Square vs Rapid Eats Merchant
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.
Rapid Eats Merchant
Streamline restaurant operations with real-time order management. Accept or reject orders, update product availability, and control store hours directly from your mobile device. This tool offers a centralized dashboard for efficient business control.
- Real-time order alerts
- Accept/reject orders
- Update product availability
- Open/close store instantly
- Centralized dashboard
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Manage your restaurant with ease using the Rapid Eats Merchant App. Receive real-time order alerts via push notifications, accept or reject incoming orders, update product availability, open or close your store instantly, and more — all from one convenient dashboard.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Square at weekly against Rapid Eats Merchant's every 3 months. Square also leads on ratings volume (3.3K vs 1). Rapid Eats Merchant's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Rapid Eats Merchant holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Square has 3.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Square ships an update weekly, Rapid Eats Merchant every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Square | Rapid Eats Merchant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.3K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.3K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.1 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 320 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Block, Inc. | Rapid Eats |
Customer experience
Square
Rapid Eats Merchant
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
Rapid Eats Merchant
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Square
No in-app purchases
Rapid Eats Merchant
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Square free?
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