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Franchises

Keep every franchise location aligned while your brand keeps moving

Franchise growth creates a practical operating challenge: corporate needs visibility and consistency, while local teams need a checkout that is quick to learn and flexible enough for daily service. Square Multi-Account Suite is designed for organizations managing multiple Square accounts, entities, and locations.

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Built for your day-to-day

How it fits your business

Corporate teams can set permissions, maintain menu standards, review organization-wide performance, and support system-wide gift cards while each location runs its own point of sale. Square also offers location-ready hardware, payment processing, staff tools, loyalty, and integrations. Pricing for the multi-account offering is custom, so a franchise should confirm its rollout, account structure, and rate proposal with Square before committing.

Key capabilities

What you can do

  • One control layer for a growing network

    Use centralized controls and permissions across accounts, entities, and locations, giving corporate operators oversight without taking away the local team’s day-to-day POS workflow.

  • Protect the brand at menu level

    Corporate menu controls help keep required items, pricing, and operating standards consistent as new locations open or changes roll out across the network.

  • See network and location performance together

    Organization reporting gives a centralized view across accounts and locations, while Square Dashboard reporting can help teams investigate sales, customer activity, menu performance, and close-of-day trends.

  • Give customers benefits that travel

    Square Gift Cards can be sold online or in person and redeemed at any of a business’s Square locations. Square Loyalty can connect repeat-purchase rewards to the POS and online channels.

  • Equip both counter and field teams

    Square Register, Square Stand, and Square Handheld are listed by Square for franchise use. Handheld supports mobile or tableside orders and payments, while Register and Stand provide fixed checkout options.

  • Connect the stack instead of starting over

    Square says franchises can use partner integrations and open APIs, and its U.S. franchise page lists ordering, loyalty, gift-card, marketing, and delivery partners for organizations that need a broader technology stack.

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Product details

Built for corporate consistency and local execution

Square Multi-Account Suite is intended for franchise organizations managing multiple Square accounts, entities, and locations. Its published controls include organization reporting, corporate menu controls, centralized permissions, royalty calculation, shared gift cards, and an integrated POS. Square’s franchise page also states that the suite currently supports English only. Ask Square to map corporate and franchisee ownership, account structure, royalty workflow, and rollout responsibilities before implementation.

A practical operating stack for food-led franchises

For restaurant franchises, Square for Restaurants adds order management across in-house, online, delivery-partner, and QR-code channels, kitchen display workflows, online ordering, kiosks, loyalty, customer profiles, and multi-location oversight. Square’s capabilities page also points to Shifts, Payroll, Advanced Access, Dashboard, and payment tools for staffing, permissions, reporting, and checkout. These are complementary products and integrations; confirm which are included in the selected plan rather than assuming the franchise package includes every capability.

Plan and price by location, device, and volume

Square’s U.S. published plans are Square Free at $0 per location per month, Square Plus at $49 per location per month, and Square Premium at $149 per location per month. Plus and Premium include 30-day trials and can be canceled or changed. Multi-Account Suite itself is quoted based on the organization’s needs, and Square says merchants processing more than $250,000 per year can discuss custom pricing and processing fees. Hardware is purchased separately, and some tools such as KDS, kiosk software, payroll, gift-card loads, and transfers add their own charges or qualifications.

Payment continuity with clear operating limits

Square lists in-person tap, dip, or swipe processing at 2.6% + $0.15 on Free, 2.5% + $0.15 on Plus, and 2.4% + $0.15 on Premium. Online card payments are 3.3% + $0.30 on Free and 2.9% + $0.30 on Plus or Premium; manually keyed or card-on-file payments are 3.5% + $0.15 on all three plans. Offline payments can be stored for 24 hours, but they are automatically processed only after reconnection and may be declined if the device is not reconnected within that window. The merchant remains responsible for expired, declined, or disputed offline payments.

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Hardware

Square Register (2nd generation)

Square Register (2nd generation) puts seller checkout and customer payment on two responsive screens, so a bakery can move a morning line, a specialty grocer can keep a large catalog moving, and a restaurant can send orders through a counter workflow without passing a device back and forth.

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Hardware

Square Stand

Square Stand turns a compatible USB-C iPad into a tidy countertop POS with built-in contactless and chip payments.

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Hardware

Square Handheld

Square Handheld puts a complete Square checkout in a staff member’s hand instead of tying every sale to a counter.

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Hardware

Square Terminal

Square Terminal gives a bakery counter, coffee bar, food truck, salon desk, or service checkout one compact device for taking tap, chip, and magstripe payments.

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Square Reader for contactless and chip

Square Reader for contactless and chip (2nd generation) gives mobile operators and small counters a compact way to accept EMV chip cards, contactless cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, and Afterpay through a compatible phone or tablet.

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Hardware

Square Reader for magstripe

Square Reader for magstripe gives a mobile seller a simple way to take swipe payments through a compatible phone, tablet, MacBook, or Chromebook setup.

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Square Payments

Square Payments gives a U.S. business one account for accepting card-present, online, phone, invoice, ACH, wallet, and eligible Afterpay payments.

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Square Dashboard & Reporting

Square Dashboard gives a U.S. business a web-based command center for sales, transfers, invoices, customers, items, and team activity.

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Square Customer Directory / CRM

Square Customer Directory gives a U.S. business one place to organize customer contact details, purchase history, loyalty activity, preferences, and notes across Square sales channels.

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Square Gift Cards

Square Gift Cards gives a bakery, salon, café, retailer, or service business a branded way to sell value before the visit.

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Square Loyalty

Square Loyalty gives a U.S. business a practical way to recognize repeat customers without bolting on a separate rewards register.

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Square Shifts

Square Shifts gives growing U.S. businesses one connected place to publish schedules, capture hours, and prepare payroll.

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Square Payroll

Square Payroll gives a growing U.S. business one place to pay W-2 employees and 1099 contractors, import hours, tips, and commissions from Square tools, and keep federal and state filings on schedule.

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Square App Marketplace

Square App Marketplace is Square’s U.S. directory for discovering partner applications that connect to a Square account.

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Square Restaurant POS

Square Restaurant POS gives U.S. restaurants one connected place to take counter, tableside, online, pickup, delivery, and bar-tab orders.

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Square Online Ordering

Square Online Ordering gives a U.S. food-and-beverage business a branded ordering profile that customers can open from a website, Google, social posts, Yelp, or a QR code.

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Square Kitchen Display System

Square Kitchen Display System gives a restaurant’s back of house a live, digital view of incoming orders instead of relying on paper tickets.

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Business type

Quick Service

Quick-service restaurants need a register that can capture a rush of customized orders without losing the kitchen, online, or delivery queue.

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Coffee Shops

Coffee shops need a checkout that can handle a rush without losing the personal touch.

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Business type

Bars & Breweries

A busy bar or brewery needs more than a card reader: bartenders need quick open tabs, managers need a live view of sales and staffing, and taprooms need a clean way to connect counter service, pickup, merchandise, and events.

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Plan details

Pricing, fees & eligibility

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Square Multi-Account Suite pricing is custom and must be quoted for the organization. Square’s published U.S. plan baselines are Free at $0 per location/month, Plus at $49 per location/month, and Premium at $149 per location/month. Hardware is separate. Square says merchants processing more than $250,000 per year can discuss custom processing rates and other support or implementation options.

Fees & eligibility

  • Square Free subscription

    Published U.S. plan baseline; processing fees still apply.

    $0 per location per month
  • Square Plus subscription

    Published U.S. plan baseline; 30-day trial shown by Square; processing fees still apply.

    $49 per location per month
  • Square Premium subscription

    Published U.S. plan baseline; 30-day trial shown by Square; processing fees still apply.

    $149 per location per month
  • In-person tap, dip, or swipe

    Card-present payments; standard published U.S. rates.

    2.6% + $0.15 (Free); 2.5% + $0.15 (Plus); 2.4% + $0.15 (Premium) per transaction
  • Online card payment

    Card payments online or through an invoice; standard published U.S. rates.

    3.3% + $0.30 (Free); 2.9% + $0.30 (Plus or Premium) per transaction
  • Manual entry or card on file

    Applies when the card number is manually entered or a saved card on file is used; all listed plans.

    3.5% + $0.15 per transaction
  • ACH bank transfer via invoice

    Invoice ACH payment; standard published U.S. rates.

    1%, $1 minimum (Free); 1%, $1 minimum, $10 cap (Plus or Premium) per transaction
  • Square Gift Card load

    Free and Plus gift-card load fee; no additional fee when redeemed. Premium shows 0% load fee on Square’s pricing page. Standard payment processing may also apply when the card is loaded.

    Up to 2.5% of amount added
  • Custom processing pricing

    Square says eligibility can be discussed above $250,000 in annual processing; not an automatic approval or guaranteed rate.

    Custom quote
  • Square KDS app

    Additional to the plan; unavailable on Free according to Square’s U.S. pricing page.

    $30 per device per month (Plus); $20 per device per month (Premium)
  • Kiosk software

    Additional to the plan; Square Kiosk and Kiosk Lite require an active Plus or Premium subscription.

    $99 per device per month for Square Kiosk or $50 (Plus)/$30 (Premium) per device per month for Square Kiosk Lite

Requirements

  • A Square account and an approved U.S. seller setup are required; final eligibility, underwriting, and product availability must be confirmed with Square.
  • Multi-Account Suite pricing is organization-specific; confirm the number of accounts, entities, locations, permissions, reporting, and rollout scope in the quote.
  • Square Multi-Account Suite currently supports English only.
  • Square Kiosk and Square Kiosk Lite require an active Square Plus or Premium subscription.
  • Square Stand requires a compatible USB-C iPad; Square hardware uses Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Bluetooth, a phone, or an iPad depending on the device.
  • Offline payments require reconnection within 24 hours of the first offline payment; the seller assumes risk for expired, declined, or disputed offline payments.
  • Custom rates, hardware discounts, onboarding, implementation support, technical specialists, and account management are discussed with Square and are not guaranteed by the published franchise page.

Square’s franchise offering describes Multi-Account Suite capabilities, but its FAQ says pricing is based on the organization’s needs; this record does not infer a franchise subscription price.

Square’s published standard rates can vary by plan and payment method. Custom pricing is a sales discussion for merchants processing more than $250,000 per year, not a guaranteed qualification or rate.

Square’s franchise page states that Multi-Account Suite currently supports English only.

Hardware prices and installment terms can change; installment plans are subject to credit approval, geographic exclusions, purchase limits, and other stated terms.

Offline payments are not risk-free: the seller is responsible for expired, declined, or disputed payments accepted while offline.

Square Gift Cards can be redeemed across a seller’s Square locations, but the applicable load fee and payment-processing fee depend on the load method and plan.

Square’s listed banking, loans, payroll, and financial products have separate eligibility, underwriting, issuing-bank, and regulatory terms; inclusion in the franchise stack is not an approval.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What does Square offer a franchise organization?

Square Multi-Account Suite is designed to manage multiple Square accounts, entities, and locations with centralized controls, corporate menu controls, organization reporting, royalty calculation, shared gift cards, and an integrated POS. Each location can use Square’s local operating tools while corporate teams maintain oversight.

How much does Square Multi-Account Suite cost?

Square says to talk with its team for pricing based on the organization’s needs. Separately, Square publishes Free at $0 per location/month, Plus at $49 per location/month, and Premium at $149 per location/month. A franchise should not treat those plan baselines as the price of the multi-account offering or as a custom-rate quote.

Can customers use one franchise gift card at different locations?

Yes. Square says its Gift Cards can be redeemed at any of a seller’s Square locations, in person or online. Square also states there is no additional fee when a gift card is redeemed, while a load fee of up to 2.5% and the applicable payment-processing fee can apply when funds are added.

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