For lemonade stands
“Sorry, I don’t have any cash.”
It’s the most common thing said at a lemonade stand, and it’s the only reason a customer who wanted to buy something walks away. Give the stand a QR code and they can pay with the phone already in their hand.
Free to set up, free to host, and we take no cut. About five minutes.
How it works
Make the stand’s page
Pick “Lemonade Stand” and you get a page with a menu already on it — lemonade, the big cup, cookies. Change the prices to whatever they’re charging today.
Add where the money should go
Your own Venmo, Cash App or PayPal — whichever you already use. Payments go straight to you and never pass through us, so there’s no account to open, no ID check, and nothing to wait for. The stand is theirs; the money is yours.
Print the sign
One button prints a table sign with a big QR code, plus six little cards to hand over with the drink — so someone can still pay after they’ve walked off.
They scan and pay
The customer’s camera opens the menu, they tap the total, and their own payment app opens with the amount already filled in. Nothing for the kid to operate.
What the stand gets
A page, not a paperwork exercise
Menu, prices, and a line about what they’re saving up for — which is the part customers actually read, and the reason some of them round up.
A sign that survives a driveway
The QR is printed at high error-correction, so it still scans when it’s creased, splashed or half in shadow. The web address is printed underneath for anyone whose camera won’t cooperate.
Money straight to you
Paste your Venmo, Cash App or PayPal handle and customers pay you directly. We never hold it and we take nothing — no payout to wait for, no fee on a $2 cup.
If you’d rather take cards on the page itself, you can connect Stripe later. That one settles through us and keeps 5%.
A stand that’s already running
This one is real. It takes cards, it has add-ons, and the first $4 went through on a Saturday. Have a look at what your driveway could hand a neighbour.
Two things worth knowing first
The buyer needs the same app you do
Because payments go straight to your own account, a customer pays with whichever of Venmo, Cash App or PayPal you’ve listed — so add every one you use. Someone with none of them still pays cash, exactly as they do today. Nothing is deducted on that path: a $2 cup is $2, and we take no fee. (Card payments are the exception — that path runs through us and keeps 5%.)
The account has to be an adult’s
The payment account is yours, not your child’s — every one of these apps requires an account holder who is 18 or over. So the setup is yours and the stand is theirs. We don’t ask for the child’s last name, address or photo, and we’d suggest you don’t put them on the page either — it ends up on a sign in a front yard.
Set one up before Saturday
Five minutes now, and the next person who says they have no cash buys a lemonade anyway.
Set up a stand