Square How-Tos 6 min read
Is a Square Kitchen Display System Worth It for a Café?
What a Square Kitchen Display System costs, what it requires, and the honest test for whether your café actually needs one yet.
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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.
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Delivery & Direct Ordering 6 min read
How to Recover Abandoned Online Orders at Your Café
Roughly two-thirds of food carts are abandoned. A practical playbook for recovering those lost café orders with Square Marketing, faster checkout, and push.
Payments & Fees 6 min read
How to Reduce Chargebacks on Square Online Orders
A plain-English guide to Square payment disputes for cafés: how the process works, what a lost chargeback actually costs, and how to prevent them.
Guides 7 min read
How to Set Up Curbside Pickup on Square for Your Café
Curbside pickup is a free Square Online fulfillment option. Here's how to set it up, staff it, and keep the hand-off fast at a busy café.
Square How-To 8 min read
How to Handle Refunds on Square Online Orders
Refunds are unavoidable in pickup and delivery. Here's how to process them cleanly on Square, what they actually cost you, and when store credit beats a refund.
Square How-To 8 min read
How to Reduce Square Processing Fees for Your Cafe
You can't negotiate Square's headline rate at low volume, but you can change how you take payment — and that's where the real savings hide.
Loyalty & Retention 7 min read
How to Set Your Cafe's Loyalty Earn Rate & Rewards
The math behind 'buy 9, get the 10th free' — how to pick an earn rate and reward that drives repeat visits without quietly eating your margin.
Local SEO 6 min read
Is Yelp Worth It for Your Café or Coffee Shop?
An honest cost-benefit look at Yelp for independent cafés, what the free page is worth, and the cheaper channels that usually beat paid Yelp ads.
Loyalty & Retention 7 min read
Punch Card vs Points: Which Café Loyalty Program Wins?
An honest comparison of the two loyalty models for cafés, the research behind each, and how to run whichever you choose on Square.
Square How-Tos 7 min read
How to Let Customers Schedule Pickup Orders on Square
A practical, operator-grade walkthrough for letting guests book a pickup time on Square, plus the limits that keep your kitchen from drowning.