Square Point of Sale (POS) alternatives

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1. [R4] Square Point of Sale (POS) 1/5 · US Dont waste time: Everything about the app and the payment process is fine i use it alot for my business but the big, main and only concern with this app and why i would not recommend it is because they play with your money! Every transaction I’ve had since opening the account gets flagged by there system and then i cant access the money earned from my sale until 2-3 business days later which is di
2. [R6] Square Point of Sale (POS) 3/5 · US Payment: This stupid app never transfer the money when it’s exposed to and then it won’t verify oh you got the bank account number in there. Why do you need to verify then you take 2.6% +10% on tap so if order is $250 they taking $7.33 for using a service. This is highway robbery. You just like Uber. You just like Lyft you like DoorDash.
3. [R13] Square Point of Sale (POS) 2/5 · US Handyman/Contractor: I have been using this app for a few months now. Every time I do a point of sell, they “randomly” flag my account for review. If it’s on a Saturday, it won’t clear until Monday. I recently processed a payment for $2500 during business hours and it cleared. I finished the job at 8pm and the same client sent me $400 and it was flagged for review which I’m told takes 24 to 48 hou
4. [R38] Square Point of Sale (POS) 1/5 · US Money holding company: I downloaded this app & starting using for my business when I started taking money from my clients almost $10,000 after months I got email they can’t approve my account for some reason and I asked them how I’m gonna get my clients money into my bank account they told me to verify the all bank details which I did it then I received email after 3 months your money will automat
5. [R2] Square Point of Sale (POS) 5/5 · US Checkout: I love using square but… I don’t like the new updated checkout where it pops up the prices. Like… if I press the button (tap, insert or swipe) the top shows the cash price and the little itty bitty number below shows the card price, like that needs to be swapped. It needs to be clear not just for the workers but also the customers. Mistakes are made when people squint their eyes like it’
6. [R3] Square Point of Sale (POS) 3/5 · US Invoice creation/ switching apps deleted everything: Just know that if you’re creating an invoice in square on iPhone and you switch apps to copy something on a brand new pro max phone, it will delete everything you wrote for the name of the invoice and details of the invoice. You must save if you switch out. It’s a thing I’m sure that could be fixed easily.
7. [R9] Square Point of Sale (POS) 3/5 · US Last Update Made “Notes” Field Difficult: I was satisfied with the Square app up until now but the last update changed that. I can no longer view the top line of the Notes field while I’m editing it. Please fix!
8. [R12] Square Point of Sale (POS) 3/5 · US Whyyyy: The new update is buggy and makes it so much harder to use for reports. I can’t select date ranges now and it won’t show me daily report sales.
9. [R1] Square Point of Sale (POS) 2/5 · US Not happy with this app: I have an account that I’m completely blocked out of. I changed my cell number and now it wants to send me a text to confirm my account. They give no other options such as email. They have no way of contacting the support team. It’s very frustrating. Please fix this issue. Please respond to this with a way for me to contact you.
10. [R7] Square Point of Sale (POS) 1/5 · US My square card wasn’t delivered: Square doesn’t provide the proof of delivery. So they will not deliver your card and there’s nothing you can do.
11. [R10] Square Point of Sale (POS) 1/5 · US Doesn’t verify my identity: This app doesn’t want to verify my identity after entering my correct and legal credentials and proceeds to not let me access tap payments. and don’t even want to bother with customer support.
12. [R16] Square Point of Sale (POS) 1/5 · US They deactivated my account one night before payroll: After years with 0 problems or chargebacks and thousands of clients they deactivated my account for “security concerns” and said too bad, nothing we can do about it. No manual review or ability to restore it. Update: I already spoke to your customer service there and they said the decision is final and they will not reactivate my account.
13. [R30] Square Point of Sale (POS) 3/5 · GB Good app… HIGH fees: Whilst app manufacture and ongoing support requires money to make it happen it’s frustrating that more users producing more profits don’t enable fee reduction for use ! A FAIR balance of low fees against increase of usage by more customers would attract even more users to utilise this app.
14. [R49] Square Point of Sale (POS) 4/5 · US Juan: I like the service that square provides for my company, is really easy and reliable, they charge a little bit much but it’s worth it for the service
15. [R31] Square Point of Sale (POS) 1/5 · US Do not use: Terrible app use to receive payments and they refund anyone with your authorization
16. [R44] Square Point of Sale (POS) 2/5 · US The software and service is great but: 10/10 times they will give a customer back all of their money even if you have evidence that the customers claim is invalid. I switched to Stripe now I can breathe easy knowing my money is safe
17. [R52] Clover Go 5/5 · US Provider: Good app
18. [R53] Clover Go 3/5 · US Good but not great: After the recent updates, multiple reports like Discounts and Removed Items are not working on the app. Clover also has pretty constant outages that affect our business by causing orders to get lost or deleted when their servers are down.
19. [R54] Clover Go 1/5 · US MANUAL CARD ENTRY: typing in the card works fine until you get to the CVV. This opens the entire keyboard and when you press anything it picks a random number to add. Ridiculous bug, please fix asap! I will update my review
20. [R55] Clover Go 5/5 · US Wokame: Best
21. [R65] GoDaddy Commerce 1/5 · US Horrible: Horrible experience with this team They promised same day and then next day deposits and then refunded the money Stay away
22. [R66] GoDaddy Commerce 4/5 · US Loved the app until last update: So I was able to open app, and one click to scheduled appointments I had. Now I have have to open app, hit more, select website, then select manage appointments to view my appointments for the day or make changes. It was convenient now it’s a hassle. Why did yall change the one click access to appointments??
23. [R67] GoDaddy Commerce 3/5 · US Update sucks: I hate that I can’t update my products on the app anymore.
24. [R70] GoDaddy Commerce 3/5 · US Need Appointment App: Needs a dedicated appointment app that we can share with our staff. The newest update makes checking appointments more complicated with extra steps, and it takes you out of the app to the internet. We primarily use the GoDaddy mobile app to check and book customer appointments. It needs a way to share the calendar with all staff without giving them full access to editing the
25. [R79] Square 1/5 · US Features: They constantly move or remove necessary features
26. [R80] Square 5/5 · US THE BEST APP EVER!: This app is so amazing for my small business! It keeps track of all my inventory, product stock, and prices! It makes it so easy for check out, you can do Apple Pay, or card payments on your phone! It only takes a small fee from your card payment but is SO worth it! 100% worth it!!!!
27. [R81] Square 3/5 · US Updates ALWAYS Cause Problems: Software is ok for operating small business, but EVERY time they release an update, something starts not working properly like it was before the update. The app will miscommunicate with my printer, or the purchase order process will stop saving the way it used too. Tired of having to fix it every time.
28. [R82] Square 1/5 · US Label printing not working / zero cust service: Our label printing does not work and customer service does zero about this after several calls and emails
29. [R93] Shopify Point of Sale (POS) 1/5 · US Forgotten pin… locked out forever: Will not let you log in to change pin number if you forget. So the app is useless to me. Deleting until their AI can figure it out I guess…
30. [R94] Shopify Point of Sale (POS) 4/5 · US Great app!: Great overall experience! Easy and fast to use. The only problem is the receipt is hard to send via email or text to the customer, it is complicated to get the email/number correct. I have not yet used the new version and I hope that that small problem is solved. I totally recommend this app to all small businesses with Shopify! It is a very wonderful experience.
31. [R95] Shopify Point of Sale (POS) 3/5 · US Stop changing the interface design.: It keeps changing and only gets worse.
32. [R96] Shopify Point of Sale (POS) 1/5 · US Brutal: If you’re logged in, you can never log out.
33. [R107] QuickBooks GoPayment POS 1/5 · US Money Didn’t Transfer: I cannot find a number to call a real person to solve my issue. A credit card purchase was made two days ago and still the money has not reached my bank account. It shows the card was charged but bank account has still not received the money. What a frustrating app already. Will find a much better, trustworthy and reliable app to use.
34. [R108] QuickBooks GoPayment POS 5/5 · US Okay: Let’s see if it can keep up the good business
35. [R109] QuickBooks GoPayment POS 3/5 · US Needs to be able to do split tender.: Have customers who pay cash and debit/credit cards in one transaction
36. [R110] QuickBooks GoPayment POS 1/5 · US Horrible customer service - TAP TO PAY DOESN’T WORK!: I’ve spent close to 4 hours on the phone with QuickBooks customer support talking to multiple different people and have multiple “tickets”opened to try to resolve this issue. Zero answers and it seems like everyone I talk to has never even looked at this app before. Completely useless. As a business owner, my time is valuable and having t
37. [R63] Clover Go 1/5 · US Removed items: There’s problem with the removal items
38. [R77] GoDaddy Commerce 1/5 · US The worst 🛑: 🛑Do not download this app I do not recommend it. They take around seven business days to do payouts and sometimes even more not only that if you do more than two transactions with the same customer, they will lock your account and the all your money will be get refunded so you may lose all your stuff that you sell. Do not use this company. not only that customer service is the worst a
39. [R100] Shopify Point of Sale (POS) 1/5 · US HORRIBLE UPDATE: Please fix this, the newest update is ruining our in store sales. Every time someone checks out the buttons for cash go away and we had to force close and try and click it fast before the buttons disappear and then we have to force close the app between every purchase because the screen won’t clear and freezes and then doesn’t even give us an option to print a receipt. The new upd
40. [R101] Shopify Point of Sale (POS) 4/5 · US Tap and Pay not working: The Tap and Pay refused to work on my iPhone 15 ProMax on a craft show day. I hadn’t used it since December. As I have had a similar problem in the past, I assumed it was an update. When I went to test it a few days later to troubleshoot it, it was suddenly working fine. Hopefully whatever the problem was, it was resolved.
41. [R102] Shopify Point of Sale (POS) 1/5 · US Awful update: What is going on with the POS Shopify app? This update is hiding checkout options when we need customers to pay. Freezing when an order is able to finish so we have to force close the app all day between purchases. Where in the world or how do you do an exchange??? The button says return or exchange but only gives return option. This app has become horrendous lately for our business
42. [R103] Shopify Point of Sale (POS) 1/5 · US Recent update causing problems: For the second time this year (2026), a poorly optimized update was allowed to go live. Crippling the checkout process; slow non responsive interface, constant app crashes, failed checkouts & exchanges. If you are debating whether or not to use Shopify, avoid at all costs. They are pushing half baked AI imagined software updates onto us, and it will not end anytime
43. [R114] QuickBooks GoPayment POS 4/5 · US Need this now: APP does what it should BUT it needs to be able to do split tenders. Sometimes customers pay partial cash and rest on credit card. Also need to make the app for IPad users that can work with epson tm-m300 styles receipt printers!