A Square for Restaurants alternative built to run offline
Square for Restaurants is a well-known cloud-based POS from a company built around card payments. If your priorities are a kitchen that keeps running with no internet, recipe-level stock and Uber Eats orders without a tablet, here is how SureTill differs.
How is SureTill different from Square for Restaurants?
The main difference is architecture. Square for Restaurants is cloud-based and part of Square's card payments ecosystem. SureTill is offline-first, with a full backend on a server inside your restaurant. Check Square's site for its current features and pricing.
Square for Restaurants: cloud-based. SureTill: a backend and local database on a server inside your restaurant, syncing to an optional cloud mirror.
Square: part of Square's card payments ecosystem. SureTill: ask us about your payment terminal.
Square: check current pricing on Square's site. SureTill: one-time setup and training fee plus a flat monthly fee, no cut of sales. See pricing.
Square: check Square's current integrations list. SureTill: integrates with Uber Eats directly; ask us which other delivery apps we can connect.
Square: cloud. SureTill: self-hosted or cloud mirror, on Windows, Linux or Android terminals.
When Square may suit you better: if you want POS and card processing from the same provider under one account, Square's ecosystem is built around exactly that. If an outage on a busy night is your bigger worry, read on.
What happens when the internet drops?
With SureTill, nothing at the counter or in the kitchen stops. Billing, kitchen tickets, the kitchen display and stock deduction run on the terminal itself, then sync when the connection returns. Square documents its own offline behaviour, so check its current help pages for your setup.
Orders and bills are handled locally, not by a cloud server.
KOT routing per station and the KDS keep working over your local network.
Recipe-based deduction happens at kitchen-send, online or not, and syncs later.
The full explanation is in offline POS vs cloud POS.
What do you get with SureTill?
A restaurant system built by a restaurant owner, in production at over 1,000 orders per branch per day at Flavourz in Lahore.
Floor plans, dine-in, takeaway and delivery, with KOT routing per station and a kitchen display.
Unit conversion, wastage, batches and expiry, and low-stock alerts. See inventory.
Delivery zones and rider settlements for your own drivers.
Loyalty, gift cards, prepaid, QR table ordering and an online storefront.
Multi-branch dashboard, roles and permissions, and audit logs.
English, Arabic and Urdu; ESC/POS printers over USB, LAN or Bluetooth. More on the features page.
Can SureTill take Uber Eats orders without a tablet?
Yes. SureTill integrates with Uber Eats through the official API, so orders arrive in the POS and print to the kitchen.
- Accept, reject and mark ready from SureTill
- Uber Eats menu and prices managed from SureTill
- No separate Uber Eats tablet needed
New Uber Eats orders arrive over the internet, so they need a connection. On DoorDash too? Ask us which delivery apps we can connect.
Uber Eats is a trademark of Uber Technologies, Inc. SureTill is an independent integration and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Uber.
Square for Restaurants vs SureTill: questions
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Which is better, Square for Restaurants or SureTill?
It depends on what you value. Square for Restaurants is a cloud-based POS tied into Square's card payments ecosystem, which suits venues that want POS and payments from one provider. SureTill suits venues that want billing, kitchen tickets and stock to keep running with no internet, plus Uber Eats orders without a tablet.
Does SureTill work offline like Square's offline mode?
SureTill is offline-first: it runs on a server inside your restaurant, so billing, kitchen tickets, the kitchen display and stock deduction keep working and sync later. For what Square supports offline, check Square's current help pages.
Can I use my existing payment terminal with SureTill?
Ask us about your payment terminal. Tell us which one you use and we will give you a straight answer before you switch.
Does SureTill integrate with Uber Eats?
Yes. SureTill integrates with Uber Eats through the official API. Orders land in SureTill and print to the kitchen, and you accept, reject and mark them ready from the POS.
How is SureTill priced compared with Square?
SureTill charges a one-time setup and training fee plus a flat monthly fee, with no cut of your sales; call for a quote. Square publishes its own plans and processing rates, so check current pricing on Square's site.
Compare them on your own menu.
Book a free 30-minute demo. We will unplug the internet and run a dinner service on SureTill so you can judge it side by side with what you use now.