Square vs Bamboo Customer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Square
Manage your restaurant's front and back-of-house operations with a powerful point-of-sale system. Handle orders, customize menus, accept payments, and gain insights from real-time sales reports. Designed for dining in, takeout, and online orders.
- Order and payment processing
- Customizable online ordering site
- Menu management
- Flexible payment acceptance
- Offline payment capability
- Floor plan customization
- Real-time sales reports
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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
Bamboo Customer
This loyalty and marketing application empowers business owners to engage customers. Users can create profiles, earn reward points, and redeem them at designated locations, fostering customer retention and driving repeat business.
- Customer loyalty program
- Marketing tools for businesses
- Customer profile creation
- Reward points system
- Redeemable rewards at specific locations
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Bamboo Rewards is a one of a kind customer loyalty and marketing app. Our app is designed to support business owners by allowing customers to create a profile, and earn valuable reward points which can be redeemed at a specific location.
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bamboo Customer at 5.0 against Square's 4.3. Bamboo Customer also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.1). Square's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (4.2K vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Bamboo Customer 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 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Square ships an update every 6 days, Bamboo Customer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Square | Bamboo Customer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4.2K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4.2K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 775 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Block, Inc. | Bamboo Rewards LLC |
Customer experience
Square
Bamboo Customer
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
Bamboo Customer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Square
No in-app purchases
Bamboo Customer
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Square free?
Is Bamboo Customer free?
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