Card payments, when your group wants them
Take cards at the door.
“Sorry, I don’t have cash on me.” Every seller hears it.
Turn on card payments for your sale, and that “sorry” becomes an order. Neighbors pay on their own phones, and the money goes to your group, never through a parent.
Two QR codes do the work.
Scan to order
Every family gets its own QR code to print or show. A neighbor who wasn’t home scans it, orders and pays by card on their own phone. The order counts for that family.
Scan to pay
An unpaid order shows a QR code. The customer scans it and pays by card on their own phone, or the family texts them the link. No card reader, and no card numbers on paper.
The money goes to your group. Not a parent.
Straight to your group’s account
Every card payment goes to your group’s own Stripe account, in the group’s name. Stripe sends it to your bank on its regular schedule.
Matched to its order
Each payment marks its order paid. Your treasurer isn’t decoding payment notes or chasing a parent’s app account.
Stripe’s fees. Nothing from us.
Stripe charges its processing fee on each card payment. The Order Buddy adds no fee of its own. Your price per event stays the same, cards or no cards.
Cash and checks still work.
Cards sit alongside cash, checks and payment apps. Every order records how it was paid. Every card payment is one less cash envelope or check to chase. The cost is Stripe’s fee. If you take cash and checks too, the same money rules still apply to those.
Off until you want it.
Card payments are off unless your group asks for them. We set it up with you: your group gets its own Stripe account, in the group’s name, and we connect it to your sale.
Want cards for your next sale?
or write to info@theorderbuddy.com