What is Square for Restaurants?
Square for Restaurants is a point-of-sale platform built from the ground up with software, hardware, and payments to streamline your entire restaurant operation. It’s built for front of house and back of house. And it’s built for speed.
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83 Likeliness to Recommend
92 Plan to Renew
79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+72 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Square for Restaurants?
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Saves Time
- Performance Enhancing
Cons
- Under Delivered
- Less Generous
- Less Transparent
How to read the Emotional Footprint
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Advanced Reporting Analytics
Payment Processing
Integrations
Workforce Management
Check Settlement Types
Mobile Capabilities
Kitchen Course Management
PCI Compliance
Advanced Compliance & Statutory
Inventory Recipe Management
Multiple Venue Property Concept Support
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Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
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Business Value Created
Ease of Data Integration
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Ease of IT Administration
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Ease of Customization
Square for Restaurants Reviews
yoko c.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Oct 2021
Square for Restaurants the best choice
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Square for Restaurants from other similar products?
Square for Restaurants is POS software for full-service, quick-service, bars, and cafes of all sizes. It works with all smart devices and uses cloud features, which means your data is stored on Square's servers and transferred to your device via the cloud. It can be used with or without an Internet connection, and its payment system is straightforward, dependable, and secure.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Free version with the basics to get started, extremely easy to use and learn, designed specifically for the restaurant industry, with integrated payment processing that accepts all major credit cards, flat payment processing fees, and the most important section of extremely diverse and well-sorted menus.
What do you dislike most about this product?
There are no issues that come to mind; I anticipate that new features will be added as more restaurants migrate to a digital menu and payment process.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The following are the primary benefits we've discovered: Payment processing is extremely simple; there are a variety of payment options; customer service is extremely helpful and genuinely interested in assisting your company's success; and, most importantly, we never have to think about it; it just works.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Yazunari T.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Oct 2021
online knowledge with answers to common questions.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Square for Restaurants from other similar products?
What differs is the quick solution you have to receive credit and debit payments in person connected online. claims that you can register on their website in as little as five minutes and start using your account right away. Once you've signed up, you can contact square toll free from 9 a.m. at 9 p.m. Eastern Time Monday through Friday or between 11 a.m. M. And 7 p.m. M. on the weekends. Elavon, which is square's partner bank, also offers 24-hour phone support. And if you get stuck or just want to learn how to use account features, there is an online knowledge base with answers to common questions.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Companies that can benefit from volume discounts Companies looking for a processor with no monthly fee Customers who want to use other functions such as free online stores
What do you dislike most about this product?
Companies in high risk industries Companies looking for free hardware
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Some other companies in our ranking offer rates that may be lower, but require you to pay a monthly fee. Depending on the details of your company's normal monthly credit card transaction volume, this may or may not be a better deal than signing up with this platform. Some also offer free credit card readers when you sign up for an account. You can also set up a free online store that is fully hosted for you and can receive payments from your customers.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Hideo A.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Oct 2021
satisfied customer and so far they have succeeded
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Square for Restaurants from other similar products?
For those who do not work or have errors after having placed the apis correctly, they should only enable the billing fields, since the plugin needs several to work correctly and if you have a plugin that hides or simplifies the payment page you will not be able to complete The subscription. Achieve that the plugin will work, however, being a free plugin it is not supported and you must look for the configuration and support on your own. Excellent app I have been using it for a long time and no problem is generating profits.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It can seduce you with its low commissions but it has a big problem that made us lose a lot of money and customers in our virtual store ... Once a user makes a purchase, it is not credited until the people of Square feel like calling the user to question him to verify and prove the purchase, this call can take hours. Online purchases are emotional and if hours after the transaction is made they call you for an interrogation, it represents a big problem! Unlike other gateways such as Payu or Mercado Pago that the accreditation of transactions is immediate. I don't recommend Square at all!
What do you dislike most about this product?
in my case it was a missing field at checkout. Square requests document type and document number. check the plugins that you have active, if the configuration of the Checkout Field Editor plugin is wrong, you get that error
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Everything is fine until you have the first problem. I lost access because my password supposedly expired due to lack of use, with a green reputation and being a leading market. When you lose access to the free market, you lose access to your money, which should be illegal. When you try to contact them, there is agony if you cannot enter the application, much less contact them, because the contact is from within.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing