Square vs Sysco Shop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Square
Monitor your business performance, finances, and team from anywhere in real time. Track sales, manage cash flow, and update schedules with this powerful analytics tool.
- Real-time business monitoring
- Sales and performance tracking
- Financial management
- Team scheduling and payroll
- Customer management
- In-app notifications
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Have peace of mind with the new Square Dashboard app. Get a unified look at your business and manage essential tasks from anywhere in real time. Track business performance, monitor your finances, manage your team, and connect with your customers, all while you’re on the go. Stay on top of your business. Get alerts with in-app notifications. Track your business with multilocation reporting and sales reports. Plus, get data on your top sellers and performers. Understand and control your cash flow. Integrate your sales and spend reports, automate your budgeting, pay your bills, and manage your linked credit cards. Maintain smooth operations with team management tools. Make updates to schedules, view and edit timecards, and run payroll all in real time.
Sysco Shop
Easily shop Sysco's extensive product catalog from any device. Search for items, place orders, and access past order history. The app allows for order modification up to the delivery cut-off and offers offline sync for convenient ordering.
- Browse complete product catalog
- Search for key items
- Place quick orders
- Access 14 months of order history
- Modify existing orders
- Offline order syncing
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Shop Sysco products, anytime, anywhere. Sysco Shop allows you to search Sysco’s complete product catalog, locate key items from any page, and place quick and easy orders on your schedule. You can access up to 14 months of previous order history and modify existing orders up to the delivery cut-off time. Sysco Shop also features offline sync, so you can continue to build your order anytime, anywhere.
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Verdict
Square and Sysco Shop both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 48% of Sysco Shop's written reviews are positive against 25% of Square's. Sysco Shop also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (17K vs 3.4K). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Square against 4.7 for Sysco Shop. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sysco Shop has 17K ratings behind it against 3.4K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 25% of Square's written reviews are positive against 48% of Sysco Shop's.
Square ships an update weekly, Sysco Shop fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 19, 2026.
| Parameter | Square | Sysco Shop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.4K ratings) — better | 4.7 (17K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 25.3% of reviews | 48.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.4K | 17K — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 319 MB | 368 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Block, Inc. | Sysco Corporation |
Customer experience
Square
Sysco Shop
User reviews
Square
From 3.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fantastic app
- 🚀 Helps run business easily
- 🚀 All info in one place
- 🚀 Awesome app to check on business
- 🚀 Good app to check sales
Room to improve
- 🔍 Annoying papercuts
- 🔍 Configurable default comparison needed
- 🔍 Hierarchical categories not well integrated
- 💰 Misleading gross sales reporting
- 🔍 Difficult to remove shifts
Sysco Shop
From 17K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 💡 Convenient mobile ordering
- 🚀 Faster than competitors
- 👍 Great sales rep support
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and crashes
- 🔍 Poor search functionality
- 🔍 Difficulty modifying orders
- 🔍 Lack of product details
- 🔍 Navigation issues
Bugs and requests
Square
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes after updates
- Login issues after updates
- Widget stopped working after updates
- Freezing and not loading data
Requested features
8 requests- Make 52 weeks the default comparison
- Add iPad version
- Projections and estimated future income
- Ability to control what clients see
- Sound notifications for orders
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- More detailed reporting and breakdowns
- iPhone X support
- Ability to track net sales instead of just gross
Sysco Shop
Reported bugs
4 issues- Orders not loading properly
- App freezing and lagging
- Issues with order submission
- Inconsistent behavior after updates
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to zoom in on product images
- Option to select same-day delivery
- Easier order modification and deletion
- Improved search with predictive text
- Display of last price paid and default delivery date
In-app purchases
Square
No in-app purchases
Sysco Shop
No in-app purchases
