Square Point of Sale
Coffee, best served with Square
The coffee shop POS system that goes hand in hand with cafés
Square Point of Sale is an all-in-one solution for coffee shops. It helps you take orders in seconds, move queues quickly, drive repeat customers and grow your business, all with a sleek design made to look good in any café.
‘There’s no other POS system as fast or easy to understand as Square.’
Arvind Khedun, Brew Lab Specialty Coffee
Arvind
Brew Lab Specialty Coffee
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890 million+
coffees sold.1
$8.1 billion+ in coffee shop sales.2
748 million+ coffee shop transactions.3
1 Using Square Point of Sale 2 in coffee shop sales processed 3 through Square Point of Sale
The global stats above are based on internal Square transaction data from June 2014 to June 2023.
Try our coffee shop point of sale first-hand.
See what Square Point of Sale can do for your coffee shop.
Keep the queue moving.
Built for efficiency to help you serve customers quickly again and again:
- Set up and get started easily.
- Take payments quickly and easily.
- Train employees and staff in less than an hour.
Optimise with insights.
Features to help you reach volume goals:
- Get insights into your most popular items and busiest hours to help inform business decisions.
- Manage repeat customers and grow your customer base with Square Customer Directory.
- Use Square Team Management to help make running your back end easier.
Grow your business.
Integrations that turn your point of sale into so much more:
- Target existing customers with Square Email Marketing to help drive orders.
- Integrate with online orders, Square Gift Cards and Square Loyalty to provide your customers with an even better experience.
- Offer customers the most ways to pay – tap, insert and more.
‘We’re a growing business. Square has made our life a lot easier.’
Jonathan Hughes, Shoe Lane Coffee
Jonathan
Shoe Lane Coffee
Trusted by coffee shops since 2014.
‘We love the sleek Square hardware, especially the tablet, and the reporting functionality. The data helps us; it gives us the ability to plan better and have more clarity.’
– Suzanne, Artybaker
Dublin
Hardware that looks as good as your coffee shop.
Pricing
Square Point of Sale software is free to use. There are no setup or monthly fees. Only pay when you take a payment.
Processing rate
1.75% + VAT per chip and PIN or contactless payment
Manual card entry
2% + VAT with Square Point of Sale
2.5% + VAT with card on file, Square Virtual Terminal or Square Invoices
1.4% + 25 cent + VAT: EU and EEA cards for online payments
2.9% + 25 cent + VAT: UK and non-EEA cards for online payments
Get a custom rate.
Does your business process over €100,000 annually? Contact sales for help onboarding.
Contact sales
How our rates work
Calculate your transaction fees
Features
| Cost comparison | Square | Clover | Toast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract and breakage fee | No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Card-present processing fee for EU cards | 1.75% + VAT for businesses processing under €100k. Custom rate available for over €100k. | Quote pricing | Quote pricing |
| Additional set fee per transaction | No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Next-business-day transfers | Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Chargeback and compliance | |||
| PCI compliance | Yes |
No |
No |
| Chargeback fees | No |
No up to €100k | Yes |
| Chargeback management | Yes |
No |
No |
| Next-business-day transfers | Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Hardware | |||
| Monthly fee | No |
No |
Yes |
| All-in-one register with customer display and built-in software | Yes |
No |
Yes |
| POS app compatible with iOS and iPad | Yes |
No |
No |
| Portable POS machine for tableside ordering and payment | Yes |
No |
No |
| Solutions designed for you | |||
| Kitchen display system | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Fast order entry | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Table management | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Cash management | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Item availability and item count | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Online store | Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Online ordering for restaurants | Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Loyalty programme software | Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Email marketing software | Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Team management software | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| 24/7 customer support | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Learn more from other Square coffee shop sellers.
FAQs
Download the Square Point of Sale app and sign in to open your account. It only takes a few minutes to get set up to accept credit and debit cards on Square. And with a few more minutes, you can set up items and take advantage of our entire suite of products to help you run and grow your coffee shop.
Yes. Customers can redeem Square Gift Cards in person at your Square Point of Sale or on your Square Online website. If you have multiple store locations, your Square Gift Cards can be redeemed at any of your stores.
Square Point of Sale software is free to use, so you can put that money towards more important things, like better ingredients for your baked goods.
Of course. Square Loyalty is built directly into Square Point of Sale and works perfectly for cafés, bakeries, restaurants – you name it. Square Loyalty starts at just €39 + VAT per month. Enrol and reward customers directly from your Square Point of Sale or Square Online. No additional software or hardware is needed.
Square Point of Sale is part of a unique ecosystem of offerings that provides all the tools a business needs to run and grow. With a synced online store, contactless in-person sales, invoicing, team management, loyalty programmes, marketing, inventory management and third-party integrations, everything you need for your café or bakery is waiting for you.
Square Online lets you design a website that fits your business’s online ordering and fulfilment needs. You can build a full website or ordering page and integrate it with your existing site to start taking orders. You can offer customers collection and delivery.
Yes. Once you enter your items, you’ll automatically get alerts when inventory gets low. And since it’s a cloud-based POS, you’ll have inventory for all locations synced automatically.
Absolutely. It’s free to send unlimited invoices through Square. They’re easy to track, and you can set up automatic reminders so you don’t have to spend time tracking down customers.