How much does Square cost?

Square publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to On request for Plus. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Free and Plus on Square?

Plus costs On request against Free, and adds all free plan features, advanced pos features for food, retail, and appointments, lower processing fees on card transactions, custom loyalty rewards program.

Which e-commerce tools can I use without paying?

7 of the 8 e-commerce tools listed alongside Square have a free tier: UnoPIM, Instacart, Temu, Vinted, Shein.

What am I actually paying for with Square?

The record lists 14 features across 4 areas: other, integrations, security, platform. In practice it is brought in for accept payments with all-in-one pos application, online ordering and basic website creation, invoicing and appointment booking.

Does Square charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Square prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Square against before paying?

The closest e-commerce tools in this directory are BackToMe, UnoPIM, Instacart, Temu. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Square covering price, platforms and features.

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Square pricing

Square publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 30 August 2026, Square pricing is free across 2 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: Free
Model: Freemium
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Square plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Square pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free	Free	6	Entry tier
Plus	On request	7	Priced on request

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Free

The entry tier. It covers accept payments with all-in-one pos app, online site builder (ordering profiles, basic websites, online stores, booking sites), item library and inventory tracking, invoicing capabilities, appointment scheduling and staff calendar management, checking and savings accounts access.

Plus

On request

Over Free, this tier adds:

All Free plan features
Advanced POS features for food, retail, and appointments
Lower processing fees on card transactions
Custom loyalty rewards program
Email marketing with unlimited campaigns
Text messaging (first 500 free, then 0.03 per message)
Staff shift scheduling and attendance tracking

Where Square stops being free

Free, Free

Accept payments with all-in-one POS app
Online site builder (ordering profiles, basic websites, online stores, booking sites)
Item library and inventory tracking
Invoicing capabilities
Appointment scheduling and staff calendar management
Checking and savings accounts access

No paid tier on record

Square lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.

What the product covers

The full Square feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Other

Payment processing
Point of sale
Invoicing
Payroll
Banking

Integrations

QuickBooks
WooCommerce
Wix

Security

PCI DSS
EMV compliant

Platform

Web support
Ios support
Android support
Hardware support

People bring Square in for accept payments with all-in-one pos application, online ordering and basic website creation, invoicing and appointment booking, staff scheduling and loyalty programmes. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Square are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in E-Commerce

Too few e-commerce tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

Square entry price against other E-Commerce tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Square (this page)	Free	freemium	-
BackToMe	€25/month	subscription	-	vs Square
UnoPIM	Free	open-source	-	vs Square
Instacart	Free	Free to download; item markups plus delivery and service fees per order, optional subscription	-	vs Square
Temu	Free	Free to browse and use; pay per order, heavy promotional discounting	-	vs Square
Vinted	Free	Free for sellers, no commission; buyer pays a variable Buyer Protection fee at checkout	-	vs Square
Shein	Free	Free to browse and use; pay per order, optional paid loyalty tier	-	vs Square

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Square badges page.

Before you pay for Square

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Square runs on pos (mobile app), web, and is published by Block Inc of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Square review, and the rest of the category is under best e-commerce tools.

Square pricing on the vendor's own site

Square pricing questions

How much does Square cost?: Square publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to On request for Plus. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Square have a free plan?: Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers accept payments with all-in-one pos app, online site builder (ordering profiles, basic websites, online stores, booking sites), item library and inventory tracking.
What is the difference between Free and Plus on Square?: Plus costs On request against Free, and adds all free plan features, advanced pos features for food, retail, and appointments, lower processing fees on card transactions, custom loyalty rewards program.
Which e-commerce tools can I use without paying?: 7 of the 8 e-commerce tools listed alongside Square have a free tier: UnoPIM, Instacart, Temu, Vinted, Shein.
What am I actually paying for with Square?: The record lists 14 features across 4 areas: other, integrations, security, platform. In practice it is brought in for accept payments with all-in-one pos application, online ordering and basic website creation, invoicing and appointment booking.
Does Square charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Square prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Square against before paying?: The closest e-commerce tools in this directory are BackToMe, UnoPIM, Instacart, Temu. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Square covering price, platforms and features.