Square for Restaurants
Payment processing and point-of-sale system for restaurants and service businesses
- Also known as
- square-for-restaurants
Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is Square for Restaurants?
A cloud-based operating system for restaurants and food service businesses that integrates payment processing, order and inventory management, staff scheduling, customer loyalty programs, and real-time analytics in a unified platform.
Square for Restaurants pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $0/mo (free tier). Paid plans $49–$149/mo per location, plus transaction processing fees.
Free
FreeSquare Plus
Square Premium
Add-ons
- Square KDS (Kitchen Display System)$20/mo
- Square Kiosk$30/mo
What Square for Restaurants does
The capabilities that matter for restaurant pos software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Venue type
- Multi-concept
- PCI DSS compliant
- ✓
- EMV chip / contactless payments
- ✓
- Offline mode
- ✓
- Online ordering
- ✓
- Reservations / waitlist
- ✓
- Loyalty / gift cards
- ✓
- Kitchen display system (KDS)
- ✓
- Inventory management
- ✓
- Delivery integrations (DoorDash/Uber Eats/Grubhub)
- ✓
- Proprietary hardware ecosystem (terminals/KDS)
- ✓
- Multi-location support
- ✓
- Target segment
- SMB / independent
- Payment processing
- Built-in / proprietary processor
- Pricing model
- % of transactions
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- iOS
- Web
- Android
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (33)
Independently observed- DoorDash⇄•
- Grubhub⇄•
- Uber Eats⇄•
- Toast
- Wix⇄
- WooCommerce⇄
- OpenTable
- Resy OS
- Thrive Inventory⇄
- SKU IQ⇄
- Stream
- Bookkeep⇄
- QuickBooks⇄
- Xero⇄
- NetSuite⇄
- Sage Intacct⇄
- Zoho⇄
- INFI
- KioskBuddy
- Jotform
- Kliken
- Facebook→
- Instagram→
- Printful
- Shippo
- SmarterSign
- Weglot
- Fomo
- Trustpilot
- Poptin
- Whoosh
- SyncPenguin⇄
- Delivery platforms
Square for Restaurants FAQ
Common questions about Square for Restaurants, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Square for Restaurants?
A cloud-based operating system for restaurants and food service businesses that integrates payment processing, order and inventory management, staff scheduling, customer loyalty programs, and real-time analytics in a unified platform. It is indexed under Restaurant POS Software.
Is Square for Restaurants free?
Square for Restaurants offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $49 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does Square for Restaurants support?
Square for Restaurants supports the web, iOS and Android. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Can Square for Restaurants be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Square for Restaurants, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
What does Square for Restaurants integrate with?
We have confirmed 33 integrations for Square for Restaurants, including Delivery platforms, DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber Eats, Toast, Wix, WooCommerce and OpenTable, plus 25 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
What security certifications does Square for Restaurants have?
We have independently confirmed ISO 27001 for Square for Restaurants. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Square for Restaurants not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Source: https://squareup.com/security
Where is Square for Restaurants available?
Square for Restaurants is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.
Square for Restaurants alternatives
Other restaurant pos software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- HungerRushThe POS Partner Behind Every Great Guest Experiencemedium · 51%
- Eats365Cloud-based restaurant management platform that centralizes ordering, payments, inventory, and operations in a single systemmedium · 54%
- SpotOnA point-of-sale system for small businesses that combines hardware, payment processing, and reportinghigh · 75%
- CAKE POSRestaurant POS system with integrated payment processing and no monthly software feeslow · 49%
- FlipdishAI-powered unified restaurant management and online orderingmedium · 65%
- PAR Brink POSThreat detection and loss prevention system for restaurant operationslow · 23%
Compare Square for Restaurants
Side by side against other restaurant pos software, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
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| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.09 | 9.4 | ✓ |
| Price level | 50 | 0.10 | 5.3 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 100 | 0.04 | 4.3 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 44 | 0.05 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 40 | 0.04 | 1.7 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
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Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 7 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Kds: Yes · Pci dss: Yes · Inventory: Yes · Venue type: multi · Offline mode: Yes · Reservations: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-04 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 32 | mediumsource · 2026-09-04 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | mediumsource · 2026-09-04 · 50% |
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Security
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