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Square

About Square

Square provides a point of sale platform and related hardware and software for businesses to take payments and manage operations. The company offers hardware devices for checkout. Square includes tools for managing staff, customers, and cash flow. It offers banking features including instant access to funds and loans. Square connects with third-party apps to extend business management.

Products

  • Square Register: A checkout device described as running the business on one side and allowing customers to check out on the other.
  • Square Handheld: A portable point-of-sale device.
  • Square Terminal: A point-of-sale device that prints receipts.
  • Square Stand: An iPad-based point-of-sale or self-service kiosk stand.
  • Square Reader for contactless and chip: A portable card reader supporting tap and chip payments.

Used for

  • Taking payments in person and online
  • Running payroll and scheduling shifts
  • Setting up marketing campaigns and loyalty programs
  • Accessing funds and managing cash flow
  • Connecting third-party apps to manage the business

From Square's own website, read 2026-10-24. How we build listings.

How to evaluate Payments & Fintech

This is how the CIOPages Research Team evaluates this category. It is not an assessment of Square. It comes from our Enterprise Payments & FinTech Infrastructure buyer guide.

25%
Authorization Rate & Acceptance Optimization
Measured auth rates on your own traffic, network tokenization and account-updater coverage, intelligent retries, 3DS / SCA exemption handling, debit and local-scheme routing, and issuer-data optimization
20%
Global Coverage & Local Payment Methods
Local acquiring footprint by country, supported currencies and settlement, breadth of alternative and local methods (wallets, A2A, BNPL, real-time rails), and cross-border versus domestic processing
20%
Orchestration & Routing Flexibility
Multi-acquirer / multi-PSP routing, least-cost and geo-local rules, automatic failover, PSP-agnostic vaulting and token portability, and how hard it is to add or swap a downstream provider
15%
Risk, Fraud & Compliance
Native fraud / chargeback tooling and liability shift, PCI DSS scope reduction (hosted fields, vault), KYC / KYB onboarding, and regional regulatory coverage (SCA/PSD2, data residency)
10%
Developer Experience & Embedded / Platform Payments
API quality, SDKs and hosted components, sandbox and docs, marketplace split payouts and sub-merchant onboarding, issuing / Treasury-style money movement, and time-to-first-transaction
10%
Pricing Transparency & Settlement
Interchange-plus versus blended, fee clarity by method and geography, settlement speed and reserve terms, FX margins, and contractual flexibility to renegotiate as volume grows

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Quick Facts

squareup.com Pricing page
CategoryEnterprise Applications
SubcategoryPayments & Fintech

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