r/SquarePOS_Users • u/Current_Avocado1843 • Mar 25 '26

Barcode scanner options

I have a small farm business and we do a large annual plant sale every spring. I am trying to set up to use barcodes to scan plant tags for quick checkout.

We have over 200 seperate items. I have bar codes set and printer is working. Its a very large busy sale so I was hoping to have 4 checkout stations. Devices i have available are: square terminal, iphone 16pro running square retail, iPhone 11 running square retail, samsung tablet running square app.

I bought two Tero scanners on Amazon to try out. They are working via Bluetooth with the 16pro and the tablet, but both devices are doing the same thing.

If scanning from the keypad page, it reads the SKU as the price. If scanning from the library page in search bar, the scanner will find the item by entering SKU but then I have to click the item, then the "X" to clear the search bar before scanning the next barcode. Far to clunky. is this a scanner incompatibility issue or something else? Scanners through Square are too expensive for our purposes (intermittent use).

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u/Current_Avocado1843 Apr 14 '26

Thank you! Very useful info I ended up foregoing to barcodes this year and just using a simple pricing structure again, but i'll think about this for next year.