What is the best POS app for craft fairs that works offline?
If you mostly take cash and payment-app payments at your booth, Fair Till is built for it: it rings up a sale in three taps and every part of checkout works with no signal. If most of your customers pay by card, a card-processing app such as Square is the better fit, because Fair Till cannot take card payments.
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How the options compare
- Square: Free app, and it can take cards through a reader, which Fair Till cannot do. Card payments cost a percentage per sale. It has an offline mode that stores card payments and sends them when you reconnect, with limits and a risk of declines, so check Square's current offline terms before relying on it in a field with no bars.
- PayPal Point of Sale (formerly Zettle) and similar card apps: Same idea as Square: you get card acceptance, you pay a per-sale fee, usually with a card reader. Good when cards are most of your sales.
- Etsy Seller app: Made for running an Etsy shop, not a booth. It does not replace a cash register at a fair.
- A notebook or spreadsheet: Costs nothing and works anywhere. It falls over when the line is long, and you add the totals up at home.
Where Fair Till fits
Fair Till is a cash register and sales log, not a payment processor. You get paid the way you already do, in cash or in the payment apps your customers use, and you confirm each sale yourself. Because it never touches the money, it takes no per-sale fee.
Every feature on the checkout path works with no connection. The one thing it fetches online is a public sales-tax rate table, and none of your data goes with that request.
You can split a bill across up to eight people, refund a sale against the original, and text or print a PDF receipt in two taps. Start an event when you set up the booth and it shows your profit after booth fee, travel and materials when you end it.
The honest limit: if you want to tap a card at the booth, Fair Till will not do that. Some vendors use a card reader app for cards and Fair Till as the record for everything else.
What it costs
Fair Till is free to download. The register, receipts, events and sales export are free. Premium is a one-time purchase of $79.99 in the US with no subscription; it unlocks unlimited AI insights, the weekly digest and your full sales history (the free sales list shows your latest 25 sales). Prices from the US App Store, checked 2026-11-03; they vary by region.
Quick answers
Does Fair Till work with no cell signal?
Yes. Every feature on the checkout path works with no connection.
Can I take credit cards with Fair Till?
No. It does not process payments. Use a card-processing app for cards.
Does Fair Till charge a percentage of my sales?
No. It never handles your money, so there is no per-sale fee.
What does it cost?
Free to download with the full register; Premium is a one-time $79.99 in the US, no subscription.
More questions about Fair Till
- Is there a cash register app for markets with no transaction fees?
- How do I track whether a craft fair was worth the booth fee?
- What is a simple point of sale app for farmers market and pop-up vendors?
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