For shops that already run on Square
If your Square reader already comes to every market, a Square invoice is the easy way to bill a custom order. At a few orders a week it does the job. This page covers what it costs, where it leaves the order behind, and how Broidry works with the Square account you use now.
If your Square reader comes to every craft fair, the invoice money goes into the same Square balance and pays out on the same schedule. There's no new account to open and no second set of payouts to match up.
Square's free plan includes estimates and deposits. A deposit invoice gets its own due date for the balance. Automatic reminders go out before, on, or after the due date.
A Square invoice takes a card or a bank transfer. The bank transfer costs you less. The customer gets a receipt. The invoice shows paid.
A Square invoice says "Custom hoodie, $48." The name, spelling, font, thread color, and placement are in the message thread where you agreed them. When it's time to stitch, Square tells you it's paid and the messages tell you what to stitch. Then you hope the two still match.
A custom piece is priced from the stitch count, garment, and placement. With an invoice you do that math yourself and type the total in. In Broidry the price comes from your own rate card as the customer makes their choices. My own rate card starts with a $20 minimum on every order.
A mockup of their name in your font on the hoodie they picked is not among the features Square lists for invoices or estimates. So approval happens in a chat, off a picture you made yourself. The yes lives in that chat. In Broidry the customer sees a mockup and approves it on the order, right next to the payment.
Your Square reports show what sold at the fair. Your custom orders sit in invoices and messages. Neither one is a list of what you need to stitch this week, sorted by when it's due.
Square keeps what the customer paid. It doesn't keep the design file, the thread colors, or the spelling, so a reorder a year later starts with scrolling back through old messages. Broidry keeps those on the customer's record.
Where the details live before you stitch.
Both take the money. The difference is what it's attached to.
A paid order should turn into a schedule and a history.
You don't have to pick one. Connect Square once on your Import page and every paid Square sale shows up on your board as a paid order, with what they bought and what they paid already on it. That covers the reader at a market and your Square online store. Sales from before you connected stay off the board. The Square card on the Import page lists them, with an "Add to my board" button for any you still need to stitch.
Custom orders can pay through your Square too. Once card payments through Square are on, the "Pay by card" button on your customer's order page opens Square's own payment page. The money goes into your Square balance. The order marks itself paid next to the spec and the mockup they approved. Card payments through Square work for shops that charge in US dollars. Group orders and drops always take cards through Stripe.
The Square help page walks through the setup. The works-with page lists the other stores Broidry connects to.
If that's you, put the full spec in the invoice message (name, spelling, font, thread color, placement) so the paid invoice is also your work order. The deposits and payment policy guide covers when to ask for a deposit. The embroidery invoice template has the lines every invoice should carry.
Square's free plan has no monthly fee. A card payment on an invoice costs 3.3% plus 30 cents there, or 2.9% plus 30 cents on Square Plus at $49 a month per location. Broidry is free to start, with up to 15 orders a month and a 2% fee on payments that go through Broidry. The Maker plan ($19 a month) makes orders unlimited and drops the fee to 1.5%. The Shop ($39) and Atelier ($79) plans add more on top. A card your customer pays on a Broidry page through your Square carries Square's usual online rate plus your Broidry plan's fee. A sale you ring up on Square yourself carries Square's fee only. Full detail on the pricing page.
On Square's free plan, a card payment on an invoice costs 3.3% plus 30 cents. On Square Plus ($49 a month per location) it's 2.9% plus 30 cents. A bank transfer on an invoice is 1% with a $1 minimum, capped at $10 on the paid plans. On a $48 order paid by card on the free plan, that's about $1.88. Sending the invoice is free. These are Square's published rates as of October 2026; check their pricing page before you price around them.
Yes, on every Square plan. Request a deposit up front and set a separate due date for the rest. A payment schedule with several milestones on one invoice is a Square Plus feature. For an embroidery order, one deposit and one balance is usually all you need.
Yes. Broidry connects to your Square account in one step. You allow it on Square's own page. After that, every paid Square sale from your reader or your Square online store shows up on your board as a paid order, with the items, buyer's name, and amount on it. When Square marks it shipped or picked up, the order closes itself. With card payments through Square turned on, the "Pay by card" button on your customers' order pages opens Square's own payment page. The money goes into your Square balance.
Not on a sale you rang up on Square yourself, at a market or on your Square online store. That money never went through Broidry, so Square's fee is the only one on it. A card your customer types into one of your Broidry pages does carry your plan's fee, whether Stripe or your Square account handles the card. On Broidry's Free plan, Square sales count toward the 15 orders a month.
Use the invoice while your custom orders are few and simple: a name on a shirt, a design you've stitched before, a customer you can show in person. Move when you're matching invoices to message threads to find out what to stitch, when a customer has paid for a spelling they never saw, or when a reorder starts with "what thread did I use last time?"
Square plan prices, card rates, and invoice features as published on Square's invoice pricing page, read October 2026. Paid by PayPal instead? See Broidry vs PayPal invoices. Taking orders on a form? See Broidry vs Google Forms and Square.
The customer picks from what you sell, sees their piece, approves it, and pays by card, through your Square if you connect it. The order shows up on your stitching list with nothing missing. Free to start.
The Free plan costs nothing until your first sale, and signing up does not ask for a credit card. The Free plan covers 15 orders a month, however your customers pay.