Payments for Beverage Brands

Packaged food and beverage brands sell direct online, at pop-ups and wholesale to retailers and distributors. Square covers online and pop-up sales and invoices; B2B card savings, ACH and ERP connections come from Roots.
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Payment solutions for packaged food & beverage brands

How these solutions fit packaged food & beverage brands

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

Square Online (websites)

For packaged food & beverage brands: Give customers an online storefront for packaged foods, farmers-market sales and wholesale orders, with ordering and fulfillment choices suited to your business. Square says sellers can "create and customize an eCommerce website that fits your brand with the all-in-one website platform" and "sell online and offer in-store pickup, shipping, and local delivery." A direct online store ships product and syncs with pop-up sales. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it for packaged food brands.
  • Plan your catalog, categories and product photos
  • Set up shipping zones, pickup and local delivery rules
  • Connect your domain and set basic SEO for each product
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Square for Retail

For packaged food & beverage brands: Connect packaged foods, farmers-market sales and wholesale orders to a retail catalog, stock tracking and customer purchase history. Square describes Square Retail POS as "the all-in-one system built to manage inventory, sales, and customer data." Pop-ups and brand shops track SKUs and stock. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it for packaged food brands.
  • Import and clean up your catalog, including variants and barcodes
  • Set up vendors, reorder points and purchase orders
  • Connect in-store and online stock so you don't oversell
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Square Invoices

For packaged food & beverage brands: Send itemized invoices for packaged foods, farmers-market sales and wholesale orders and track deposits, due dates and outstanding balances. Square says you can "send unlimited invoices with flexible payment options" and "set up recurring invoices to send on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly schedule." Wholesale buyers get invoices with ACH options. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, sets it up and supports it for packaged food brands.
  • Build estimate, contract and invoice templates with your terms
  • Set deposit and balance rules that match your booking policy
  • Connect invoices to your customer directory and accounting
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Level 2/3 Processing

For packaged food & beverage brands: Include purchase-order references and itemized invoice data for business-card purchases of packaged foods, farmers-market sales and wholesale orders. When businesses pay with corporate or purchasing cards, passing Level 2 and Level 3 data (tax amount, PO number and line items) can qualify transactions for lower interchange rates. Retail and distributor buyers on commercial cards can qualify for lower rates with Level 2 and 3 data.
  • Review your commercial-card mix to estimate savings
  • Configure the gateway or terminal to send enhanced data
  • Test qualification and monitor downgrades
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ACH Payments

For packaged food & beverage brands: Offer bank-account payments for packaged foods, farmers-market sales and wholesale orders, with authorization and invoice matching built into the workflow. ACH lets customers pay directly from a bank account, which usually costs less than cards on large invoices and recurring accounts. Wholesale terms are paid by ACH.
  • Set up ACH authorization forms and online payment pages
  • Configure verification and return handling
  • Connect ACH to your invoicing and accounting
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E-commerce Payments

For packaged food & beverage brands: Add online checkout for packaged foods, farmers-market sales and wholesale orders, with order references carried through payment and fulfillment. Roots connects online stores and ordering sites to card processing with tokenized cards on file, fraud screening and support for shipped and scheduled orders. DTC checkout with fraud tools supports higher-volume online sales.
  • Connect processing to your cart or custom site
  • Set fraud rules for your order profile and shipping regions
  • Test checkout, refunds and failed-payment flows
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Recurring Billing

For packaged food & beverage brands: Schedule and manage payments for food subscriptions and recurring wholesale deliveries, including renewals and customer account balances. Roots sets up recurring billing so memberships, clubs and subscriptions charge on schedule, with tokenized cards and automatic retries. Subscribe-and-save orders renew automatically.
  • Design plans, billing dates and cancellation terms
  • Write clear sign-up disclosures to cut disputes
  • Set up retries and failed-payment notices
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Custom Payment Integration

For packaged food & beverage brands: Connect the payment flow for packaged foods, farmers-market sales and wholesale orders with your software and the operational records behind batch orders, wholesale invoices and product stock. Roots builds custom integrations that connect payment processing to ordering apps, accounting, inventory and reporting systems. Payments can connect to ERP, EDI and accounting systems.
  • Scope requirements and data flows
  • Build and test the integration
  • Deploy, monitor and maintain it
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Packaged Food & Beverage Brands payment questions

Start with the workflows your business needs. Options on this page include Square Online Store Setup for Packaged Food, Square for Retail for Packaged Food Brands, Square Invoices for Packaged Food Brands. Roots helps compare the setup, software and processing requirements around how you operate.
Yes. Bring your current POS, checkout or billing tools and recent processing statements. We review ordering, counter or table service, kitchen routing and checkout, then plan the changes your packaged food & beverage brands business needs.
Request a quote for your business. The review covers your payment mix, locations, software, hardware recommendations and implementation work. Consultations and payment reviews are free.
Bring recent payment statements, the systems you use and a record of how a customer places an order, receives a service or pays a bill. Tell us which packaged food & beverage brands workflows need to improve so we can scope a practical setup.

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