"Sorry, I only have a fifty."
You hear it every market. The buyer wants your eggs. You need change. They walk away. With Paddock's walk-up QR flyer, they scan, tap to pay, and you're done. No float. No change. No missed sales.
Cash is simple, immediate, and has no transaction fees. For low-volume or occasional sellers it works perfectly well. But at a busy market, cash handling slows everything down — and the number of Australians walking around without notes is only going up.
The problem with cash-only selling
Invisible to cashless buyers
Contactless payment is the default for most Australians now. When your stall is cash only, you're invisible to a growing share of the market who simply don't carry notes.
Float and change headaches
You need the right change before you start. You're constantly calculating, making change, counting the till. At a busy market you're doing maths under pressure while trying to talk to customers.
No record of what sold
At the end of the day you count what's left and try to work backwards. There's no list of what sold, at what price, to whom. You can't track your best-sellers or plan your next batch from the data.
No way to reserve ahead
Buyers have no way to reserve their usual dozen before the market. You bring what you think you’ll sell and hope the numbers are right. Regulars who wanted the first batch sometimes miss out.
Queues that lose sales
When you're the most popular stall, cash transactions slow to a crawl. Other buyers wait, get impatient, or move on. Tap-to-pay takes seconds.
Paddock vs. Cash Only at Markets — at a glance
With Paddock, you get
A walk-up QR flyer
Every Paddock stall comes with a printable A5 QR flyer. Pin it to your market table. Buyers scan, browse your products, tap to pay. It's live at your stall without any hardware.
Tap-to-pay, no reader
Most buyers at a Saturday market have their phone in their hand already. They tap, it’s done. Faster than finding notes, faster than card, faster than making change.
Pre-orders the night before
Let buyers reserve what they want the night before. You know exactly what to bring. Less waste, fewer sell-outs, happier regulars.
Know what actually sold
After every market, your Paddock dashboard shows exactly what moved, at what price, and how much you earned. Plan your next batch from real data, not memory.
Print your QR flyer and take payments at your next market. Start free — 4% only when you sell.