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Is Your Café's Online Ordering Accessible? ADA & WCAG
A plain-English read on which accessibility rules actually apply to an independent café, and the handful of fixes that cover most real failures.
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Guides 8 min read
Does My Coffee Shop Need a Mobile App? An Honest Answer
Not every café needs an app. Here's the honest test — regulars, rush, and repeat volume — plus realistic adoption numbers before you spend a dollar.
Guides 8 min read
How to Launch a Seasonal or Limited-Time Drink on Square
The full playbook for a limited-time drink on Square: schedule it, price it, and use scarcity, push, and loyalty to drive the traffic spike.
Guides 6 min read
How to Sell Coffee Beans & Merch Online With Square
Your bags of beans and branded mugs can sell while you sleep. Here's how to add shippable retail to a Square café without a second system.
Guides 7 min read
Menu Photos & Descriptions That Sell More Online Orders
Practical, honest guidance on the menu photos and descriptions that lift online-order conversion and basket size — and how to shoot them on a phone.
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.
Guides 7 min read
How to Price Your Café Menu for Online Ordering
A practical method for pricing your online menu: target food-cost percentages, when to mark up for delivery, and the rounding tricks that protect margin.
Guides 8 min read
Square Online Menu Modifiers & Allergens: A Café Setup Guide
How to build clean modifier sets and surface allergen info in Square so online orders are accurate, profitable, and safe — without confusing your kitchen.
Guides 7 min read
How to Run Café Promotions Without Losing Your Margin
Most café promotions feel successful and lose money. The break-even formula and a few rules separate a real win from a busy, unprofitable day.
Guides 6 min read
How Long Does It Take to Launch a Restaurant App?
A realistic, no-hype timeline for getting a branded café app live—and why most of the wait is app store review, not coding.
Guides 7 min read
How to Set Up Square Online Ordering for Pickup (Step by Step)
A no-fluff walkthrough of standing up commission-free pickup ordering on the Square Online site you probably already have.
Guides 7 min read
Square Kiosk vs Mobile Order-Ahead for Your Café
Square Kiosk and mobile order-ahead solve different problems. Here's what each costs, what each is good at, and why most cafés end up wanting both.
Guides 6 min read
Multi-Location Mobile Ordering on Square: A Setup Guide
A practical playbook for offering order-ahead across multiple café locations on Square — location-aware menus, pickup routing, reporting, and per-site cost.
Guides 6 min read
How to Reduce No-Shows on Café Pickup Orders
A practical guide to cutting no-shows and uncollected pickup orders at your café — prepayment, smart prep timing, ready-notifications, and how to handle the ones that still slip through.
Guides 7 min read
How to Calculate the ROI of a Branded Restaurant App
Stop guessing. Here's the exact math to decide whether a $99/month branded app earns its keep at your café — break-even, payback, and the levers that move it.
Guides 7 min read
How to Get Customers to Download Your Restaurant App
Building the app is the easy part. Here's the operator-grade playbook for actually getting your regulars to download it and order ahead.
Guides 7 min read
QR Code Ordering for Cafés: How It Works and What It Costs
QR ordering lets guests scan, order, and pay from their own phone. Here's how to set it up on Square, what it costs, and its honest limits.
Guides 8 min read
Apple Pay & Google Pay for Café Ordering on Square
A practical guide to turning on Apple Pay and Google Pay for café ordering on Square — what you get out of the box, what to configure, and what it costs.
Guides 7 min read
How to Sell eGift Cards for Your Café on Square
What it actually costs to sell Square eGift cards, how to set them up, and how to use them as a low-cost engine for prepaid revenue and repeat visits.