Once I did cancel I was charged massive amounts for equipment no longer  worth much.

Most store owners cashier don't know how to credit points. Confusing App and Confusing in-store experience.

The benefits of having Fivestars is great and helps clients see how valuable your business is.

This helps boost your business and return customers. A great way to have a rewards incentive for your customers, old and new.

I love how Fivestars sends all the latest deals straight to my phone, making it easy to use, find my deals, and remember what I have.

I am always looking for different ways to save money so I was definitely super thrilled about signing up the first time while I was shopping at Plato's.

Easy to navigate, customers love the option to choose their reward.

The frequency has also improved. The rewards platform is easy for customers to use and navigate through, making it a product that resonates with customers.

I really like the point system, too. When your getting close or at a reward, it emails you to let you know.

I like that it provides a central system that many places can integrate with, to make it easier for the users to keep track of their rewards. I like the coupons they send too.

It's super easy for the customers to use, too. All they have to do is type in their number, and they're done on their end.

I love the discounts/deals when I go to my favorite places that conveniently have Fivestar sitting there ready for me to punch in my number.

It is easy to see visually how many points I have and what rewards I have earned for various businesses I visit.

Price is reasonable for a pretty powerful platform. Documentation and setup guides are great.

If I have a bad signal it’s hard to use. That is really the only issue I have had with the program.

Easy to add points or redeem for rewards. Many useful fields for customer differentiation, makes marketing emails a snap.

Overall this is a great program. I have found it super easy to use and it is user friendly for all people whether they are tech-savvy or not.

And as users, they don’t notify us to use our points before the company opts out. Resulting in waste of points and eventually loss of customers.

It can be hard to click on individual icons that are overlapping over each other. It often says no businesses are found at first until you search yourself.

Small Business spending money on a useless platform.

I have enjoyed using Fivestars at business where everything is integrated, just be aware not all POS systems work with Fivestars.

Its super easy to use and understand and customer service is very helpful and knowledgeable.

I love the Fivestars software way that it helps you promote your business and provides loyalty rewards.

I like that I can earn points when I buy my vaping products from Rolling EZ. The discounts are pretty decent.

Crossroads is awesome for everyone. Use of their system is so easy and rapid.

It's been an awesome tool to reward loyal customers, and keep others coming back for more great deals that we have.

My overall experience with Fivestars has been amazing. I love that products give me the opportunity to save money at places that I frequent often.

Sometimes this app has crashed and it’s frustrating.

Overall I am happy with my membership to this program. Membership is free and you get some good perks from it.

Keeping bad reviews and unsatisfied customers from Trip Advisor.

It was easy to use and helps a lot with tracking points and log ins. Great way to promote good business practices.

I hope more establishments adopt Five Stars. I also like how they email me discount when I haven't been to an establishment in awhile.

This is an amazing way to network with other local businesses to build community for and with our customers.

I love being able to offer my customers the option of paying me with an emailed link. Many people do not like to give out their cc information and this is a great option for a direct sales business.

Great - love their customer service, they quickly send out new square devices and have always felt the transactions are safe and protected.

Best of all, payments to your account are very quick, with a fantastic option for instant transfer.

It was easy to use, the interface was nice, and setting up recurring payments (with automatic notices) was great.

I love the ease of use of this. It makes it easy to take payment from customers from the comfort of their vehicles.

It is also widely used across many small businesses, so clients are more comfortable to see it when I am collecting payments. The customer services is also top notch and very responsive.

The Data and reporting that is available is amazing. You can see everything about your business in order to make great business decisions.

I was just a beginner when it comes to processing credit cards. But, this was super easy to integrate.

Since then Square has gotten better and better. I generally have money in my account the next business day and if I agree to an additional 1% I can have it immediately.

It's great that there are a lot of possible integrations with other software. It is an amazing tool for small businesses.

I love how simple square is to use. The user interface is super simple in the app, and has great features for seeing trends, busy periods, etc. I have been so pleased.

I love that I can do events out of the office and take payments for those services. It has made those events so much better and more effective.

I love that I can accept payments almost anywhere at anytime. The ease of use is top notch and it is always reliable.

The only downside to the Square software was the lack of Wi-Fi compatibility and the short distance the square had with Wi-Fi as it frequently was reconnecting.

Had to stop using as Clients disliked the extra charge on their account. We would have them use this  to pay with credit cards on their accounts.

They were my first choice in the beginning, but after the 2 disputes and how bad they handled them, I went back to PayPal.

Fantastic ease of use, amazing functionality, user friendly, this is the easiest and best payment processor i've ever used.

We appreciate how easy Square integrates with IPad, we utilize our IPad with Square as our Credit Card processor and it works great.

My overall experience was a negative one. I was able to get it to work right once or twice but most of the time it just made It was having a very hard time being compatible with my iPhone.

To be able to take payments anywhere is great. Being mobile makes doing business during this time a very important business advantage.

Integrations is extremely easy. I liked everything about this product it is very convenient and a great tool.

It does everything that we need, it has a great website, great platform to create invoices and really good features for end of the year reports.

I love the portability and ease of use with Square. It has been wonderful for selling books at conventions.

I appreciate the ease of payments and immediate receipts straight to my device. It helps me keep by budget on track.

This software was excellent for ease of use and speed of accepted payments. Long the leader in this industry, we were thoroughly impressed.

I love how square makes it so easy to accept payments. It’s great for small businesses and startups.

Square has amazing customer support and provides great tech at reasonable prices for me and my freelance aspirations.

There is more competition coming along that is good, but Square is still a solid competitor. I love the UI and how easy things are on the user end and administrative end.

I dislike the fees that are charged for people processing payments for each transaction.

Square is a great company that is also focused on design and its ability to improve how we spend our money in a cashless age.

The company I work for uses square, and we love it. I really like that there are no monthly fee's and the pricing is very affordable.

I loved the ability to use it with a phone, tablet, or computer. The versatility was great.

We are very disappointed with how long they will hold the funds before transferring, there is often no rhyme or reason as to the length of time the funds are held.

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Multiple Payment Options

Rewards Management

No-Card Loyalty System

Payment Processing

Activity Tracking

Customer Segmentation

Debit/Credit Card Processing

Referral Tracking

Credit Card Processing

In-Person Payments

Transaction Monitoring

Promotions Management

Customer Activity Tracking

Online Payments

Survey/Poll Management

Data Security

Membership Management

Payment Fraud Prevention

ACH Payment Processing

PCI Compliance

Activity Dashboard

Dashboard

Discount Management

Loyalty Cards

Reporting/Analytics

Point of Sale (POS)

Member Portal

Loyalty Program

Rewards Points

Customer Database

Email Marketing

Performance Metrics

Alerts/Notifications

SMS Marketing

Customer History

Campaign Management

For Small Businesses

Email/Help Desk

FAQs/Forum

Knowledge Base

Phone Support

Chat

2-10

11-50

51-200

201-500

FiveStars

Live Online

Webinars

Documentation

Square Payments is a cloud-based payment processing tool for businesses within the retail, food and beverage, and health and fitness industries. Key features include fraud prevention, dispute management, touch-free transactions, automated invoicing, and cash flow monitoring. 


Square Payments’ built-in analytics uses machine learning to track fraudulent activities and monitor transactions in real-time. It can send automatic alerts on suspicious activities. Automatic receipts speed up the checkout processes and ensure a digital record of all purchases is kept. Additionally, this tool comes with an activity dashboard, which consolidates all customer data and provides timely updates on sales and inventory. 


Square Payments is available on a per-transaction basis and support is provided via documentation, forums, emails, phone, FAQs, and video tutorials. The application involves Terminal API and Reader SDK to streamline payment processing and offers integrations with third-party point-of-sale software and service providers including Mailchimp, Ritual, WooCommerce, and Intuit QuickBooks.



Contactless NFC

Electronic Payments

Recurring/Subscription Billing

Mobile Payments

SSL Security

Electronic Signature

Invoice Management

Gift Card Management

Offline Access

Mobile Access

Compliance Management

Mobile Card Reader

Invoice Processing

Reporting & Statistics

Fraud Detection

Cash Management

Billing & Invoicing

Receipt Management

Cryptocurrency Processing

Cash Transactions

Third-Party Integrations

Partial Payments

Per swipe/dip/tap: 2.6% + $.10
Keyed in: 3.5% + $.15 per transaction
Online & invoices: 2.9% + $.30 per transaction

Custom pricing packages are also available. Contact Square for more information.

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