Whether you own a taco truck, pizza joint, or high-end boutique, finding new ways to serve customers who are looking to shop and place orders from anywhere is key to adapting to today’s challenges.
If you’re looking to take orders online, on social media, or over the phone, you have a variety of options when it comes to how customers can pick up or receive their items.
From curbside pickup to delivery, here are a few options to easily expand the ways customers can get your pizzas, sweaters, cinnamon rolls, artwork — without missing a beat.
Add curbside or in-store pickup
If you’re located in a neighborhood where customers can come to you, you can provide them with the option to buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS), or pick up their order curbside.
If you use Square Online Store and you enable in-store pickup, customers placing orders will see a selection for in-store pickup at checkout, and they can come inside your brick-and-mortar space when their order is ready for pickup.
If you enable the curbside option, customers will see a selection for curbside pickup at checkout. Your customer will receive a text message letting them know to call your pickup location’s phone number upon arrival, and you or your staff can bring their order out to their waiting car.
Learn how to set up in-store pickup and curbside pickup.
Set up local delivery
With Square’s local delivery, you can offer delivery for customers within a geographic range that you determine, and use your own staff (or yourself) to deliver goods. Eligible customers can select delivery at checkout and opt to receive delivery text alerts.
- Local food delivery: When you enable local delivery with Square Online Store at your restaurant, order tickets sent to your kitchen will print all delivery details in the notes section.
- Local retail delivery: When you enable local delivery with Square Online Store at your retail store, customers can select delivery at checkout. Order tickets sent to your Point of Sale will print delivery details in the notes section.
For both retail and food, you can also set an estimated delivery time, delivery fee, and a minimum delivery order value.
Learn how to set up local delivery.
Work with delivery partners
You can also set up delivery through integrations with Square partners. These integrations can help you offer customers delivery by courier, receive online orders from customers, and manage orders from these platforms within your Square Point of Sale.
Here are a few of our partners that can help you get set up.
- Cuboh can help you reach new customers with food pickup and delivery orders. Bring all of your restaurant’s online ordering directly into your Square Point of Sale. Receive and manage orders from Uber Eats, Ritual, DoorDash, & Foodora, all in one place. Get started with the Square + Cuboh integration.
- Deliverect Deliverect connects Uber Eats, DoorDash, Foodora and many other delivery platforms directly to Square, helping to automate your delivery operations. Get started with the Square + Deliverect integration.
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