FreedomPay is a point-of-sale software solution with features such as PCI-validated point-to-point encryption.
N/A
PayPal Payments Pro
Score8.5 out of 10
N/A
PayPal Payments Pro is an enterprise-class ecommerce payment solution, that provides payment processing security to build a professional-grade ecommerce site. It can be configured to meet business needs and works across devices. Users can tap into over 390 million active customer accounts around the globe.
$0.02
per transaction
Square POS
Score9 out of 10
N/A
Square 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
FreedomPay
PayPal Payments Pro
Square POS
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
QR code Transactions
1.90% + fixed fee
per transaction
Charity Transactions
2.20% + fixed fee
per transaction
Commercial Transactions - In-Store
2.70% + fixed fee
per transaction
Commercial Transactions - Online
2.90% + fixed fee
per transaction
PayPal's pay later offers
2.90% + fixed fee
per transaction
Venmo
2.90% + fixed fee
per transaction
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
FreedomPay
PayPal Payments Pro
Square POS
Free Trial
No
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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FreedomPay
PayPal Payments Pro
Square POS
Considered Multiple Products
FreedomPay
No answer on this topic
PayPal
Verified User
Chose PayPal Payments Pro
We use other products for other situations, but as far as sending money PayPal is hard to beat. We've used Square POS at live events to collect donations and payments for tickets, simply because the swipe accessory for iPhone was convenient and easy to use. We haven't had live …
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Verified User
Chose PayPal Payments Pro
PayPal was one of the first companies to offer the swipe via phone equipment and feature for sales and easily integrated products from the e-commerce site. Although other companies began and do offer the same features, PayPal was/is the most well-known and established payment …
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Producer in Marketing at Essential Sales Training (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees)
Chose PayPal Payments Pro
Honestly, we use Paypal because of the easy interface with our websites, and the fact that Paypal Payments comes included in the Woocommerce plugin. Square requires the purchase of an extra plugin. Square, I believe, has a better POS setup. We do use Square on site for our …
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Verified User
Chose PayPal Payments Pro
PayPal is more globally accepted, therefore a better platform for our team.
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Executive Assistant Office Manager in Finance and Accounting at Moakler Wealth Management Inc. (Financial Services, 1-10 employees)
Chose Square POS
I use Stripe, Paypal and Payoneer but they don't have the actual hardware (that I am aware of). I use them to either get payments or send payments online. I use both Stripe and PayPal Payments Pro on my websites and Payoneer to recieve pay from contracts for work I do.
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Verified User
Chose Square POS
In our experience, every solution we tried in the past never fully met our needs. They always came with shortcomings and / or compromises. Square POS is the first solution we have tried that offers everything our business needs and provides us with enough room for our business …
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Digital Marketing in Marketing at Welcomemat (Consumer Services, 11-50 employees)
Chose Square POS
Square was the most recognized platform out there and I decided to go with them because of the brand and marketing I was targeted with as a business owner. Also, Square POS was the only tool with multi-factor security and integrated with a lot of other tools that I use for the …
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Owner in Social Media at Nathan Kentucky Music (Entertainment, 1-10 employees)
Chose Square POS
The only other real competitor that we looked at was PayPal Here and we went with Square because the fee structure felt fairer, and because our customers were much more familiar with the Square hardware and ecosystem, rather than trying to convince them that Paypal was a viable …
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Verified User
Chose Square POS
I personally prefer Stripe and PayPal as payment options for my appointment-based coaching business. Both integrate seamlessly with my Squarespace website, my Acuity Scheduling software, and the Quickbooks Self-Employed software I use. Though Square POS is perfectly adequate, I …
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Co Owner in Sales at Little Minnow (Retail, 1-10 employees)
Chose Square POS
When we first looked for a POS system, we compared it to the merchant services offered by our bank. Square was way more affordable and easy to use. Since then, as other systems have developed, we have looked into them but never found reason to switch. While PayPal offered …
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I was looking for a new payment system that would be able to handle all our transactions and the team at FreedomPay was able to do just that. FreedomPay is a payment system that is adaptive and can adapt to the needs of the market. They are data-driven so they can adjust to the wants and needs of the market. They are able to handle the load of millions of transactions per day which is a plus for any business.
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Paypal is great for personal payments as well as business payments for ecommerce of for paying monthly memberships. It is a user friendly software that needs little expertise to get used to. For larger payments, the fees become high therefore it is more suitable for payments of upto few hundred dollars.
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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PayPal offers me the option of converting my currency deposited in my account to another currency, so I can complete all kinds of payments and send money to employees who are in another country for business reasons.
The mobile phone application is too fast, I can make payments to my employees in a matter of seconds without having to wait for the web version to load.
Scheduled payments are great. PayPal allows me to add a list of contacts to my PayPal Business account, and after adding the contacts, I can schedule payments for a specific day and time. It's easier to make automated payroll payments with PayPal.
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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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Sometimes the UX flow would not deliver the customer back to our site, leaving orders in limbo "Pre-approved" status. The customer would call days later asking why we hadn't shipped it.
The PayPal logo on the checkout page can be kind of large and obtrusive.
They mention new features and programs on their login page, but it's hard to find any details on them deeper in the software.
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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.
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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
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Customer service representatives were unable to explain why customer in Australia were unable to make payments using our link. It turned out that customers in Australia must create an account. PayPal's user interface did not reveal this to our customers in Australia. There was plenty about this issue appearing in online forums and PayPal customer service couldn't explain this. This change in PayPal's usability happened between April and May of 2021 and was done without notice to vendors (like us).
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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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I don't think there's really any competition here. There's Venmo (also owned by PayPal) who is now offering business accounts, but it still isn't quite the same. The closest thing in terms of ease of use would be Apple Pay or Google Pay (and there are a handful of others out there, but we offer Apple and Google Pay). As a business, I prefer Apple or Google Pay to PayPal Payments, but we offer either Google or Apple Pay, PayPal, and credit card options and PayPal is always right up there with credit cards. I don't foresee us ever getting rid of PayPal Payments as an option, but we do try to only offer it on request for higher ticket items or high dollar installment purchases.
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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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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.
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