Coffee Shops and Cafes
The perfect coffee shop point of sale.
Over £200,000 in annual sales?
Everything you need to grow and run your coffee shop with Square.
Get up and running in minutes. The Square POS app is easy for your café to use and lets you take payments right out of the box without any commitments or training.
Sell online and in person with one system.
Keep track of online and in-person coffee shop orders in the same POS system. Sell directly from your website or connect with delivery partners
✔️ Accept contactless, mobile and chip and PIN payments
✔️ Manage inventory in real time
✔️ Print or email sales reports
✔️ Record every transaction, even offline
Keep customers coming back the smart way.
Engage with your customers through email or custom loyalty programmes to reward them without taking up too much of your time. They’re simple to set up and can send out reminders and offers automatically.
✔️ Set up a customisable loyalty programme
✔️ Create, send and track email marketing campaigns
✔️ Track all your customer data in one place with Square Customer Directory
Manage your team more efficiently.
Square Team Management lets your employees clock in and out at the POS and see their schedule on the free Square Team App.
✔️ Easily create and publish shift schedules
✔️ Automate your team’s tip pooling process if you take them
✔️ Empower your team with custom permissions
Receipts customers crave.
With Square Point of Sale software and Square Invoices, you can email receipts, send them in a text message or print them out. You can also customise your digital receipts with your business’s logo or a photo.
Feedback with flavour
Square Feedback uses digital receipts to deliver customer comments: hot and cold. Resolve issues quickly and build a better business with your customers’ input.
Build a smooth system with APIs or turnkey third-party integrations.
Square APIs enable businesses to integrate Square into any front-end experience or back-end data system, working seamlessly with any enterprise architecture.
- Integrate with popular API partners
- Connect with popular third-party applications
Accept all the latest, fastest and most secure ways to pay.
No need for a separate payments processor: your Square account lets you accept payments right away.
Secure payments, secure information
Your account includes Square Secure, a suite of security tools. There’s no extra work: you get 24/7 fraud prevention, dispute management, PCI compliance and more.
Gift Cards
Boost sales and bring in new customers by easily selling physical gift cards and eGift cards online. Track gift card sales from your point-of-sale software.
We’re here to help
Tap into a wealth of information from café owners like you in our Seller Community, search our help articles 24/7 or call our team and get back to business quickly.
Reliable, fast payment hardware for your coffee shop.
Accept payments fast, whether you’re selling coffee on the go or in-store.
Take contactless and chip and PIN payments anywhere with a card reader that pairs directly with your mobile device.
Take payments, print receipts and run your business with a powerful, smart and portable card machine.
Get an all-in-one till system with a dedicated customer display and built-in POS software that lets you start selling straight out of the box.
Turn your iPad into a professional point of sale and take every kind of payment.
Your self-service ordering solution that includes hardware, software and payments.
Pricing
Square Point of Sale software is free to use – there are no setup fees or monthly fees. Only pay when you take a payment.
Processing rate
1.75%
Per in-person card or contactless payment
Hardware starting at
£19 + VAT
With Square Reader
Point of Sale Monthly fee
£0
Per month
Ask about a custom rate.
We can create custom pricing packages for some businesses that process
more than £200K in card sales.
“Using a point-of-sale system that’s so revolutionary has opened people’s eyes in the local area. Small businesses should never feel scared of taking card payments. Point-of-sale systems like Square’s make it so accessible and easy.”
Scott James,
Founder, Coaltown Coffee
Ammanford, Wales
Townsquare articles
How to Start a Coffee Shop
How to Create a Coffee Shop Marketing Plan
How to Find the Perfect Coffee Shop Location
Resources to keep you up to date and on top
It’s your business. We just want to help you keep doing it.
How Square works
Square connects all sides of your business with easy-to-use tools designed to give you time to focus on what you do best.
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FAQs
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.
Square POS 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 programmes, marketing, inventory management and third-party integrations, everything you need for your café or bakery is waiting for you.
Square POS software is free to use. Just pay 1.75% per in-person transaction. So you can put that money toward more important things, like better ingredients for your baked goods or café.