Square Point of Sale
Coffee, best served with Square.
The coffee shop POS system that goes hand in hand with cafes.
Square Point of Sale is an all-in-one solution for coffee shops. It helps you take orders in seconds, drive repeat customers, and grow your business, all with a sleek design made to look good in any cafe.
Thomas
La Barba
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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
Above stats based on internal Square transaction data from June 2014 to June 2023.
Try our coffee shop point of sale firsthand.
See what Square Point of Sale can do for your coffee shop.
Keep the line moving.
Built for efficiency to help you quickly serve customers again and again:
- Set up and get started easily.
- Train employees and staff in less than an hour.
- Create items and modifiers with just a few clicks.
Optimize 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 Customer Directory.
- Use Square Staff and Square Payroll to help make running your backend easier.
Grow your business.
Integrations that turn your point of sale into so much more:
- Target existing customers with Square Email Marketing and Square Text Message 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, dip, swipe, and more.
Keep your labor costs in line — not your diners.
Square Kiosk is a self-serve ordering solution that includes hardware, software, and payments. No third-party devices or programs needed.
- Cut wait times and free up your staff.
- Bump up check sizes (and satisfaction) with upgrades, add-ons, and customization.
- Update menus instantly when items are 86’d on the POS or KDS
“I think Square is really good for coffee shops because it’s fast and reliable.”
Rachel, Aroom
Rachel
Aroom
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Trusted by coffee shops since 2014.
“Being a startup is stressful enough. You don’t want to deal with software, you don’t want to add any more stress. You want to make it as simple and easy as possible.”
— Rachel, Aroom
Seattle, WA
“There is a pretty clear correlation between our Square Loyalty program and a significant increase in average ticket price and average revenue. Square makes a lot of things so simple that a business owner can just set them up and forget about it.”
— Thomas, La Barba
Salt Lake City, UT
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
2.6% + 10 cents per tap, dip, or swipe
Point of sale starting at
$0 with Tap to Pay on iPhone and Android
Get a custom rate.
We can create custom pricing packages for some businesses that process more than $250K in card sales.
Learn more about coffee shops and Square.
FAQ
Download the Square Point of Sale app and sign in to open your account. Getting set up to accept credit cards on Square only takes a few minutes. 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 toward more important things, like better ingredients for your baked goods or cafe.
Of course. Square Loyalty is built right into Square Point of Sale and works perfectly for cafes, bakeries, restaurants — you name it. Square Loyalty starts at just $45 per month. Enroll 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 provide all the tools a business needs to run and grow. With a synced online store, contactless in-person sales, invoicing, team management, loyalty programs, marketing, inventory management, and third-party integrations, everything you need for your cafe or bakery is waiting for you.
Square Online lets you design a website that fits your business’s online ordering and fulfillment 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 curbside pickup and delivery.
Yes. Once you enter your items, you’ll automatically get alerts when inventory gets low. And because it’s a cloud-based POS, you’ll have inventory for all locations automatically synced.
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.