Run Your Stall From Your Phone

Most weekend stallholders run on a patchwork: the free Square POS app for the sales, a stock spreadsheet that never quite matches the tin, and Xero at $37/mo for the books that you only open at BAS time. You take 1.6% to 2.2% on every Square tap, you re-key the day's takings on Sunday night, and when the market operator's stall-fee invoice arrives you stuff it in the glovebox and hope to find it in October. The cash count is the worst part, counting the drawer against a guess, never sure whether you're $5 down or just remembered the float wrong.

OneBookPlus rebuilds the stall around the phone. The phone is the POS, the EAN-13 scanner, the way the docket reaches the customer, and the end-of-day calculator. Ring up a sale by camera-scanning a barcode or tapping a product tile; take cash, or take the card on the reader you already carry and record the tender against the sale. Tapping the card on the phone itself is not live: Tap to Pay on iPhone is built but stays switched off in the public app until Apple grants the distribution entitlement. Then email or text the receipt straight to the buyer, or print it if you have a printer on the device. It carries your ABN and the GST split per line, and it is titled a tax invoice only when you are registered for GST and the sale actually carried some, so an unregistered stallholder never hands over a document claiming tax they did not charge. A phone cannot drive a thermal printer over Bluetooth, and no browser POS can, which is exactly why the send-it-to-them path exists. And every sale posts straight to the books, so Sunday-night data entry simply stops.

Your Market Day

Set the catalogue up once, GST-inclusive prices, a photo, internal-use barcodes generated with the GS1 200 prefix (no GS1 Australia membership, no per-barcode cost). Saturday morning you open POS at the trestle; sales fly through the camera scanner even on patchy market wi-fi. Loyalty stamps fire automatically for the regular who knows your bowls by hand. At pack-up you tap “Close out the till”, count the tin against the expected-cash figure the POS already knows, and the variance shows colour-coded with the exact deposit amount, most stallholders finish in 90 seconds and drive home.

Expenses & Accounting

Snap the market operator's stall-fee invoice on the phone and tag it “market fees”; fuel, packaging, clay, glazes and stock from your suppliers categorise as GST credits. Come BAS time the quarterly summary is already built, GST collected on sales, GST credits on expenses, net amount owing, exportable in one click or, once the ATO Tax Lodgement app ships (coming soon), lodged direct to the ATO.

Getting Started

Sign up free, no credit card, no card-terminal contract. Choose “Market stall” as your business type and OneBookPlus pre-configures GST-inclusive pricing, an AU chart of accounts, and receipt templates with your ABN. Import your products and customers via CSV from the Square item library or your stock spreadsheet, and generate your barcodes. The Free plan covers a one-stall sole trader's needs forever; flip on GST in one toggle the season you cross the $75,000 threshold.