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We were just debating this, but we ultimately chose Lightspeed for our small museum opening in 2019. Check that out- seems to be more inclusive for bookkeeping, and reporting & it's a "smart" system. Hope that helps!

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Samantha Hirsch
Education Director
Poster House
New York NY
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-20-2018 03:45 PM
From: Avery Ligon
Subject: Questions about using Square

Hi all, 

Habitot Children's Museum (small) is thinking of changing our entire system (day admission, membership, gift shop...) to Square. We read through the previous AAM forum threads related to Square, but still have questions and concerns. We'd be so grateful if we could get answers to the following questions:

1) How are other museums using Square to handle memberships sales? Does it seem like a reasonable approach? Or is it a pain in the neck?

2) What is the average daily volume (total cash sales) other museums are handling through square? And, what was the time/staff involvement in transitioning to square? 

3) What reconciliations (eg donations, memberships, class sales, rentals, field trips)  are other museums tracking through Square? And, how does Square support those? Has anyone switched to Square and felt that it was a mistake?

4) Have other museums found that Square reports have been sufficient for bookkeeping and auditing purposes?

6) When your museum switched to Square, did working at the front desk become easier? Our front desk is staffed almost entirely with students from our local university. We're assuming that college students will find using Square to be "normal" and easy. Can anyone speak to that? What does the training period look like? Are there in fact fewer errors, or does square have its own set of errors? How transparent are those errors to identify and fix?

Thanks so much!!!!

Thanks :) I'll take a look at Lightspeed. 

We have a local toy store that is willing to take over our gift shop ordering. This would be wonderful for us because they could absorb into their inventory anything we didn't sell. This would allow us to change our product quickly and reduce the cost of having made a bad purchasing decision. They use Square and to integrate with them, we would need Square. There must be a way to accomplish this. Maybe Square integrates with a system like Lightspeed? Keeping my fingers crossed.

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Avery Ligon
Habitot Children's Museum
Berkeley CA
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-21-2018 11:35 AM
From: Samantha Hirsch
Subject: Questions about using Square

We were just debating this, but we ultimately chose Lightspeed for our small museum opening in 2019. Check that out- seems to be more inclusive for bookkeeping, and reporting & it's a "smart" system. Hope that helps!

------------------------------
Samantha Hirsch
Education Director
Poster House
New York NY

Original Message:
Sent: 08-20-2018 03:45 PM
From: Avery Ligon
Subject: Questions about using Square

Hi all, 

Habitot Children's Museum (small) is thinking of changing our entire system (day admission, membership, gift shop...) to Square. We read through the previous AAM forum threads related to Square, but still have questions and concerns. We'd be so grateful if we could get answers to the following questions:

1) How are other museums using Square to handle memberships sales? Does it seem like a reasonable approach? Or is it a pain in the neck?

2) What is the average daily volume (total cash sales) other museums are handling through square? And, what was the time/staff involvement in transitioning to square? 

3) What reconciliations (eg donations, memberships, class sales, rentals, field trips)  are other museums tracking through Square? And, how does Square support those? Has anyone switched to Square and felt that it was a mistake?

4) Have other museums found that Square reports have been sufficient for bookkeeping and auditing purposes?

6) When your museum switched to Square, did working at the front desk become easier? Our front desk is staffed almost entirely with students from our local university. We're assuming that college students will find using Square to be "normal" and easy. Can anyone speak to that? What does the training period look like? Are there in fact fewer errors, or does square have its own set of errors? How transparent are those errors to identify and fix?

Thanks so much!!!!

Certainly worth an ask! Good Luck!

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Samantha Hirsch
Education Director
Poster House
New York NY
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-22-2018 12:15 PM
From: Avery Ligon
Subject: Questions about using Square

Thanks :) I'll take a look at Lightspeed.

We have a local toy store that is willing to take over our gift shop ordering. This would be wonderful for us because they could absorb into their inventory anything we didn't sell. This would allow us to change our product quickly and reduce the cost of having made a bad purchasing decision. They use Square and to integrate with them, we would need Square. There must be a way to accomplish this. Maybe Square integrates with a system like Lightspeed? Keeping my fingers crossed.

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Avery Ligon
Habitot Children's Museum
Berkeley CA

Original Message:
Sent: 08-21-2018 11:35 AM
From: Samantha Hirsch
Subject: Questions about using Square

We were just debating this, but we ultimately chose Lightspeed for our small museum opening in 2019. Check that out- seems to be more inclusive for bookkeeping, and reporting & it's a "smart" system. Hope that helps!

------------------------------
Samantha Hirsch
Education Director
Poster House
New York NY

Original Message:
Sent: 08-20-2018 03:45 PM
From: Avery Ligon
Subject: Questions about using Square

Hi all, 

Habitot Children's Museum (small) is thinking of changing our entire system (day admission, membership, gift shop...) to Square. We read through the previous AAM forum threads related to Square, but still have questions and concerns. We'd be so grateful if we could get answers to the following questions:

1) How are other museums using Square to handle memberships sales? Does it seem like a reasonable approach? Or is it a pain in the neck?

2) What is the average daily volume (total cash sales) other museums are handling through square? And, what was the time/staff involvement in transitioning to square? 

3) What reconciliations (eg donations, memberships, class sales, rentals, field trips)  are other museums tracking through Square? And, how does Square support those? Has anyone switched to Square and felt that it was a mistake?

4) Have other museums found that Square reports have been sufficient for bookkeeping and auditing purposes?

6) When your museum switched to Square, did working at the front desk become easier? Our front desk is staffed almost entirely with students from our local university. We're assuming that college students will find using Square to be "normal" and easy. Can anyone speak to that? What does the training period look like? Are there in fact fewer errors, or does square have its own set of errors? How transparent are those errors to identify and fix?

Thanks so much!!!!