Square for Restaurants
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Square for Restaurants Pricing
Free + 2/6% + 10 cents processing rate for in-person & invoice pamyents or 2.9% + 30 cents for online payments. Plus: $60 per location, per month, plus $40/month per additional POS & 2/6% + 10 cents processing rate for in-person & invoice pamyents or 2.9% + 30 cents for online payments. Premium: Custom Pricing - eligibility applies
Starting price:
$60.00 per month
Free trial:
Available
Free version:
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Most Helpful Reviews for Square for Restaurants
1 - 5 of 45 Reviews
Ryan
Verified reviewer
Financial Services, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2020
Super easy to use and convenient!
I enjoy it a lot and will continue to use
PROSI really love using this software! It is so easy to use and is always quick to use, never issues with it! This is important in the restaurant
CONSThe only con is that the fees get a little expensive at times, especially when you manually enter info
Dannyelle
Food & Beverages, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2023
Enough for what we need
8/10 overall, with unique issues to certain industries that makes it frustrating here and there. I'd suggest it, there's a reason it's the most popular POS system for small businesses on the market, but don't expect it to be perfect!
PROSEasy to set up and adjust menus and such, does most everything we need it to do. Have to think outside the box to get it to do some of the things I need it to do, but overall, if you take the time to figure it out, you'll get there.
CONSA few things are a bit narrow in customizability, I wish we could do more variation in things like loyalty programs and discount set-ups, and sometimes some adjustments can be a bit tedious to change. We're a brewery with a constantly changing menu of beer offerings, so having to make 5-10 clicks per beverage change every single week can be a bit frustrating, but it's overall pretty user friendly so I can't complain too much.
Reason for choosing Square for Restaurants
Relatively within budget, and popular enough that I knew it would be easy to find solutions to issues within online forums and other business owners across the platform. Had also used it before at a previous job so I knew I could integrate it into some of the things I also wanted to use.
Ruby
Hospitality, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2024
Really great system
Easy to use, add and update products, very easy as well to train staff on how to use.
CONSThere's a few limitations with regards to comping/discounting
Leah
Food & Beverages, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
1
EASE OF USE
1
VALUE FOR MONEY
1
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
1
Reviewed June 2022
Glitchy Hellish Nightmare
Traumatizing. Glitches crashed our restaurant multiple nights in a row. Can’t handle a complex restaurant. Fine for a 1 terminal retail operation, but RUN AWAY if you are a restaurant owner. Use Toast!
PROSThe price is the only good thing about this software. But you get what you pay for and it’s not worth the savings!
CONSThe software is so glitchy that it has been an epic fail! QR codes fail; printers randomly disconnect; the software double & triple prints tickets (but with delays so it seems like new tickets); tech support is terrible (often barely speaks English & can’t solve complex issues). No on-site support like competing products. We’ve spent thousands of dollars on staff trying to figure it out, but random glitches that have no explanation crash the iPads, QR codes and printing capacity. This doesn’t even scratch the surface of the issues we’ve had. The software cannot handle the complexity of a restaurant. NIGHTMARE!
Reason for choosing Square for Restaurants
Price
Reasons for switching to Square for Restaurants
Price. But it was not worth it. Get different software!
Camila
Restaurants, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2020
the best POS for restaurants
Square was a huge help for us as a restaurant this year. With covid-19 businesses had to move really fast to the online market and Square provides the tools to get there really fast and easy.
PROSIt is really easy to set up, the price is way better than the other systems in the market, it works with wifi and you can use it on your laptop, Ipad, smartphone. I love how they offer the CRM tool and even more I love how easy is to create a website for your restaurant with them.
CONSthey could improve some of the features so It is even easier and faster to select the items. for example to add more options to the conditional words ( add, yes, No, extra, etc...) they could put the option to replace (ex: replace Ham for turkey) so when we have a customer who wants to customize a product we do not have to write long sentences all the time, instead we can just click a few buttons and is done.
Reason for choosing Square for Restaurants
The quality of the product was better and for a better price
Reasons for switching to Square for Restaurants
Price, features, customer service.