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Square POS setup and service in Adelaide

WaTo is your local, hands-on Square POS setup partner. Square makes great hardware and software, but getting it all configured, connected to printers, integrated with payments and working smoothly in your venue still takes proper setup. We handle the full installation — Square Register, Square Terminal, receipt printers, kitchen printers, catalogue configuration and staff training. Adelaide-based, available for ongoing service and support.

What is a Square POS setup project?

A Square POS setup project takes your Square hardware and software out of the box and turns it into a fully working point-of-sale system for your business. That means configuring your item catalogue, connecting EFTPOS and tap payments, setting up receipt and kitchen printers, building table maps or service flows, and training your staff to use it all. Square is designed to be simple, but simple still needs to be done right.

What we deliver

Square hardware installation

Square Register, Square Terminal or Square Reader set up on your counter — mounted, powered and connected to your network, ready for trade.

Catalogue and menu setup

Your full product catalogue or menu built in Square with categories, modifiers, pricing, variants and tax settings — tested and ready for your first transaction.

Printer configuration

Receipt printers at the counter and kitchen printers at the pass connected to Square via your network — dockets routing to the right place every time.

Payment integration

Square's built-in payments configured and tested — Visa, Mastercard, EFTPOS, American Express, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Afterpay all working from day one.

Peripheral connections

Cash drawers, barcode scanners, customer-facing displays and any other peripherals connected and configured to work with your Square setup.

Training and go-live support

Hands-on training for your team covering sales, refunds, reporting and end-of-day — plus on-site support during your first service.

Who it's for

  • Cafés, restaurants and food businesses choosing Square as their POS and wanting it set up properly from the start.
  • Retail shops and boutiques moving to Square and needing catalogue migration, barcode scanning and receipt printing configured.
  • Service businesses — salons, studios, clinics — using Square for appointments and payments and wanting everything connected.
  • Existing Square users who need printers added, a second terminal set up, or their configuration cleaned up and optimised.

How it works

  1. We understand your business. A quick chat about what you sell, how you sell it, what hardware you need, and whether you're starting fresh or migrating from another system.
  2. We procure or prepare hardware. Square devices ordered or sourced, along with any printers, stands, cash drawers or networking gear you need — all checked before we arrive.
  3. We build your catalogue. Products, menus, modifiers, categories and tax settings configured in your Square Dashboard — tested and tidied before go-live.
  4. We install on-site. Hardware set up at your counter, printers connected, payments tested with real transactions and your team walked through the basics.
  5. We stay available for support. Post-launch support for menu changes, printer issues, reporting questions or adding new devices — one call to your local WaTo team.

Why WaTo for Square POS

  • We know Square inside and out — Register, Terminal, Reader, Square for Restaurants, Square for Retail — and set it up to match your actual workflow.
  • We handle the bits Square doesn't — printer setup, network configuration, peripheral connections and on-site installation.
  • Local, hands-on support in Adelaide — not a call centre overseas when your kitchen printer stops mid-service.
  • One provider for hardware, setup, training and ongoing support — no chasing Square for hardware issues and someone else for printers.
  • We've been setting up POS and business technology for small businesses since 2001.

Square POS setup questions

Do we need to buy Square hardware through you?

No. You can buy directly from Square's online shop or a retailer, and we'll set it up. We can also procure it for you if you'd prefer a single invoice and someone to handle the ordering.

Can you connect our existing receipt printer to Square?

It depends on the printer model. Square supports specific Ethernet and Bluetooth printers from brands like Star Micronics. We'll check compatibility and recommend a replacement if yours isn't supported.

What does Square charge for payments?

Square's transaction fees are published on their website and vary by payment type. We don't add anything on top — our fee covers the setup and configuration project only.

Can you set up Square for multiple locations?

Yes. Square supports multi-location management from a single account. We'll configure each site with its own catalogue, printers and devices while keeping your reporting and management centralised.

Ready to get Square set up properly?

Get in touch and we'll plan a Square POS installation that fits your business.

No two businesses are the same — so nothing we do is off-the-shelf. Every solution is built around yours, and kept simple.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

How do your plans and pricing work?

Whatever suits you — a fixed contract, a monthly retainer, prepaid blocks of hours, or simple hourly rates. You pick the model that fits your business, and we keep it transparent with no surprise bills.

How quickly do you respond?

Fast. You talk to a real person, not a call queue — and for urgent issues we're often on-site within the hour across Adelaide, with remote support Australia-wide.

Do you only do IT support?

No — IT & Digital, cyber security, websites & hosting (via Whosts.au), business solutions and currency equipment, all from one local team. One number to call.

What does it cost?

It depends on your size and the cover you need. We keep pricing simple and transparent, with no surprise bills — call us for a tailored quote.

Do you support businesses outside Adelaide?

Yes. We're Adelaide-based and provide remote support Australia-wide, with on-site visits across South Australia.

Will you work with our existing IT person?

Absolutely. We often co-manage — taking on monitoring, security and after-hours cover alongside your in-house team.

Why we're different

Not your typical IT company

We keep it simple, and fix things for the future — not just patch them today.

A typical IT company
WaTo Consulting
You wait in a call queue
A real person on the WaTo team answers
One rigid plan — take it or leave it
Contract, retainer, blocks or hourly — your choice
Patch it today, deal with it again later
Fix the root cause — and what it could cause next
Jargon and over-engineering
Kept simple and explained in plain English
IT only — you juggle other vendors
IT, cyber, web, business & currency under one roof
Hosting resold from someone else
Our own Australian hosting — Whosts.au
WaTo character — happy to help

Still not sure what you need?

Tell us what's slowing you down and we'll point you to the right fix. You're a partner, not a client.

Call (08) 7123 0805 Email info@wato.com.au
Why clients choose us

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Our story

Built in Adelaide, since 2001

WaTo Consulting was founded by John Watson in Adelaide in 2001. Over two decades it's earned a name for tailored work across a wide range of industries — helping businesses of every size run more smoothly, work more efficiently and grow steadily, without blowing the budget or disrupting the day-to-day.

Emma Watson (née Dickenson) played a significant part in shaping what WaTo became. She brought real expertise and a clear vision for where it could go — expanding the business, bringing in new systems and fresh thinking, and raising the standard of how things are done. A great deal of what WaTo is, we owe to her.

Today it's all tailored, never off-the-shelf — IT & Digital, Business & Web Hosting, built around what each client actually needs. Over the years those areas have come together under one roof: our IT & Digital, Currency, Business and Web work (through Whosts.au) now all sit within WaTo Consulting — one team, one standard, looking after the lot.

When you work with us, you're not a client — you're a partner.