Get up to $2,000 off Upserve POS hardware through September 30, 2026
Upserve vs Square

Your restaurant has changed. Compare what comes next.

Considering a switch from Square? Compare how Upserve brings guest context, menu and server performance into the daily decisions of your full-service restaurant.

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Restaurants and bars get up to $2,000 off Upserve POS hardware through September 30, 2026

See Upserve for your restaurant.

Tell us a little about your business. Then choose a time to explore the workflows and switching questions that matter to you.

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Upserve vs Square: compare how the experience differs.

Both platforms cover the fundamentals. Upserve is built around full-service restaurants to help you understand your guests, menu and team performance, with human support from setup through daily service.

What matters
Square
Guest insights

Guest Book builds history around guest visits, their spend, preferences, and more. Shift Prep brings that context into your pre-shift meetings.

Square

Customer Directory includes profiles, history, and segmentation

Menu decisions

Menu Insights connects item performance with repeat-guest behavior to show which dishes drive loyalty.

Square

Item, category, and modifier reporting shows sales performance and trends over time.

Server performance

Compare server performance over time to identify top performers, spot trends, and inform your coaching. See turn times, selling strengths, ticket averages.

Square

Team reporting shows employee sales and associated labor costs.

Support

Personalized onboarding, professional installation, and 24/7/365 support by phone, chat, or email.

Square

Self-guided set up or full-service support. Live-support access varies by subscription.

Less time on the busywork.
More room for your business to grow.

$1,500+
Potential monthly savings in third-party ordering fees
Kenji’s Ramen
+15%
Increase in sales
Malted Barley
10 min
Saved per online order
Kenji’s Ramen
Guests dining at The Malted Barley
MORE TIME FOR WHAT MATTERS
“With Upserve I don’t even have to step out from behind the bar; It really saves so much time, you know, when time is so important to us.”
Ron, Owner
Malted Barley  ·  Providence, RI

Give your next service more context.

Upserve Guest Book showing a returning guest visit history

Know the guest behind the check.

Bring visit history and preferences into the way your team prepares.

Upserve Menu Insights highlighting dishes tied to repeat visits

Look past the top sellers.

Explore which dishes show up in repeat-guest patterns before making the next menu decision.

Restaurant team reviewing service notes before a shift

Rehearse the details.

Put your tricky splits, modifiers, and service routines through an Upserve walkthrough.

Move from Square when the fit is worth it.

If Square covers your service and budget, it may still be a good fit. If you want a fresh look at the tools behind your dining room, start with a demo.

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Map what matters.

Bring your current POS, devices, integrations, and the service details you need to keep.

2

Put Upserve to the test.

Walk through the workflows that matter to your team. Review the proposed setup and costs.

3

Plan the move.

Confirm configuration, training, installation, and what data can transfer before setting a go-live date.

Personalized onboarding

A specialist rebuilds your menu, modifiers, and floor plan with you, so day one feels familiar, not foreign.

Professional installation

Terminals, handhelds, printers, kitchen screens, networking. Our team configures all of it. You run service, we run cables.

Training Mode

Give your team hands-on practice with your actual menu and POS workflows, without affecting live service or reporting.

24/7/365 restaurant support

Chat, phone, or email, any hour. Real people who have worked a rush and know what we are slammed means.

Plans and pricing

One quote, built around your restaurant.

Three plans, priced per location, from a single room to a growing group. Your quote depends on your locations, your hardware, and how you run service.

Core

Best for owners running one or two locations

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Includes

Cloud POS on iPad
Tableside handhelds
Offline Mode, up to 24 hours
Menu, modifier and floor plan configuration
24/7/365 support
Pro (Most Popular)

The full stack for operators who want the guest and inventory side too.

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Everything in Core, plus

Guest Insights and Guest Book
Inventory
Online Ordering
Loyalty
Multi-location dashboard
Menu Intelligence and server scorecards
Pro+

For larger groups, central kitchens, and tech-forward operators.

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Everything in Pro, plus

Multi-unit and central kitchen tooling
Custom reporting
Dedicated account team

Payments on every plan, hardware quoted separately. You will see your full quote on the call, itemized. Ask about setup support on your call.

Have your Square quote or statement handy. Compare the same devices, required tools, and payment assumptions.

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IN GOOD COMPANY

Built for service. Loved by restaurants.

Real stories from the people behind the bar, in the kitchen, and running the show.

CUSTOMER STORY  /  01
“Things have improved exponentially, especially the customer service experience. I’m very thankful for the direct access to help.”
Yvette, Owner
Vinateria · Harlem, NYC
Customer since April 2013
CUSTOMER STORY  /  02
“It’s gone well despite setting it up overnight. We’re grateful it was an easy transition. It’s nice that online orders automatically come to the Upserve POS.”
Jennifer, Co-owner
1910 Public House · Lilburn, GA
Customer since 2016
CUSTOMER STORY  /  03
“System reliability, ease of use, easy to teach and learn, GREAT support team”
Greg, General Manager
Gross Confection Bar · Portland, ME
Customer since October 2018
CUSTOMER STORY  /  04
“It’s very intuitive and user-friendly, which is essential for a good POS. It’s also there working for us fast and furious when we need it to, firing orders all over the kitchen.”
Peter, Owner
The Sandwich Hut · Providence, RI
Customer since 2016
CUSTOMER STORY  /  05
“Great POS. Provides us with every bit of info we need.”
Gayle
First Draft Book Bar · Phoenix, AZ
CUSTOMER STORY  /  06
“Easy to use system and great support.”
Natasha Poor, Owner
27 Club · Hendersonville, NC
CUSTOMER STORY  /  07
“Good processing rates and great support.”
Bailey Smith, Managing Partner
The R Bar · New Orleans, LA
Customer since 2014
CUSTOMER STORY  /  08
“With Upserve online ordering, we save 10 minutes for every order we don’t take by phone. With ten orders per day, that’s a lot of time. In one month, we can save over $1500 in third-party online ordering fees. It really adds up.”
Kenn
Kenji’s Ramen
CUSTOMER STORY  /  09
“We were able to identify a sales loss of $1,980 per year by using Upserve to track menu items that drove return business.”
Chef Andy
The Smoke Shop
CUSTOMER STORY  /  10
“Upserve Inventory was the main component to help scale our business from two to 38 locations in two years.”
Desi Saran
Playa Bowls

Questions before switching

Why would I choose Upserve over Square?

Upserve's focus and platform is built around the needs of full-service restaurants. This means providing insights on what turns guests into regulars, which dishes drive repeat visits, and where your team is doing well or has room to improve. We back you up with personalized onboarding and 24/7/365 support.

How does Upserve support compare with Square?

Upserve includes personalized onboarding, professional installation, and 24/7/365 access to people who have worked restaurant service. With Square, live-support access varies by subscription, so it is worth checking what your current plan covers. We can walk through what support looks like day to day on the call.

What happens to the Square tools and integrations we use today?

Bring the list of Square tools and integrations your team relies on. We will map each one to how it works in Upserve, what changes, and what data can transfer. Where there is no direct equivalent, we will say so plainly before you commit to anything.

How do Upserve and Square pricing compare?

It depends on your locations, your hardware, and how you run service, so we will not put a number on it before we have seen your setup. Bring your current Square statement to the call and we will itemize the Upserve quote against it, line by line.

Before you switch from Square, see Upserve at work.

Test the details that matter to your restaurant. Leave the conversation with a clearer view of the fit.

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