Compare Square for Restaurants and Square Point of Sale

With Square for Restaurants and Clearpay, customers to pay for in person transactions in four instalments over six weeks.

• If you’re eligible, you can accept Clearpay payments in store via your Square for Restaurants POS app.
• Clearpay in-person is available with Square for Restaurants Free, Plus and Premium plans.
• For all transactions, merchants get paid in full – immediately.

Learn more about Clearpay and Square.

Square sellers using Clearpay get paid the full amount at the time of purchase, minus a processing fee on the total order. Enabling Clearpay with Square is free — there are no monthly fees or startup costs. You only pay when you make a sale for in-person transactions. There are no processing fees charged on the remaining installments or if your customer makes a late payment.

The processing rate for all Clearpay transactions is 6% + 30p.

Note: Clearpay rates are fixed and do not vary by subscription type, hardware, or custom pricing.

You can go to Payment Methods to enable or disable Clearpay at any time.

Note: The setting for In-person payments with Clearpay is global and applies across all Square products that can also take Clearpay payments in-person. This includes other online platforms such as Square Point of Sale, Square Appointments, Square for Retail and Virtual Terminal. There isn’t a way to enable/disable Clearpay only for Square for Restaurants at this time.

To see if you are eligible for Clearpay, visit our In-Person eligibility.

1. Visit the Home page of your online Square Dashboard and select POS Systems > Square For Restaurants tab.
2. Click See Plans > Select Pro Pricing.
3. Select Get Started for Free to begin your 30-day free trial of Square for Restaurants.

Square for Restaurants Plus POS features are not available on Square Register. However, you can still use Square for Restaurants Plus features such as Advanced Reporting, Square Device Settings and the Team Management free plan from your Square Dashboard.

1. From your Square Dashboard select Settings > Business > Pricing and Subscriptions.
2. Click Unsubscribe.

Yes! Order Manager, which allows for click and collect and delivery, is included with the Square for Restaurants Free plan. Learn how to set up click and collect and delivery.

With the free version of Square for Restaurants, you’ll get access to all of the familiar reports, including the in-app Sales Report, Item Sales and Category Sales. With Restaurants Plus, you will get access to additional reports like the live sales report in-app, category rollup sales in Dashboard and in-app, menu reporting, paid team management reports and more. See table above for the full list of included reports.