Square for Retail

Square for Retail is Square's point of sale configured specifically for retail businesses, where the central problem is not taking payment but knowing what is on the shelves. Square puts it as spending less time tracking stock and more time selling, and the product's distinguishing work is inventory management rather than the checkout itself.

Stock updates in real time across every location and sales channel, so a business does not oversell an item or discover a shortage after the fact. Every sale, restock and adjustment appears in one place, which makes trends visible early enough to act on rather than only explaining a stockout afterwards. Inventory can be organised, updated and received across multiple items at once, which matters for any shop receiving deliveries in bulk.

Supplier workflow is handled inside the product. Purchase orders and vendor profiles can be created so ordering, tracking and receiving inventory happen in the same system that records the sales, rather than in a spreadsheet alongside it. Barcode labels can be created and printed using supported label printers, dimensions and templates.

A particularly practical touch is the stocktake tool, which uses an iPhone or iPad camera to update, review and confirm inventory counts, turning a device the shop already owns into the counting hardware. Pricing starts at $0, with Square describing value-packed plans, no hidden fees and no locked-in contracts, cancellable or switchable at any time. Businesses processing over $250,000 per year are directed to Square Pro for custom pricing.