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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adyen

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAdyen is a payment gateway software solution offered by Adyen.N/A

    Square POS

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASquare POS is a point-of-sale software solution for restaurants, retail, or appointment-based businesses. It features numerous inventory (or menu) management and control features, and options that allow customers to pay in any way they want or can.

    $10

    per each additional reader; first reader free

    Pricing
    AdyenSquare POS
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Each Transaction
    2.6% + $0.10
    per transaction
    Square Reader for magstripe
    $10
    per each additional reader; first reader free
    Square Stand for contactless and chip
    $16
    per month
    Square Terminal
    $27
    per month
    Square Register
    $39
    per 24 months
    Square Reader for contactless and chip
    $49
    per reader
    Square Point of Sale
    Free
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AdyenSquare POS
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AdyenSquare POS
    Considered Both Products
    Adyen
    No answer on this topic
    Block, Inc (Square)
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    39 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    39 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    38 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    37 Answers
    Features
    AdyenSquare POS
    Payment Gateways
    Comparison of Payment Gateways features of Adyen and Square POS
    Feature
    Adyen
    9.6
    9 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Square POS
    -
    Ratings
    Fraud Detection9.69 Ratings00 Ratings
    API or SDK9.79 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recurring Payment Support9.59 Ratings00 Ratings
    Billing and Invoicing Support9.69 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global Support9.69 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payment Form Acceptance9.89 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Payoneer
    Score8 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Checkout.com
    Score10 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    AdyenSquare POS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (16 ratings)
    9.0
    (61 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (18 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AdyenSquare POS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adyen
    Ayden has been a great resource for us with international transactions. We know that they can be a trusted gateway when it comes to dealing with our client's money. Thankful to have that confidence in this system. It also has a user-friendly interface, which allows for a concise process with clients as well.
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    Block, Inc (Square)
    Square POS is by far the easiest POS software to use at events and train additional team members on - even with temporary or first-time employees. It's easy to see how each event is doing in live time. It gives the event manager a real-time view of revenue earned. Its really easy to create/manage/delete users to keep the platform secure.
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    Pros
    Adyen
    • PCI DSS Compliant Solution
    • Provided options to configure a specific list of payments, like Alipay, ACH, PayPal, etc.
    • Good support and quick solution for the technical help
    • Well described documentation on technical integrations
    • Drop in framework to display the payment options
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    Block, Inc (Square)
    • Mobile transactions (not like from a phone, but in terms of the ability to physically relocate rapidly).
    • Simple setup.
    • Generally uncomplicated pricing.
    • Widespread customer familiarity: because it's so regularly in use in our industry (musicians/entertainment professionals), people know and trust it in a way that you might not with a different provider.
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    Cons
    Adyen
    • I would like to be able to create my own reports, like a combination between "Received payment details" and "Interactive payment accounting".
    • Maybe you can have a better integration with PayPal. The disputes are reflected all wrong in Adyen, for example if we accept a chargeback in PayPal, in Adyen we see a "chargeback reversed" status first, then we see a "refund" status. This is very confusing for us, we have accepted that chargeback, which means we have lost the case, what are a Chargeback Reversed and a Refund statuses doing here? I think PayPal is trying to unblock the transaction that received the chargeback, but this is a very confusing way of handling the chargebacks. If I look at the "Dispute transaction details" reports, all the PayPal chargebacks are "won" because of that "Chargeback reversed" status, which is obviously wrong, we lose some cases and we win others.
    • Amex chargebacks could be integrated. We don't see them in Adyen at all.
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    Block, Inc (Square)
    • Too much going on for simple users. There are so many different apps and pages now that I get lost almost every time I log onto Square
    • The high percentage of fees taken from sales
    • The difficulty in changing default settings
    • The layout of the “website” you can create is truly a nightmare
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adyen
    Well, Ayden is a very easy system to manage, it allow the user a nice visibility and many details about the clients. It integrated very easily to our system and allow us to increase our activity. In addition, Ayden have a very good help center that available all the time and very helpful.
    Incentivized
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    Block, Inc (Square)
    I don't really foresee anything being able to dislodge Square from our organization—we're not evangelists or anything like that—it's just the best solution we've found for our use case. Being able to quickly handle transactions from customers and then track all of those sales for analysis/bookkeeping later on.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Adyen
    No answers on this topic
    Block, Inc (Square)
    We find Square POS is very user friendly. Its interface is customizable to our needs and very easy to use. Before we adopted Square POS, we used a combination of solutions from different manufacturer to try and achieve a portion of the functionality that Square POS provides under only 1 login
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Adyen
    Response time are as expected, and Adyen team is always knowledgeable and are clear subject matter experts. Quite often I am assigned an engineer who is not in our time zone and sometimes 8-12 hours different from me. This causes delays in resolution due. It would be great to have a support agent who is located in the US.
    Incentivized
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    Block, Inc (Square)
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Adyen
    No answers on this topic
    Block, Inc (Square)
    An admission - I have NEVER had to use Square POS support. The system is seamless, it just works! I have never had any queries about how the system worked as everything is so clearly laid out. I have never had any problems with payments. If their support systems are anywhere near as good as their software, I think we'll be in good hands.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adyen
    Adyen has better handling of Disputes, provides much more detailed forecasts and withdrawal reports. Adyen has a specific page to clear doubts much more complete. Adyen have not fees for processing refunds, have not fess for chargeback received, and have not fees for retry process payments. And your processing fees are very attractive.
    Incentivized
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    Block, Inc (Square)
    We only used Square POS while we were getting set up with Authorize.Net. It isn't as flashy or recognized by the general public, but in our industry, that isn't a priority. We do very large transactions so the higher rates and fees from Square add up insanely quickly making the lower rates and fees from Authorize.Net the nail in Square's coffin for us.
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    Return on Investment
    Adyen
    • I cannot see any negative impact.
    • It is good to synchronize the payment details that come from Adyem in our CRM and this allows us, now, to manage refunds and subscriptions in there and get any action done in real time and recorded in all the platforms.
    • Quick and reliable it is a good tool to be used for managing and checking credit card transactions details.
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    Block, Inc (Square)
    • The opportunity cost of waiting for payments and manually bringing them to a bank means that we don't have to visit our bank branch. That alone saves us several hours each month.
    • We can use ordinary computers and mobile devices with Square instead of paying for expensive software or terminals.
    • Our clients appreciate not having to process payments to us, and anything that helps our clients and makes them happy carries more import than I can explain in this space.
    Incentivized
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