Business type solution
Grocery
Square for Grocery brings checkout, fresh-stock control, and customer relationships into one practical system. Cashiers can search, scan, or weigh items, apply discounts and refunds, and prompt for age verification on restricted products.
Built for your day-to-day
Retail inventory tools help you create items from GTINs, receive purchase orders, count stock, watch low-stock levels, and move products between locations. Add Square Online for pickup or delivery, then use customer profiles, loyalty, gift cards, and targeted marketing to turn neighborhood shoppers into regulars. Start with a counter register or a portable scanner-equipped device, and expand the setup as your store, assortment, and number of locations grow.
Key capabilities
Search, scan, or weigh products at checkout, accept major payment types, and use age-verification prompts for alcohol, tobacco, and other restricted items.
Create items from GTIN barcodes, receive vendor purchase orders in bulk, count inventory by camera or scanner, and set low-stock alerts before a fast-moving staple runs out.
Sync stock across locations and online sales, track transfer status, and offer in-store pickup or local delivery without maintaining separate product records.
Use Customer Directory profiles, Loyalty, gift cards, and email or text campaigns to remember repeat shoppers and promote seasonal products or specials.
Retail reporting includes product sales, sell-through, vendor sales, cost of goods sold, and inventory views that can guide purchasing and merchandising decisions.
Explore the details
Square's Grocery page specifically describes rapid checkout for scanned or weighed items, age checks, real-time stock syncing, full and cycle counts, automatic restock alerts, and insights into sales trends, margins, and brands. A grocer can also ring food and grocery items in one transaction and send applicable orders to Square KDS.
Square Free includes core retail checkout, item and SKU creation, discounts, refunds, and sales reporting. Square Plus is listed at $49 per location per month and adds inventory management, stock intake, vendor and purchase-order management, and COGS/inventory reporting. Square Premium is listed at $149 per location per month and adds cross-location returns, transfer orders, and 24/7 phone support. Businesses processing more than $250,000 annually can ask Square about custom pricing, processing fees, hardware discounts, onboarding, and implementation support.
Square Register (2nd generation) provides dual screens and is priced at $899; Square Handheld is $399 and includes a built-in barcode scanner and camera for mobile checkout and inventory work; Square Stand is $149 and requires a compatible iPad; Square Terminal is $299 and includes a receipt printer. Register and Stand support barcode scanners, receipt printers, and cash drawers. Terminal needs its optional $39 Hub for Ethernet or accessories. Confirm exact accessory and iPad compatibility before purchase.
Devices require internet access for normal operation, although supported devices can accept offline payments for up to 24 hours and must reconnect to upload them; the merchant remains responsible for expired, declined, or disputed offline payments. Square's pages describe weighing items but do not establish a universal Square-branded grocery scale or guarantee every third-party scale, so verify the exact scale model and workflow. Square Kiosk Lite has additional accessory and offline-payment restrictions and is presented as an iPad self-service option rather than a general grocery checkout recommendation.
Keep exploring
Hardware
Square Register (2nd generation) puts seller checkout and customer payment on two responsive screens, so a bakery can move a morning line, a specialty grocer can keep a large catalog moving, and a restaurant can send orders through a counter workflow without passing a device back and forth.
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Hardware
Square Handheld puts a complete Square checkout in a staff member’s hand instead of tying every sale to a counter.
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Hardware
Square Stand turns a compatible USB-C iPad into a tidy countertop POS with built-in contactless and chip payments.
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Hardware
Square Terminal gives a bakery counter, coffee bar, food truck, salon desk, or service checkout one compact device for taking tap, chip, and magstripe payments.
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Square’s U.S. accessory catalog includes three dedicated barcode scanners for faster item lookup and checkout: a $169 2D corded model, a $299 2D cordless model, and a $299 2D hands-free model.
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Square’s U.S. printer lineup covers the handoff points that keep a busy operation moving: customer receipts at the counter, heat-tolerant kitchen tickets, liner-free labels for takeout, barcode labels for retail stock, and compact mobile receipts away from the register.
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Square cash drawers give a bakery, café, shop, or service counter a secure place for bills and coins while keeping cash transactions tied to the point of sale.
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Keep checkout, printers, kitchen screens, and staff devices connected with commercial-grade UniFi networking equipment sold through Square in the U.S.
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U.S. Square Retail pricing has a Free tier, Plus at $49 per location per month, Premium at $149 per location per month, and custom Square Pro pricing for businesses processing over $250,000 per year. Hardware prices below are current published prices observed on official U.S. product pages on 2026-10-27.
Per card-present payment; published Free-plan rate. Plus is 2.5% + $0.15 and Premium is 2.4% + $0.15.
Per online or invoice card payment; Plus and Premium are 2.9% + $0.30.
Per manually entered or saved-card payment, across the listed plans.
Per Afterpay transaction; customer pays in four installments while the seller is paid up front.
Free plan; Plus and Premium list a $10 fee cap.
Additional fee for cards issued outside the United States.
Prices and fees are official U.S. published amounts checked on 2026-10-27 and can change; taxes, plan eligibility, and account-specific terms may apply.
Hardware financing is subject to credit approval and published restrictions; official pages state 15% APR, $49-$10,000 purchase amounts, and unavailability in certain states.
Offline payments must reconnect within 24 hours of the first offline payment or transactions may be declined; the merchant bears responsibility for expired, declined, or disputed offline payments.
The Grocery page supports weighing items as a workflow, but no specific universal Square scale model or scale price was verified here. Do not promise scale compatibility without checking the exact model.
Square KDS is mentioned for sending food and grocery orders to a kitchen, but grocery businesses should confirm whether the paid restaurant-oriented KDS workflow fits their operation.
Age-restricted product sales remain subject to applicable U.S. and local law; Square's age prompt is not a substitute for the merchant's compliance obligations.
Questions
Square Free covers core checkout, item/SKU creation, discounts, refunds, and sales reporting. Square Plus is $49 per location per month and is the first listed tier with inventory management, stock intake, vendor and purchase-order tools, and COGS/inventory reporting. Premium is $149 per location per month for cross-location returns, transfer orders, and 24/7 phone support.
Yes. Official Retail documentation says Square can create items from GTIN barcodes, count inventory with a phone or iPad camera, receive purchase orders in bulk, set low-stock alerts, synchronize stock across locations and online channels, and track transfers. Square Handheld adds a built-in barcode scanner for checkout and inventory work.
For a fixed checkout, Square Register provides two screens and costs $899 before tax; Square Stand costs $149 but requires a compatible iPad; Square Terminal costs $299 and includes a receipt printer. Add a supported barcode scanner, printer, cash drawer, and networking equipment as needed. Use Square Handheld at receiving or on the sales floor when mobile scanning and checkout are valuable.
Information as of 2026-10-27. Product details date: 2026-10-27.
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