Square vs Aldelo Customer Display
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Square
This app is a comprehensive point-of-sale system designed for restaurants. It helps manage orders, payments, online ordering, menus, and table layouts. Gain insights with real-time sales reports and improve staff efficiency for dine-in, takeout, and online orders.
- Order and payment processing
- Online ordering site creation
- Menu management
- Table and floor management
- Real-time sales reports
- Offline payment acceptance
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The Square for Restaurants Point of Sale app helps you manage front- and back-of-house operations for your full-service restaurant, quick-service restaurant, fast-casual restaurant, bar, or brewery. Get the powerful point-of-sale system designed to serve guests who are dining in, getting takeout, or ordering online. Handle orders, set up menus, manage table layouts, accept payments, enable coursing, get insights from real-time sales reports, and more. ORDERS & PAYMENTS * Turn tables faster and keep lines moving. Increase staff efficiency with an easy-to-use, intuitive interface. * Empower servers to get every order right with the ability to enter orders the way people talk. * Take orders even when you’re short-staffed with QR codes. ONLINE ORDERING * Create a free, customizable online ordering site. * Manage all orders from your POS, including in-person, online, and third-party delivery orders. * Reach more diners with Google, Instagram, and Facebook selling integrations. MENU MANAGEMENT * Create and customize your menus from the office, remotely, or directly from your POS. * Keep service running smoothly with your staff always in the know of what’s selling and what’s about to sell out. FLEXIBLE PAYMENTS * Accept all major credit cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay so you never have to turn a diner away. * Set up automatic tipping, move or assign checks to your staff, reopen closed checks, and manage voids with just a few taps. * Never miss a sale with offline payments. Learn more at https://squareup.com/us/en/payments/offline-payments-guide. * Square handles all PCI compliance fees or chargebacks on your behalf. * Get deposits in your bank account as fast as the next business day or access your sales instantly with a Square Checking account. Learn more at squareup.com/us/en/banking. FLOOR MANAGEMENT * Customize your floor plan with intuitive click-and-drag layouts. * Tip out staff, close out the cash drawer, manage comps and voids, and run close-of-day reports all from the POS. * Keep tables turning by monitoring their real-time status. * Stay on pace with coursing — letting the kitchen know when to hold or start firing dishes. SUPPORT * Customer support available to guide you through any questions. Learn more about Square for Restaurants and set yourself up from Square Dashboard before activating this app on an iOS device: https://squareup.com/us/en/point-of-sale/restaurants
Aldelo Customer Display
This app provides an interactive multimedia display for customer order confirmation and payments in fast-casual restaurants, bars, and retail stores. It replaces traditional pole displays with a full-screen experience, allowing customers to review orders, make payments, and view advertisements.
- Interactive order confirmation
- Multimedia advertisements
- Self-service payments
- On-screen signature capture
- Emailed receipt options
- Seamless POS integration
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*** Aldelo Express Customer Display requires Aldelo Express Restaurant Cloud POS to be paired *** Aldelo Express Customer Display provides fast casual restaurants and bars, as well as retail stores interactive & multimedia customer order confirmation and payments. Stores also has the ability to present product pictures and offers to guests. Instead of using the antiquated pole display to only show case ordered items two lines at a time, Aldelo Express Customer Display offers much more. Our Customer Facing Display app integrates seamlessly with Aldelo Express Restaurant Cloud POS. Super easy to use and made for customer facing operations without any prior experience required. *** Customer Order Confirmation *** Versatile display options that takes advantage of the entire iPad screen to present customer facing order confirmation. Providing clear view of what the customer has ordered in a fast casual or retail setting. Allowing customers to scroll ordered items for a full transparency and stay in compliance with State laws that requires customer facing displays. A much better evolutionary solution to the old and antiquated 2 line pole displays. *** Interactive Self Service Payments *** Our customer facing display is fully interactive. Not only will you be able to allow customers to scroll through ordered items, your customers can also initiate payment options directly. Our display also provides option to prompt for gratuity and on screen signature capture, along with emailed receipt options, giving customers the full interactive experience and speed up transaction processing at the counter. *** Multimedia Advertisements *** Our customer facing display also has the ability to present multimedia advertisements, showcasing your store's products and services, as well as special offers and seasonal deals. Giving you the ability to captivate your customers while at the counter and increase current and future sales. Get the Aldelo Express Customer Display today, and increase customer satisfaction and experience.
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Aldelo Customer Display at 5.0 against Square's 4.3. Aldelo Customer Display also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.1). Square's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (4.2K vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Aldelo Customer Display holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Square has 4.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Square ships an update every 6 days, Aldelo Customer Display every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Square | Aldelo Customer Display |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4.2K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4.2K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 792 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Block, Inc. | Aldelo |
Customer experience
Square
Aldelo Customer Display
Bugs and requests
Square
Reported bugs
5 issues- Orders not processing correctly
- Transactions not completing
- Inventory updates not syncing
- Shift reports not printing properly
- Card reader disconnection issues
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to split items across checks
- Hold/save orders functionality
- Improved inventory management
- Better reporting and analytics
- Mobile app for managing the restaurant
Aldelo Customer Display
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Square
No in-app purchases
Aldelo Customer Display
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Square free?
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