many vendors: split payments for food halls

Marketplace payments let one checkout collect for many vendors and split the funds automatically, provided through our licensed banking and money-transmission partners. Roots Payments is not a bank or money transmitter. One guest checkout can split each order to the right vendors automatically.
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Payment solutions for food halls

How each solution supports food halls

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

Square for Restaurants

For food halls: Organize food-stall meals, cafeteria purchases and concessions with menu modifiers, kitchen routing and front-of-house checks in one restaurant workflow. Square describes its restaurant POS as "a business technology solution built for single- and multi-location full-service restaurants, quick-service restaurants, fast-casual restaurants, bars, breweries, and multi-concept restaurants." Each stall can run its own Square account, menu and KDS. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it for food halls.
  • Recommend the Square plan and device mix that fits your service style
  • Build menus, modifiers, taxes, service charges and tip settings before opening day
  • Configure floor plans, printer and KDS routing, and team permissions
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Square Kiosk

For food halls: Let customers select and pay for food-stall meals, cafeteria purchases and concessions at a self-service ordering station. Square describes Square Kiosk as a way to "shorten wait times, free up staff, and let customers build their own orders with a customizable, iPad-run device." Vendor kiosks shorten stall lines during peak hours. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it for food halls.
  • Design the kiosk menu flow, photos and upsell prompts
  • Plan placement and mounting (wall, counter or floor stand)
  • Route kiosk orders to the right KDS station or printer
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Custom Development on Square

For food halls: Build a Square-based payment workflow around food-stall meals, cafeteria purchases and concessions, with custom software for your operating process. Square publishes developer APIs, including the Orders API and Catalog API, that let approved apps create orders and manage items in a seller's Square account. A hall-wide ordering app can route orders into each vendor's Square account through Square's APIs. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it for food halls.
  • Scope the workflow and confirm what Square already does natively
  • Design, build and test the integration (a Roots service, not a Square product)
  • Deploy, monitor and maintain it as Square's APIs change
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Marketplace Payments

For food halls: Collect customer payments for food-stall meals, cafeteria purchases and concessions and allocate proceeds to stall operators and concession vendors within the marketplace workflow. Marketplace payments let one checkout collect for many vendors and split the funds automatically, provided through our licensed banking and money-transmission partners. Roots Payments is not a bank or money transmitter. One guest checkout can split each order to the right vendors automatically.
  • Design the split and fee structure
  • Onboard vendors through our partners
  • Integrate checkout with ordering and kiosks

Payouts

For food halls: Distribute amounts owed to stall operators and concession vendors, with payment references matched to stall sales, meal balances and vendor settlements. Roots Payouts sends money to vendors, partners and workers by bank transfer or debit card, provided through our licensed banking and money-transmission partners. Roots Payments is not a bank or money transmitter. Vendor settlements and fee deductions are paid out on schedule, through our licensed partners.
  • Design the payout flow and schedule
  • Onboard recipients through our partners' verification
  • Connect payouts to your sales data
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Custom Payment Integration

For food halls: Connect the payment flow for food-stall meals, cafeteria purchases and concessions with your software and the operational records behind stall sales, meal balances and vendor settlements. Roots builds custom integrations that connect payment processing to ordering apps, accounting, inventory and reporting systems. Hall-wide reporting pulls sales from every vendor system.
  • Scope requirements and data flows
  • Build and test the integration
  • Deploy, monitor and maintain it
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Embedded Payments

For food halls: Put checkout for food-stall meals, cafeteria purchases and concessions inside your software, keeping payment events connected to customer and operating records. Embedded payments let a software platform accept cards and ACH for its users inside its own product, with onboarding and reporting handled through Roots' partners. Hall operators with their own ordering app can embed payments for vendors.
  • Scope your platform's payment flows
  • Integrate APIs and hosted onboarding
  • Launch with a pilot group of users
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Marketplace Payments questions

Questions food hall owners ask us before switching.
Roots helps plan seller onboarding, buyer checkout, platform fees and seller payouts. A payment partner provides the processing and money movement.
We plan seller and order identifiers, refunds and payment-status reporting so the marketplace can reconcile each transaction.
Bring your seller types, order flow, platform fees and payout rules. Roots uses these details to plan the workflow for food halls and prepare a clear setup scope.
Request a quote for your business and the setup you need. We review the scope and costs with you before you proceed. Consultations and payment reviews are free.

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