In-Person Sales
The concession stand, minus the cash-box chaos.
Your concession stand already makes money; this makes it make more, with none of the cash-box chaos. Every volunteer's phone becomes a register: cash sales tap in, card buyers scan a QR and pay on their own phone (no reader, no terminal, no app to install), and if you link the stand to your game-day program, fans order from the bleachers and pick up by name. At close, you know exactly what should be in the drawer, and who sold what. This is for selling face to face, on the spot — if you want supporters ordering online for delivery later, that's Product Sales.
No card readers, no terminals, no tablets to rent. Volunteers sell from their own phones, and card buyers pay on theirs.
Each sale rings to the volunteer who took it, cash included. The drawer reconciles itself at close: expected vs. counted, over or short, per seller.
Linked to your game-day program, fans order and pay from their seats, then pick up by name when it's ready. Nobody misses the third quarter for a hot dog.
Use it when
Where the register earns its keep
The concession stand, every home game
The classic. Open the stand with a starting float, hand each volunteer their own register link, and run cash and card side by side all night. Close out in two minutes instead of counting a shoebox at midnight.
Bake sales and spirit-wear tables
Same register, different menu. Start from a ready-made item list for your table type, tweak prices, and sell. Card by QR means you never lose the sale when a parent has no cash.
Car washes and plant sales
Anywhere volunteers take money in person. Multiple sellers can work the same stand at once, and every dollar is attributed, so 'how much did we make?' has one answer.
The door table at any event
Selling programs, merch, or snacks at the entrance? Open a stand next to your ticket check-in and take both kinds of money with zero extra gear.
The goods
One register, any table
Pick a stand type and you start with a ready-made menu you can edit, so setup takes minutes, not a planning meeting.
- Concessions: hot dogs, popcorn, candy, water, hot cocoa
- Bake sale: cookies, brownies, cupcakes, whole cakes for the big spenders
- Spirit wear: tees, hats, scarves, and foam fingers at the gate
- Plant and flower sales, holiday wreaths, mulch pickup days
- Car wash: per-car pricing plus a tip-the-team option
Two ways to run it
At the stand, or from their seats
They're not either/or: the same stand takes walk-up sales all night while orders roll in from the crowd.
At the stand
The classicBest for walk-up crowds · any table
Volunteers ring up buyers face to face. Tap items, take cash and make change (the register does the math), or show the QR and the buyer pays by card on their own phone. Works offline and syncs when the signal comes back.
From their seats
Best for home games with a program
Link the stand to your game-day program and a fan in the bleachers orders, pays by card, and gets a pickup pass with their name and a code. The stand crew sees orders come in live, and a parent can text the pass to their kid to go pick it up.
How it works
Up and running in three steps.
- 1
Open a stand: pick concessions, bake sale, or spirit wear, and start from a ready-made menu
- 2
Volunteers sell from their own phones: tap items for cash, or show the QR and the buyer pays by card
- 3
Close out: the register shows the expected drawer, each seller's total, and flags any over or short
Illustrative example
A booster club runs the Friday-night stand with four parents, each selling from their own phone. Fans order hot chocolate from the bleachers through the game-day program and pick up by name. The night brings in $640 (cash and card), and the drawer balances to the dollar at close.
Example scenario only, not a reported customer result.
Best for Concession stands · bake sales · spirit-wear tables · car washes
Better together
The stand is better with a crowd around it
In-person sales turn existing gatherings into revenue, so pair the register with the things that draw the crowd.
Keep exploring
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