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The Square alternative built for cafés
More than a generic POS — loyalty, an online store, and a till that’s built around your café and your brand.
Square is a great place to start, but it’s a generic system that treats loyalty and online ordering as add-ons and keeps payments locked to Square. R3·POS is built for the independent café: loyalty and an order-ahead store are first-class and included, everything runs on your own brand, and card payments settle through your own Stripe account.
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The Square alternative built for cafés
What matters
R3·POS
Them
Built for
Independent cafés, specifically
A generic POS for any small business
Payment processor
Your own Stripe account — money settles to your bank
Locked to Square Payments
Loyalty
First-class, included — cross-merchant wallet, no app to download
Paid add-on subscription
Online store
Included — order-ahead storefront on your brand
Generic online store, your brand under Square’s
Monthly cost
A flat plan per counter, from $19/mo
Free tier, then paid add-ons stack up
Hardware
A Sunmi desktop terminal + a Stripe reader, set up for you
Square hardware, locked to Square
Questions
Answers before you ask
R3·POS is built specifically for independent cafés, with loyalty and an online store included and everything on your own brand — not a generic POS with paid add-ons.
Card payments run through your own Stripe account and settle to your bank. You’re not locked to a single in-house processor the way you are with Square.
No. Loyalty is part of the platform from the entry plan — digital stamps and the cross-merchant wallet, stamped automatically on every paid order.
See the all-in-one for yourself
Loyalty, your online store, and your point of sale — one platform, on your brand, live the same day.
Comparison based on publicly available information about competitor plans and is current to the best of our knowledge; vendor terms and pricing change often — verify the latest on each provider’s own site.