Square How-Tos 6 min read
How to Accept Pre-Orders and Catering on Square
Holiday boxes, next-day pickups, and catering trays all need scheduled ordering. Here's how to set up pre-orders and order scheduling on Square Online, step by step.
The Tany blog
Mobile ordering, loyalty & growth
Practical guides for independent cafés and restaurants running on Square — from the team building branded ordering apps that go live in 24 hours.
Square How-Tos 25 Guides 19 Loyalty & Retention 14 Apps & Technology 8 Delivery & Direct Ordering 8 Marketing 7 Operations 7 Local SEO 6 Mobile Apps 3 Square How-To 3 Payments & Fees 3 Payments 3 Marketing & Growth 2 Customer Retention 2 Gift Cards 1 Payments & Tipping 1 Comparisons 1 Marketing & Retention 1 POS Comparisons 1 Growth & Marketing 1 Mobile Ordering 1
Loyalty & Retention 8 min read
How Much Does a Coffee Shop Loyalty Program Cost?
Punch cards, Square Loyalty, standalone loyalty apps, or loyalty bundled into a branded app — here's what each actually costs and when it pays for itself.
Growth & Marketing 7 min read
How to Increase Average Order Value at Your Café
AOV is the cheapest growth lever you have. Here are the menu, upsell, and mobile-ordering tactics that lift it without adding a single new customer.
Loyalty & Retention 7 min read
Email vs SMS vs Push: How Cafés Should Reach Customers
Email is cheap, SMS gets read, push is free once you have an app. Here's how the three customer-messaging channels actually compare for a café — and how to use them together.
Square How-Tos 7 min read
How to Switch From Clover to Square Without Losing Data
Moving a café off Clover and onto Square, the honest way: what carries over via CSV, what you have to rebuild by hand, and how to cut over without a bad morning.
Square How-Tos 7 min read
Tap to Pay on iPhone for Cafés: Setup, Fees & Limits
Turn your iPhone into a card reader with Square — what it costs, which iPhones work, the contactless tap limit, and where a phone-only setup hits a wall.
Square How-Tos 7 min read
Clover vs Square for a Café: Which POS Is Better?
An operator-grade comparison of Clover and Square for a small café — what each really costs once you add hardware, software, and processing.
Loyalty & Retention 6 min read
Customer Lifetime Value for Coffee Shops, Explained
A plain-language guide to customer lifetime value for cafés — the simple formula, a worked example, and what it changes about how you spend on marketing.
Delivery & Direct Ordering 6 min read
SkipTheDishes Fees for Restaurants in Canada (2026)
A clear, Canada-specific breakdown of what SkipTheDishes actually costs a restaurant — commission, processing, and marketing fees — plus how to keep more of each order.
Square How-Tos 7 min read
How to Set Up a Coffee Subscription or Membership on Square
Recurring revenue for a café, explained: how to price and launch a coffee subscription or membership on Square without the math working against you.