Stripe vs Square Payments: Which is best for you?

Features like subscriptions/billing, marketplace / platform support (via Connect), fraud-detection tools, payout scheduling, and dashboard analytics level it up beyond a simple payment gateway.

Stripe caused me to create over 250 checkout pages on my website and didn’t tell me that I had to click a setting on their website so that I would receive notifications that a sale was made.

Overall, Square Payments is a very good payment-processing solution for small-to-mid sized businesses, startups, side hustles, or anyone who values ease of setup and flexibility over deep customization or maximum cost efficiency.

The flat percentage-per-transaction model can be more expensive than custom merchant-account rates if you do a lot of sales, or have large-ticket items — so for high-volume businesses, fees may become significant.