You can set up a Store to sell items in person at a concession stand, using the Bound Stripe Reader for payments. You build the store on your Bound Admin site, add your products, and the store appears on the reader at your events.
Note: This article covers building the Store. To learn how to run concession sales on the reader itself, see Using Stores/Concessions on the Stripe Reader.
What is a "Store"?
Bound lets you sell tangible goods, from concessions to apparel, through a digital storefront on our platform called a Store. Stores then appear on your Bound Stripe Reader for easy digital payment and inventory tracking.
Create a Concessions Store
Go to Business (the dollar sign icon) -> Stores.
Click + Add Store in the top right corner, then choose Add New Store to build from scratch or Add Store from Template to start from a pre-configured setup.
If you choose Add Store from Template, click the green + in front of the template you want. You'll land on the store's Overview tab, and you can adjust everything in the sections below.
Under Category, select Concessions.
Enter a unique, identifiable Name (for example, Concessions 26-27).
Add a Description. This is optional, but recommended. This displays on your public gobound.com site if you make the store public.
Confirm the School Year matches the academic year you're setting up the concession store for.
Confirm the Start Date and End Date. This is the range of time the store displays and is available to manage product sales.
Note: The start date pre-fills with today's date, and the end date pre-fills with the end date of the selected school year.
Ex: For the 2026-27 school year, the End Date pre-fills as July 31st of 2027.
Under Stripe Accounts, confirm the correct Stripe account is selected for this store.
Under Store Venue, choose a venue for sales tax purposes. We recommend choosing the venue where the concession stand is or will be located.
In the Fund Allocation panel, choose the Payee where the store's proceeds are deposited and reported, then choose how the funds are recorded: Keep payee default, Different account, or Split plan.
Review everything, then click Create Store.
Note: An additional Payee must be completely set up before your store takes its first transaction. See 'Setting up Your First Payee and Adding Additional Payees'
Store Setup
After you create the store, you land on its Overview tab.
From the tab bar, click Setup:
Confirm the School Year, Category, and Name carried over correctly. If you added a Description, that will carry over as well.
Optional: add an Order Disclaimer.
Optional: edit the Confirmation Email Note. A default message pre-fills:
Ignore Gate Checkout Receipt Flow. It isn't needed for concessions stores.
Leave Show on Public Page off unless you want the store visible on your public gobound.com site. The most common choice for concessions stores is to leave it off.
Click Save Store.
Complete the Financial Details section on the same tab:
Financial Details
Under Stripe Accounts, confirm the correct account is selected. If you have multiple Stripe accounts tied to your account, then you can select one for this specific store.
Under Venue for tax purposes, confirm the venue and that its taxes are set up correctly.
Turn on Upcharge Processing Fee if you want the processing fee for cashless transactions added on top of the purchase price instead of deducted from your proceeds.
Click Save Store.
Add Products
Click the Products tab.
If you started from a template, products are already listed.
Click + Manage Products in the top right corner, then click + Add Product.
Enter a Position number to set the product's order in the store's product list.
Enter the product's Name, an optional Description, and the Price.
Choose a Tax Category. The tax rate is set by the venue. Choose a category even if your state doesn't require collecting or reporting taxes on concessions.
Set a Tax Value only if the product is a full or partial donation to your school.
Confirm the Start Date and End Date for when the product is available for sale.
Enter the Quantity Available. Set it to 1000 if the amount is unlimited; your reports still record the amount sold. To track remaining inventory, enter your actual starting quantity instead. This number doesn't show on the public side.
Enter a Limit Per Transaction, or set it to 0 for no limit. Most concessions stores don't limit items per transaction.
Turn on Display on Public Store if the store is public.
Click Create Product. After the product is created, you can click Upload Photo to add an image.
Product Options
Product Options let one product carry multiple priced variations, which can simplify navigation on the Stripe Reader. For example, create one product named Candy at a price of $0.00, then give each candy type its own fee as an option.
On the New Product form, scroll to the Options section.
Under Category, select Require at least one option and allow multiple to be selected on purchase.
In the options grid, for each item:
Enter a Position.
Enter the item's Name.
Leave the Quantity at 0.
Set the Category to Add-on.
Enter the item's price in the Fee field.
Click Create Product. After creating the product, you can add one or more images to each option.
Group Products
Groups make products easier to find on the Stripe Reader screen. For example, you might group Drinks, Candy, and Hot Food.
Click the Groups tab, then click + Add Group in the top right corner.
Enter a Position and a Name for the group.
Under Products, add products to the group using the dropdown menus.
Click Create Group at the bottom of the page. After the group is created, you can add an image.
Checkout
Once your products and groups are in place, open the Checkout tab to see the store as it appears at the point of sale. Each product is listed with its price and an Add button. A product built with options, like the Candy example above, lists each option with its fee, and selections are added on top of the base price.
As items are added to the order, the Subtotal updates, and the sale can be completed with a connected reader, Credit Card, or Cash.
The Checkout tab is a working point of sale in your browser, not just a preview. At the concession stand, the same products and groups appear on the Stripe Reader, which runs sales through its own app (covered in the article below).