Phone and email support are available, though not 24/7. You'll also get custom invoicing, sales forecasting, and an offline mode. The card reader hardware is all you'll need, and it plugs into iPhone, iPad, or Android phone or tablets. Square Freeįree offers the ability to accept contactless and chip payments for credit and debit cards, with digital receipts and a customer tip prompt. Finally, Retail Premium and Restaurant Premium are available for a custom quote, and offer a custom feature set best for enterprises. They also offer two industry-specific plans, Retail and Restaurant, each for $60 per month per location. The most well-known is their free-forever plan, Free, which has all the features most small businesses need to get up and running.

These winning categories include business management features, stock management features, and business development features, as well as value for price, and support options/customer satisfaction. It's better than any other POS service we tested in five out of the six categories we tested. Our testing and research team found Square ranks highly almost across the board. Pricing is a big consideration, and Square's Free plan is available at no upfront cost, in comparison to the large one-time upfront fee that all QuickBooks plans use.

Square comes with better customer satisfaction scores than QuickBooks, although both services have the same 12/5 email, phone, and live chat support. However, QuickBooks stands above Square when it comes to three important features: QuickBooks has an accounting software while Square only has integrations with other services, QuickBooks supports a loyalty program at no extra charge while Square's loyalty features are a $25-per-month add-on, and QuickBooks offers a built-in training mode on all plans while Square does not. In addition, S quare has a restaurant-specific plan while QuickBooks does not. Square's features excel at sales management, inventory management, and marketing, while QuickBooks' features are limited to core POS needs. Square POS offers top-notch features, pricing, and support, while QuickBooks offers okay features, reasonable pricing, and good support.

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