Square for Restaurants
A restaurant booking system that brings in more business
Square for Restaurants integrates with OpenTable to allow you to view your floor plan, table and coursing information straight from your Square Dashboard to help you stay on top of service.
Deliver top-class table booking experience
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Quickly seat guests, better predict walk-in wait times and improve table turn rates with real-time visibility into table status.
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Better know your diner with order details from current and past visits for exceptional service.
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Keep diners coming back with tailored specials and events with diner insights based on order history and past spending.
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Review reporting in OpenTable, including shift performance, guest behaviour and turn times.
Square and OpenTable Integration
Square for Restaurants is an all-in-one POS solution for managing restaurants. OpenTable is the world’s largest restaurant booking platform.
Pairing the two together allows restaurant staff to have a real-time overview of the floor plan, table and coursing information from within the Square dashboard. This data can then be used to fuel service decisions from assigning tables to creating special offers.
How to sync Square for Restaurants and OpenTable
Please note that you need to use the paid plan (Square for Restaurants Plus) to sync with OpenTable. You will also need an active OpenTable Guest Center, Core or Pro account.
Sync Square for Restaurants Plus and OpenTable
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Log in to your OpenTable account
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Click Menu > Integrations
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Click the Square tile
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Sign in to your Square account
Square for Restaurant is more than just a point-of-sale system.
Square for Restaurants is a simple, yet powerful, solution for managing your restaurant end-to-end. It covers everything from creating staff rosters and managing inventory to marketing and running a loyalty programme. Here are just a few of the ways Square can help you to run your restaurant.
Accept all major payment types.
Payment processing your way. Accept all major types of payments quickly and securely, whether you’re tableside, behind the counter, online or on the go.
Floor management
Easily create and customise your restaurant floor plan just by dragging elements onto a grid and quickly make any updates with just a few clicks.
Kitchen display system
Square KDS powers up your restaurant by tracking prep times, routing orders to their correct stations and enabling custom ticket timers for maximum efficiency.
Free online ordering website
Create your restaurant website or online ordering page with Square Online. Built with flexible tools to accept online orders, promote repeat purchases and streamline food deliveries.
Manage your staff
Manage your staff all from your POS with the ability to import and split tips, and set shift rotas without the added hassle.
Build customer loyalty
Boost customer engagement with loyalty programmes for your diners. You can create custom profiles to store preferences and send marketing messages to offer exclusive discounts and news updates.
Square for Restaurants pricing
All three plans cover unlimited device use and have a processing rate of 1.6% per tap or insert. No hidden fees or lock-in contracts ever.
If you turn over $250,000 in card payments per year, you may be eligible for custom pricing packages.
Free
$0
Per month.
No hidden fees.
Plus
$129
Per month per location.
30-day free trial.
Premium
$
Custom pricing.
30 day free trial.
Find out why Australian restaurants choose Square
‘It goes without saying how beautiful Square hardware looks on the counter. It helps when the equipment we use looks just as stunning as the restaurant, right? Not only is it good-looking on the outside, but it’s also functional on the inside.’
Yasmina
Co-owner, No Bones, Byron Bay, NSW
2 locations
‘We’re a fast-paced QSR model, so we want to be efficient wherever we can. Square has streamlined the way customers order, from pick up, to the kitchen operations - it flows really well.’
Nathan & Dave
Co-owners, Bao Brothers, NSW
4 locations
‘We can simply open the Square app on our phones and assess the performance across thirty locations. We know which products are working and not working in real-time. This enables us to scale while maintaining the same level of attention to detail we had when we operated just one store.’
Nic Pestalozzi
Co-owner, Fishbowl, NSW, VIC and QLD
35 locations
‘It came down to cost for us. Once you’re paying for your fees subscriptions and devices, our old systems were more expensive. We did a bit of research, Square was simple and offered custom rates so it made sense and was more cost efficient to switch.’
Carla
Co-owner, T-Bone Brewing Co, TAS
2 locations
‘The user interface makes it so simple for us and our customers. Prior to Square, we used one of those bank EFTPOS machines with handwritten dockets. Now, we can check our stats at the end of the night just on our handheld device.’
Matt
Owner, Sonny & Ogee, Hobart, TAS
2 locations
Start using Square for Restaurants today.
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FAQs
An online restaurant booking system is a system that allows customers to make restaurant reservations online. It may also send automatic confirmation and/or reminders about the booking.
Square for Restaurants is a core set of tools for all restaurants. Square for Restaurants Plus includes extra functionality. For example with Square for Restaurants, you have a tool to create your own floor plan. With Square for Restaurants Plus, you can connect your Square account with OpenTable.
Using a restaurant reservation system is much more efficient than trying to manage restaurant reservations using paper books or even spreadsheets. It also reduces the possibility of human error (e.g. overbooking or double booking).
The best way to manage the bookings that your restaurant gets is to use an online restaurant booking system. For example, you can use Square for Restaurants linked with OpenTable.
The two main types of restaurant reservations are table reservations and first-come-first-served. In general, even small restaurants now tend to use table reservations. Very small and/or casual establishments may still use first-come-first-served.
1.6% card present rate applies for Square Sellers who sign up on or after 30 May 2024, or who signed up prior to this date using Square Terminal or Square Register. The rate of 1.9% will apply for all other Square Sellers who signed up prior to this date when using Square Reader, Square Stand or Tap to Pay, as listed in the Square Fee Schedule.