Square for Restaurants
Restaurant management system with point-of-sale, kitchen display, and order management
- Also known as
- square-for-restaurants
Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is Square for Restaurants?
A cloud-based platform for restaurants combining point-of-sale terminals, kitchen display systems, and online order management, with integrations for delivery services, reservations, inventory, and accounting systems.
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.
Free plan available; paid plans include 30-day free trial
Square Free
FreeSquare Plus
Square Premium
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 (36)
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⇄
- Ring Cheer Chime
- Delivery platforms
- Web Accessibility
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.
- CAKE POSComplete restaurant payment system with round-the-clock human assistancelow · 49%
- Eats365Cloud-based restaurant management platform that centralizes ordering, payments, inventory, and operations in a single systemmedium · 54%
- SpotOnmedium · 71%
- Lightspeed RestaurantA cloud-based point-of-sale platform that handles retail operations from a single unified systemmedium · 73%
- FoodivCommission-free online ordering platform that combines ordering, POS, and kitchen operations for restaurantslow · 47%
- FlipdishCloud-based restaurant management platform combining point-of-sale, online ordering, and customer engagement toolsmedium · 64%
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 | 80 | 0.10 | 8.4 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 100 | 0.04 | 4.3 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 41 | 0.05 | 2.0 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 40 | 0.04 | 1.7 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
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 · 2026-09-22 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 26 | mediumsource · 2026-09-22 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | mediumsource · 2026-09-22 · 50% |
Pricing
Security
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