How to put a kiosk next to Square

The most common reason an owner puts off a kiosk is that switching the register feels like a month of pain. It is — so do not switch it. A kiosk can stand beside Square, Clover or Toast and take its own orders, with its own card reader and its own kitchen printer.

How the two live together

The kiosk runs on our software with its own payments, and it prints to its own printer in the kitchen. Your register keeps doing what it does: cash, the regulars, anything complicated. Neither one needs the other to be working.

What that means for your numbers

You get two reports instead of one. Card money from the kiosk lands in your Stripe account in two days; card money from your register lands wherever it lands today. Most owners reconcile them the way they already reconcile cash and cards — one number plus another number.

If that bothers you, it is the reason to eventually move the register too. It is not a reason to wait a year before putting a kiosk in front of the morning line.

The kitchen

Two printers is the simple answer: the kiosk prints its own tickets, the register prints its own. Tickets look the same and go in the same order they were paid. If you add our kitchen screen later, kiosk orders appear there and register orders keep printing.

What it costs

The kiosk bundle is $1,899 installed and $99 a month, and it includes the three review stands. Nothing about your existing register changes, and there is no contract on our side.

What to watch for

Two things. First, menu drift: if a price changes on Square and nobody changes it on the kiosk, guests will notice before you do — so change both the same morning, or move the menu to us. Second, staff habit: for the first week somebody will keep re-ringing kiosk orders on the register out of reflex. That stops by day three, and the kitchen tickets make it obvious when it happens.