Square Point of Sale (POS)

Name: Square Point of Sale (POS)
Rating: 4.8 (594826 reviews)
Author: Block, Inc.

Payments & Business Dashboard

Free

595K Ratings
Ages

4+
In-App Controls
Category

Business
Developer

Block, Inc.
Language

EN
+ 4 More
Size

984.7
MB

Square Point of Sale (POS) is the all-in-one payments processing app designed for any business. Whether you’re a retail, a restaurant, or a service business, you’ll have all the features you need to run your business at your fingertips. Select from multiple modes tailored to your industry to simplify business operations, to deliver exceptional customer experiences, and to boost your bottom line. Take any payment Accept payments in person, online, or over the phone. Let customers pay with all major credit cards, debit cards, cash, digital wallets, QR codes, payment links, Cash App Pay, Tap to Pay on iPhone, and gift cards. Get started quickly Whether you’re a new business or looking to switch your point of sale system, we make it fast and easy to get started. Receive recommendations for a POS solution that aligns with your business needs, ensuring you’re set from the start. Choose your mode Access multiple POS modes equipped with unique settings, features, and functionalities for different business needs. •For all businesses: Set up instantly to start taking payments and manage your business. - Free point-of-sale system - Real-time reports in Dashboard - Inventory management •For restaurants: Access management tools designed for full-service restaurants, quick-service restaurants, and bars. - Quick order entry - Order-ready mobile text - Course and seat management (iPad only) - Preauthorized bar tabs (iPad only) •For retail: Track inventory, customer orders, and sales effortlessly in-store or online. - Advanced inventory tools - Multichannel selling - Customer profiles •For beauty: Simplify scheduling and appointments. - 24/7 online booking - No-show protection - Automated reservation reminders •For services: Manage appointments, send invoices, and accept payments effortlessly. - Invoices and estimates - Contracts - Project management Download the Square Point of Sale today and explore how Square can grow with you — from fostering customer relationships and managing staff to accessing advanced reporting and offering integrated banking solutions. Disclosure: Some features are only available in the United States. Square Bitcoin is not offered to NY Sellers or non-US Sellers. Availability subject to change and regulatory approval. Bitcoin’s value is volatile and can change quickly. Bitcoin transactions are irreversible and may experience occasional delays or payment failures. Bitcoin services are provided by Block, Inc., licensed where required. Block, Inc. operates in NY as Block of Delaware and is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the NYDFS. Need more assistance? Reach Square Support at 1-855-700-6000 or contact us by mail at Block, Inc., 1955 Broadway, Suite 600, Oakland, CA 94612.

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

595K Ratings

I wish I could give 5 Negative stars!!
12/03/2017

Sergio LA
Before iOS 11 was released Square was good. I had just couple issues here and there but nothing mayor. Then iOS 11 arrived and Square became the worst POS solution for small-medium business. Their hardware started to have a lot of issues, the Square stand, the chip reader and the printer stopped working all together. If you contact Square support for help they will blame Apple for all the failures of their own Square hardware. Everybody knows developers have access months in advance to test their apps and hardware before a new iOS get release to the general public. Now if you visit Square Seller Community to look for answers to fix this, all you see is hundred of complains from business owners. Square Product Managers just are giving temporary solution to deal with this, like ¨take out the iPad from the stand, reset the iPad, etc. Meanwhile Square timing could not be better to release their own and new POS system, at the same time pushing their new system through an email campaign to us, the same frustrated business owners who are waiting for more than two months for a final solution. It has costed us time, effort and a lot of money, we have had spend many hours trying to fix this on our own, we had to explain to our customer over and over why the transaction take forever to complete, all this time and hassle and still not an apology or a word from the leadership at Square to us. Maybe when a large number of their customer start switching to different POS solutions like Clover, they will realize they should treat their customers better.
I wish I could give 5 Negative stars!!
12/03/2017

Sergio LA

Before iOS 11 was released Square was good. I had just couple issues here and there but nothing mayor. Then iOS 11 arrived and Square became the worst POS solution for small-medium business. Their hardware started to have a lot of issues, the Square stand, the chip reader and the printer stopped working all together. If you contact Square support for help they will blame Apple for all the failures of their own Square hardware. Everybody knows developers have access months in advance to test their apps and hardware before a new iOS get release to the general public. Now if you visit Square Seller Community to look for answers to fix this, all you see is hundred of complains from business owners. Square Product Managers just are giving temporary solution to deal with this, like ¨take out the iPad from the stand, reset the iPad, etc. Meanwhile Square timing could not be better to release their own and new POS system, at the same time pushing their new system through an email campaign to us, the same frustrated business owners who are waiting for more than two months for a final solution. It has costed us time, effort and a lot of money, we have had spend many hours trying to fix this on our own, we had to explain to our customer over and over why the transaction take forever to complete, all this time and hassle and still not an apology or a word from the leadership at Square to us. Maybe when a large number of their customer start switching to different POS solutions like Clover, they will realize they should treat their customers better.
Great app for small business, okay for friend to friend
11/27/2020

jmcgrath20
I absolutely love this app and I would recommend it to anyone who has a small business or more. It does a great job of organizing the transactions that take place throughout the business day, week, month, year, what have you, as well as helping to keep your books straight for tax purposes. The only thing I would complain about, and it is just due to my impatience, is the mere fact that the availability of funds from time of transaction to the time in which that money is accessible seems, to me, a little excessive. Now, yes. I understand that it’s electronic communication and banks have to talk with other banks to make sure the funds are transferred to the correct account from the correct account; so on and so forth but it just still seems to drag on. Especially when you’re in need of said funds immediately. This leads me to my last point with regard to the slow availability times. What is the point of an instant transfer if the money in which you will be transferring is tied up in limbo? Seems to me if it is only that easy to do an instant transfer in which you require a fee to use, why can we not access our incoming monies just as quickly considering a fee per transaction anyway. Well, there you have it. An honest review from a loyal and honest customer. Hope that it may help to improve the already seamless work flow SquareApp provides as well as to help a new comer decide whether this product is right for them!
Great app for small business, okay for friend to friend
11/27/2020

jmcgrath20

I absolutely love this app and I would recommend it to anyone who has a small business or more. It does a great job of organizing the transactions that take place throughout the business day, week, month, year, what have you, as well as helping to keep your books straight for tax purposes. The only thing I would complain about, and it is just due to my impatience, is the mere fact that the availability of funds from time of transaction to the time in which that money is accessible seems, to me, a little excessive. Now, yes. I understand that it’s electronic communication and banks have to talk with other banks to make sure the funds are transferred to the correct account from the correct account; so on and so forth but it just still seems to drag on. Especially when you’re in need of said funds immediately. This leads me to my last point with regard to the slow availability times. What is the point of an instant transfer if the money in which you will be transferring is tied up in limbo? Seems to me if it is only that easy to do an instant transfer in which you require a fee to use, why can we not access our incoming monies just as quickly considering a fee per transaction anyway. Well, there you have it. An honest review from a loyal and honest customer. Hope that it may help to improve the already seamless work flow SquareApp provides as well as to help a new comer decide whether this product is right for them!
Terrible for small businesses/sole-proprietors
12/29/2022

Green veggie
I downloaded square to be able to start accepting credit card payments, and in the very beginning they they were great however that soon changed. After my third sale they suspended my account and asked for more information in addition to what I had already provided. I immediately answered their questions and explained in detail what the nature of my business was (buying and reselling used items) and uploaded all the personal & financial documents they requested. Shortly afterwards I received a notification that they rejected my answers and will not be allowing me to transfer the funds I earned from my sales out of their app and told me my only option was to issue a refund to a customer who had already received and was in possession of the products I sold to him. I’m guessing from my experience that if you are an established business with large accounts I’m assuming you would have a better interaction with them, but if you are a smaller business that doesn’t do many sales and is just starting out, my advice would be to find another payment processor that wouldn’t mind working with a small business rather than square. As if small business owners don’t have enough to deal with, they will make the entire process of accepting debit/credit cards 10x more difficult than it needs to be by freezing the funds from your own sales and then will make you jump through endless hoops just to get access to your own money. 100% would NOT recommend!

Developer Response
We set a high standard for ourselves, and we’re so sorry to hear this was not met in your interaction with Square.
Terrible for small businesses/sole-proprietors
12/29/2022

Green veggie

I downloaded square to be able to start accepting credit card payments, and in the very beginning they they were great however that soon changed. After my third sale they suspended my account and asked for more information in addition to what I had already provided. I immediately answered their questions and explained in detail what the nature of my business was (buying and reselling used items) and uploaded all the personal & financial documents they requested. Shortly afterwards I received a notification that they rejected my answers and will not be allowing me to transfer the funds I earned from my sales out of their app and told me my only option was to issue a refund to a customer who had already received and was in possession of the products I sold to him. I’m guessing from my experience that if you are an established business with large accounts I’m assuming you would have a better interaction with them, but if you are a smaller business that doesn’t do many sales and is just starting out, my advice would be to find another payment processor that wouldn’t mind working with a small business rather than square. As if small business owners don’t have enough to deal with, they will make the entire process of accepting debit/credit cards 10x more difficult than it needs to be by freezing the funds from your own sales and then will make you jump through endless hoops just to get access to your own money. 100% would NOT recommend!
Developer Response 12/31/2022
We set a high standard for ourselves, and we’re so sorry to hear this was not met in your interaction with Square.
Withholding my money for 90 days without explanation
04/07/2022

Colt-R
I know many people that use square and like it my experience wasn’t so good I got everything all set up no problem, took my first payment than after that I couldn’t transfer my money. I received a notification saying that I had more setup that needed to be done so I went through the 11 step set up questions/ info that they asked for shortly after that I received an email said that my setup was submitted successfully and it would take 2 days to review. 4 hours later (on a Sunday) I received an email saying that my account was deactivated with no explanation why, so I called them the next day to try to figure out why and all they could tell me is they couldn’t support my business. I did some research to see if anyone else had this issue and apparently it fairly common. So I called again the next day to try to get it figured out and get my money that they are holding and got the run around I ended up talking with someone in account services and she couldn’t tell my why it was deactivated, they only thing she would say is I could refund the payment and ask for a check from the customer (who requested payment by credit card) she repeated herself 4 times and than hung up the phone on me while I was asking her a question. I would recommend that NOBODY use square due to this customer service or lack of service now I have to wait 90 days to get paid when I was depending on this money to continue doing business
Withholding my money for 90 days without explanation
04/07/2022

Colt-R

I know many people that use square and like it my experience wasn’t so good I got everything all set up no problem, took my first payment than after that I couldn’t transfer my money. I received a notification saying that I had more setup that needed to be done so I went through the 11 step set up questions/ info that they asked for shortly after that I received an email said that my setup was submitted successfully and it would take 2 days to review. 4 hours later (on a Sunday) I received an email saying that my account was deactivated with no explanation why, so I called them the next day to try to figure out why and all they could tell me is they couldn’t support my business. I did some research to see if anyone else had this issue and apparently it fairly common. So I called again the next day to try to get it figured out and get my money that they are holding and got the run around I ended up talking with someone in account services and she couldn’t tell my why it was deactivated, they only thing she would say is I could refund the payment and ask for a check from the customer (who requested payment by credit card) she repeated herself 4 times and than hung up the phone on me while I was asking her a question. I would recommend that NOBODY use square due to this customer service or lack of service now I have to wait 90 days to get paid when I was depending on this money to continue doing business

This update includes minor bug fixes and performance improvements. We update our apps regularly to make sure they’re at 100%, so we suggest turning on automatic updates on devices running Square Point of Sale. Thanks for selling with Square. Questions? We’re here to help: square.com/help.

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Seller: Block, Inc.
Size: 984.7 MB
Category: Business
Compatibility: Requires iOS 16.0 or later.

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Languages: English and 4 more

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