Can I really keep my Square terminal?

Absolutely. Ring up sales in Square. Track everything else in Music Shop Suite. They work together — Square for payments, us for the back office.

Does this sync with Square?

Not directly. Most shops enter sales from Square into Music Shop Suite at the end of the day, or import a CSV. Full integration is on the roadmap.

Is this better than Square for inventory?

It is different. Square inventory is SKU-based retail. Music Shop Suite is unit-based, built for one-of-a-kind instruments. If you sell the same cable in bulk, Square is better. If you sell vintage guitars, we are.

Square for music stores

Square Handles Payments. Music Shop Suite Handles Your Shop.

Square is one of the best payment processors for small businesses. It is fast, reliable, and easy to set up. But music stores need more than checkout: they need to track serialized instruments, manage rentals, run repair tickets, schedule lessons, and produce accounting reports that reflect all of it. That is what Music Shop Suite does — and it works alongside Square.

Track every instrument by serial, condition, cost, and history
Manage rentals, loans, and school programs with due-date tracking
Run repair tickets with intake forms, status flows, and cost tracking
Schedule lessons with student and teacher views
Export P&L, inventory value, and turnover reports
$49/month, no contracts. Keep your Square terminal.

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What Square does not track

Square tracks SKUs and sales. It does not track the 1962 Strat with serial L12345 that came in for a refret, went out on a school rental, and came back with a cracked neck. We do.

Per-unit serial, condition, and photo history
Loan and rental status on each instrument
Repair tickets tied to the actual unit

Rentals are not sales

Square records a rental as a transaction. We record it as a loan with a due date, a deposit, a student, a school, and a history. When the instrument comes back, the record is updated — not closed.

Repairs need their own system

A repair in Square might be a line item on a receipt. In Music Shop Suite, it is a ticket with an intake form, parts, labor, status updates, and customer communication. Your luthier knows what to do. Your customer knows when it is ready.

Accounting that sees the whole shop

Sales, rentals, repairs, and lessons all flow into one ledger. Your P&L is not just what rang through the terminal — it is every revenue stream, and your inventory value is current, not a year-end guess.

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Inventory, pricing, lesson bookings, and instrument lending all live in the same back-office dashboard — no separate apps, no re-keying between them.

Music shop inventory dashboard listing instruments with SKU, serial number, condition, cost, price and status — InventoryEvery instrument tracked by SKU and serial with condition, cost, retail price, and live status — for sale, on hold, in repair, or sold.

Pricing and margin report showing revenue, cost of goods, gross profit and per-product markup — Pricing & marginRevenue, cost of goods, gross profit, and markup per product so you price from real numbers instead of gut feel.

Weekly lesson booking calendar with student lessons, teachers, rooms and attendance — Lesson bookingsA weekly teaching calendar with rooms, teachers, and attendance marking — plus the invoice that follows each lesson block.

Instrument lending and rental tracker with borrowers, due dates, overdue badges and deposits — Instrument lendingLoans and rentals by unit: who has it, when it is due, what deposit is held, and which agreements are overdue.

Honest note

Honest note: we do not process payments.

Square is a payment terminal and processor. Music Shop Suite is not. We do not replace Square and we do not compete with it. We are the back-office system that sits behind it — the place where your instruments, clients, loans, repairs, lessons, and accounting live. If you love Square for checkout but need a system that understands a music shop, that is the gap we fill.

Frequently asked

Can I really keep my Square terminal?: Absolutely. Ring up sales in Square. Track everything else in Music Shop Suite. They work together — Square for payments, us for the back office.
Does this sync with Square?: Not directly. Most shops enter sales from Square into Music Shop Suite at the end of the day, or import a CSV. Full integration is on the roadmap.
Is this better than Square for inventory?: It is different. Square inventory is SKU-based retail. Music Shop Suite is unit-based, built for one-of-a-kind instruments. If you sell the same cable in bulk, Square is better. If you sell vintage guitars, we are.

Keep exploring the workbench

Every part of the shop lives in one system. Follow the workflow closest to what you are trying to fix first.

Run your shop on one workbench — starting today.

$49/month, no contracts, no trial. Import your spreadsheet, invite your team, and have inventory, repairs, rentals, and lessons in one place tonight.