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Software profile Point of sale

Square POS

Block, Inc. US

Square POS is a free till app from Block that earns its money on card fees, and the restaurant edition is the strongest free hospitality software on the European market. It is also not sold in Luxembourg, Belgium or the Netherlands, which settles the question for most readers of this site.

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Free plan
Free plan
Yes
Trial
30 days
Visit the vendor site Opens the vendor site in a new tab Editorial score 7.8 /10
Square POS website, captured on 2026-11-11
Screenshot of Square POS, captured 2026-11-11. Source: https://squareup.com/

Best for

Cafes and restaurants in France, Ireland or Spain that want real restaurant software at zero monthly cost

Strengths / Weaknesses

Strengths

  • Square for Restaurants has a genuinely free tier with floor plan, split bills and tips
  • Keeps taking card payments during an outage, with up to 72 hours to upload the queued transactions
  • Named integrations with Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat
  • Hardware is cheap and predictable: reader 19 EUR, Terminal 165 EUR, Register 699 EUR, all net
  • In-person EEA cards at 1.65 percent with no fixed fee per transaction

Weaknesses

  • Not available in Luxembourg, Belgium or the Netherlands, per Square's own availability article
  • No German and no Dutch in the staff interface, only English, French, Spanish, Catalan and Japanese
  • No Luxembourg VAT declaration and no FAIA audit file, the accountant exports by hand
  • Card processing is tied to Square, you cannot keep a local acquirer
  • Restaurants Plus is billed per location, so a second site doubles the subscription

Pricing

Plan Price Unit Note
Square Point of Sale app Price on request per location card fees apply, no monthly fee
Square for Restaurants Free Price on request per location pay card processing only
Square for Restaurants Plus Price on request per location, net kitchen display included, 30 day trial
Square Invoices Plus Price on request per account, net invoicing add on

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Verdict

Square is the benchmark for what a free POS can be, and nobody in this field beats its offline card handling or its hardware pricing. The catch for our readers is geography: Square lists eight countries and the Benelux is in none of them, so a Luxembourg merchant cannot buy it, and a cross-border group cannot standardise on it. If you run a French restaurant, start here. If you ring up sales in the Grand Duchy, this is a page about a system you cannot have.

Other Point of sale software

Lightspeed Restaurant Lightspeed Restaurant A restaurant with a real dining room, handheld ordering and a kitchen that needs screens, in Belgium, the Netherlands or Luxembourg €89 8.3 LUXPOS LUXPOS Luxembourg shops, cafes and restaurants that want the till, the VAT split and the audit file in one account €59 8 unTill Restaurants inside hotels, and independents in the Benelux who want an installer they can phone in their own language €21.85 7.7 L'Addition Restaurants, campsites and food trucks on a weak connection that want the service to continue whatever the line does Price on request 7.6 Shopify POS Shopify POS Retailers who already sell online with Shopify and want one stock pool across the web shop and the counter €32 7.6 Zelty Delivery heavy restaurants and small chains in France drowning in one tablet per platform Price on request 7.4

Where we write about it

Where these numbers come from

  1. [1] Square tarifs (France) accessed 2026-11-11
  2. [2] Square nos frais accessed 2026-11-11
  3. [3] Square pour Restaurants accessed 2026-11-11
  4. [4] Square international availability accessed 2026-11-11
  5. [5] Square offline mode for card payments accessed 2026-11-11
  6. [6] Languages supported by Square accessed 2026-11-11

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