For Market Stalls, Pop-ups & Festival Vendors
Run Your Stall From Your Phone
Phone-camera POS, GST-aware receipts, 90-second end-of-day cash count, sole-trader BAS summary. Built for Australian market stallholders, weekend pop-ups and festival vendors who don't need an iPad stand or a card-terminal contract to take a sale.
Free Tools & Resources
Reference material for owners and stallholders
Start a Retail Business
8-step founder guide — ABN, GST, lease, POS, supplier terms, online channel, opening week.
Open →ComplianceConsumer Guarantees (ACL)
Section 54 acceptable quality, section 55 fitness for purpose, refund vs replace decision tree, signage requirements.
Open →ReferenceMarket Stall Permits by State
Food-stall permits, casual trader licences, council fees, public-liability requirements for market vendors.
Open →Operator GuidePOS Buyer's Guide
Square vs Lightspeed vs Vend vs Shopify POS vs Tyro — features, hardware costs, transaction fees, AU support.
Open →InteractiveMarkup & Break-Even Calculator
Interactive — cost, markup % vs margin %, retail price, GST, break-even unit volume and dollars.
Open →Key takeaways
5- Australian sole-trader stallholders need an ABN (free via the Australian Business Register) and become GST-registered above $75,000 turnover (the GST threshold). Below that line you can still claim a tax deduction for stall fees, packaging, fuel and stock — register an ABN even if you don't register for GST so you avoid 47% no-ABN withholding on supplier invoices.
- Most state councils now require a temporary food licence + Food Safety Supervisor (FSS) for any prepared-food stall (FSANZ Standard 3.2.2A). Non-food stalls (crafts, art, plants, secondhand) typically need only a market-operator's permit + public liability insurance — Markets Australia and the Australian Made Campaign offer member rates.
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- Common AU stall payment-hardware costs: Square Reader $59 once-off + 1.6% per tap, Tyro Go ~$30/mo + 1.4% per tap, Stripe Terminal BBPos ~$59 + 1.75% per tap. Pure cash works too — many stallholders take a clean lunch break of cash on a busy day.
- OneBookPlus replaces the typical stall-vendor stack — Square POS + Xero + a stock-tracker spreadsheet — with one platform from $0/month (Free, perfect for one-stall sole traders) to $29/month (Starter) or $69/month (Growth). Bundled: counter POS, daily sales, end-of-day cash count, GST-aware invoicing, BAS-ready summary, supplier expenses, Google review automation.
- Free plan covers a small stall's needs forever — 10 invoices/month, 250 contacts, online booking page (for pre-orders or wholesale enquiries), and Stripe payments. Australian-built and supported, in Melbourne.
Built for the truck-and-trestle setup
Everything fits in one apron pocket
Most retail software assumes you have a fixed location, a permanent terminal, and a barcode scanner bolted to the counter. Market stalls don't. So we made the phone the till, the scanner, the receipt printer and the end-of-day calculator — and the books take care of themselves between markets.
Phone is the POS
Ring up a sale, take cash or tap-and-go, email the receipt — all on the phone in your apron pocket. No iPad mount, no card terminal contract, no per-transaction kit to remember at 6am.
Phone-camera barcode scanning
Scan an EAN-13 with the camera in half a second. No $40 USB scanner to pack, no hardware to drop in the mud. Generate your own internal barcodes for hand-made goods (200-prefix EAN-13, GS1-compliant for in-store use).
Cash-heavy end-of-day count
Market stalls are still 60–80% cash for most operators. Tap end-of-day, enter your physical till count, the system computes expected cash from POS, shows variance colour-coded, and tells you exactly what to deposit Monday morning.
GST-aware receipts under $82.50
AU law: tax-invoice required for any sale ≥ $82.50 inclusive, quoting your ABN. Smaller sales get a plain receipt. Both happen automatically — you don't have to know the rule, the POS does.
Digital loyalty for regulars
The Sunday-market crowd remembers stallholders who remember them. Phone-number signup at the till, stamps fire automatically on every sale, the dashboard shows who's drifted so you can text them before next weekend.
Sole-trader BAS without the spreadsheet
GST collected over the quarter, GST credits on stall fees + stock + fuel + packaging — rolled into a one-click summary. Quarterly BAS for sole traders takes minutes, not Sunday afternoons.
Saturday to Sunday lockup
How a market day runs on OneBookPlus
Set up the catalogue once, open POS at the market, count the till at the truck, quarterly BAS in one click. The phone does the rest.
Set up before the market
Add your products on the phone, set GST-inclusive prices, snap optional photos. If you want barcodes, generate them in the catalogue (EAN-13 internal-use prefix, fully scannable).
Open POS Saturday morning
Phone-camera scan or tap a category. Cash or tap-and-go. Receipt prints (Bluetooth thermal printer optional) or emails. Every sale auto-posts to your books — no Monday data entry.
Close out at the truck
End of market: tap End-of-Day, count the cash drawer, enter the figure. Variance shows colour-coded, deposit amount calculates. 90 seconds, done, drive home.
BAS at end of quarter
GST collected on every sale, GST credits on stall fees + packaging + stock + fuel — one click summary. Drop it to your accountant or self-lodge via the ATO Tax Lodgement app.
Trusted by Australian market stallholders
$0
Free plan — perfect for one-stall sole traders
90 sec
Average lockup time at end of market
Phone-only
No card terminal, no hardware kit
BAS-ready
GST in, GST out — one-click summary
Retail savings calculator
What does your retail tech stack really cost?
Adjust the inputs below to match your real spend. The total updates live — and so does the dead-stock value you'd recover by acting on the report each month.
POS subscription (Square, Shopify POS, Lightspeed)
Monthly per-location fee
Stock / inventory app (Cin7, DEAR, TradeGecko)
Monthly subscription
Accounting (Xero, MYOB)
Monthly subscription
Email marketing (Mailchimp, Klaviyo)
Newsletters + campaigns
Average inventory value on hand
Used to size the dead-stock recovery bonus
Active SKUs / variants
More SKUs → more drift toward dead stock
Your current tool stack
$216/mo
= $2,592/year
With OneBookPlus Starter
$29/mo
Replaces everything in the list. One bill.
~1% of $30,000 inventory recovered/mo via the dead-stock report. Markdown the slowest movers before they cost you shelf space.
Free plan available · No card required · Cancel anytime
Australian Owned
Built in Melbourne, AU
GST Compliant
ATO-ready from day one
Bank-Grade Security
256-bit encryption
Free Plan Available
No credit card needed
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about market-stall and pop-up management software in Australia.
Do I need a card reader to take payments at my stall?
No. OneBookPlus records sales as 'Cash' or 'Card' — you bring whichever payment hardware you want (Square Reader, Tyro Go, a bank-supplied portable terminal, or none at all). The POS just logs what the customer paid with so it reconciles against your bank deposits later. Many AU market stallholders run cash-only and the POS works perfectly for that — actually the EOD cash count is built specifically for the cash-heavy market vendor.
How do I do barcodes when I make my own products?
Open the products page and use the bulk barcode generator — it creates EAN-13 codes with the GS1 200 prefix (reserved for in-store / restricted-distribution use, won't clash with any manufacturer code). Print them with the built-in shelf-tag printer, stick them on your hand-made goods, and the phone camera scans them like any other product barcode. No GS1 membership fee, no per-barcode cost.
I'm a sole trader and probably under the GST threshold. Does the platform still make sense?
Yes. Below $75,000 turnover you're not required to register for GST, and OneBookPlus's Free plan covers a small-stall sole-trader's full needs forever — invoicing, POS, daily sales, online booking page, Stripe payments. When you cross the threshold (most stalls hit it in a couple of good seasons), enabling GST is one toggle and every receipt becomes GST-inclusive with your ABN. The BAS summary builds itself.
What about end-of-market cash counting? That's our biggest headache.
It's specifically built for you. After the market, tap 'Close out the till'. The POS already knows the expected cash from today's sales. Enter your physical count + the opening float. Variance shows live, colour-coded (balanced under $1, amber under $5, red above). The 'cash to bank' figure is exactly what you drop in the safe. Most stallholders finish in 90 seconds. Bank-feed reconciliation auto-matches the deposit when it lands.
How does the loyalty stamp card work for one-stall-per-week regulars?
Customers join at the till by phone number — five seconds, no app to download. Every paid sale fires a stamp automatically. When their card fills (e.g. 'buy 10 coffees get 1 free' or 'spend $100 get $10 off'), the next purchase shows the reward as a cart discount the operator confirms. The dashboard shows whose birthday is this week so you can offer a free item when they're at next weekend's market.
Multi-market vendors — can I separate sales by location?
Use the order tags / notes field to mark which market each sale came from. Sales reports can then filter or you can run a dedicated dashboard per location. Multi-tenant support (totally separate books per stall) is on the roadmap — most one-person stalls don't need it; multi-stall operators today usually run one tenant and filter by market in reports.
What does it replace?
Most stall-holders we onboard come off a Square POS app (free hardware, but 1.6–2.2% per tap), Xero ($35/mo for the books), and a spreadsheet for stock. OneBookPlus replaces the trio from $0/mo Free, $29/mo Starter or $69/mo Growth. The ROI calculator below shows the side-by-side with your real numbers.
About the author
Bishal Shrestha
Founder & CEO, OneBookPlus
Bishal has over a decade of experience in digital marketing, web development, and small business consulting across Australia. OneBookPlus market-stall features are informed by direct work with Australian farmers' market and pop-up vendors — operators who needed phone POS, cash-heavy end-of-day, and BAS-ready summaries without paying $99/mo for hardware they didn't need.
Set up the stall. We'll handle the books.
Phone POS, cash count, BAS. From $0/mo, no contract, no hardware kit, no Sunday-afternoon spreadsheet.
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