Square for Retail Pricing, Features, Reviews and Alternatives

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Janna: I'm Janna, and I'm an owner of a company in the arts and crafts industry. And I give Square For Retail four out of five stars. Before I started using Square, we used PayPal's Here checkout system. I used a pen and a piece of paper to write down all my sales for a while. And we also used the QuickBooks Intuit system for a while. And Square is just better. It's better than all of that. So we switched over to using Square, mainly because it connected directly to our manufacturing accounting software that we use, and made it really seamless for us to enter our sales and to cash people out, no matter where we were, and have all our sales automatically logged in our accounting software, which is great. Square has so many benefits. I mean, the credit card swiper was so easy. It just made it instantly that we could take credit cards, which increased our total number of sales by a huge percentage. I don't know what it is off the top of my head, but a lot of sales that we take because we have credit cards. It allowed us to do invoicing, which we could send to people, and save all of our different products that we sell right in the interface to cash people out. And my employees can have the app on their phone so that if they're working a show somewhere else, they can use their phone or their iPad as the register to cash people out. And it's just so versatile and it's so easy and it's so cheap and you don't have to pay for any extra equipment. It's great. So we integrated Square into our business. It was really easy. The main thing that was labor intensive was adding our products into it and adding our items into the catalog one at a time. But once you set it up once, it's set up and you don't have to deal with it or worry about it. It's easy to add new items to it. And once we had it set up, it was just a matter of putting out the sticker on our table that said, we accept payments via Square. And so many people are familiar with it that they just trusted and it makes it a lot easier to do business. So if you're thinking about getting Square for your business, I highly recommend doing it. If you want an easy, affordable way to take credit cards, it makes it super easy. I recommend investing in the chip reader part of the swiper and not just the regular swiper. It cuts down on your liability as far as taking people's cards, so you can do the chip cards. That was definitely worth it. Keep your chip reader swiper thing charged. Don't leave it plugged into your equipment all the time because it will drain the battery on the swiper and your equipment. But I think that's my main drawback, why it would get four instead of five, is that you can't leave it plugged in all the time.

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Chase M: My name is Chase. I am the owner of a branding and marketing firm and I give Square for Retail a four out of five. Some payment processing software that I've used in the past was PayPal, Cash App actually or even Zelle directly with my bank. PayPal's fees were just a little too steep for me and Cash App and Zelle for a professional look, it just doesn't look good to say, "Send me your payment via Cash App or Zelle." So those are some of the ones that I went with in the past and those are a couple of reasons that I went away from them, was for the professionalism. Some of the reasons why I chose Square for Retail is one, the professionalism of how it looks when you send that invoice over to a client. They have confidence that they are dealing with a true business, not just someone who's operating a quote unquote side hustle. It gives that real professional appeal. The fees are rather low, there are still fees that are associated with every transaction but they are comparatively low to other processors. Also, there are a myriad of other additional benefits with Square for Retail, such as sending over a quote. And if the client likes the quote, they can go ahead and immediately pay versus having to configure an invoice every time and going back and forth over quotes. You can send those out. Also, you could create recurring payments. So if you have a client that has you on retainer or someone who pays you monthly or bimonthly or whatever, you can set that up to automatically take those funds or charge their card or their account when that time is due that you've agreed upon. There are lots of other things, Square also now offers the ability for its vendors to sell gift cards. So it's a lot of really cool things with Square that made me go that direction. Because being able to sell your clients gift cards in this climate, especially with everything going on, is great because they may not use your service today but they may use it in a couple of months when they're able to. So those are some of the reasons that I went with Square for Retail. Integrating Square for Retail into my business was very easy. It's so easy to tell a client, "Of course, you're going to receive an invoice from me." It's branded for you, so the client isn't confused because it has your logo and everything at the bottom of your invoice. Also, installing it on my website was flawless. So my clients are actually able to check out online via my Square account. So that was super easy. It is very easy to incorporate that into your business, nothing technical at all. If you are looking to get Square for Retail for your business, I highly suggest it. If you have used PayPal or QuickBooks or any other sort of invoicing system or payment system for your clients, you will find that it integrates very well. And you are under no obligation to continue using them once you start the account. You could try it for a month, you don't like it, you prefer something else, you're not going to lose any money or anything by just giving it a try. I highly recommend it. So I hope you like it, I do give it a four out of five.