About Square for Restaurants
Square for Restaurants pricing
Square for Restaurants has a free version and offers a free trial. Square for Restaurants paid version starts at US$60.00/month.
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Square for Restaurants Reviews
Feature rating
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Super easy to use and convenient!
I enjoy it a lot and will continue to use
Pros
I 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
Cons
The only con is that the fees get a little expensive at times, especially when you manually enter info
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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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!
Pros
Easy 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.
Cons
A 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.
Reasons for Switching to 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.- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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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!
Pros
The price is the only good thing about this software. But you get what you pay for and it’s not worth the savings!
Cons
The 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!
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Toast POSReasons for Choosing Square for Restaurants
Price. But it was not worth it. Get different software!Reasons for Switching to Square for Restaurants
Price- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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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.
Pros
It 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.
Cons
they 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.
Reasons for Choosing Square for Restaurants
Price, features, customer service.Switched From
Revel SystemsReasons for Switching to Square for Restaurants
The quality of the product was better and for a better price- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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The Obivious choice for Payment processing
The major benefits we experience are as follow: Payment processing is a breeze, we are able to integrate our system with Quick books seamlessly, the many option for accepting payment means we never miss out on being able to receive payment at any time, Customer service is very helpful and they genuinely care about helping your business succeed and the most important for us is we never have to think about it, it just works.
Pros
Square has streamlined my credit card processing immensely, We were using a different merchant service before that had higher fees and less intuitive features. Square is very useful for our staff accepting payments on site, at events, Bar Tending and processing catering invoice payments. it is fully integrated with our Quickbooks software for a streamlined process. The speed in which receiving credit to our bank account is also pleasantly fast. Finally being able to accept a credit card while in an out of service area (No Wifi/Cellular) is an excellent feature we have already taken advantage of.
Cons
There are no issues in the two years I have been using Square to report. The addition of NFC payments has made my life even better!
