thread Re: Switching from Square Restaurant to Retail in Orders, Menu Items, Catalog & Fulfilment

Switching from Square Restaurant to Retail

coffeevault — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 14:24:48 GMT

I have a client who is hoping to switch from Square Restaurants to Square Retail. They operate as a restaurant, but feel that Retail will better fit their current business needs. The restaurant's primary register was preloaded with Square Restaurant when they received it. Can we move forward with cancelling the Restaurant subscription without losing that register?

Re: Switching from Square Restaurant to Retail

HC_Charlie — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 19:56:03 GMT

Hello @coffeevault thanks for your question. Check out this older thread for a similar question. And maybe someone else who currently switches between the two can add a comment in this thread.

https://www.sellercommunity.com/t5/Food-and-Beverage/Can-I-use-my-Square-Register-for-Restaurant-and-Retail/td-p/316291

It sounds like it's a matter of logging out of Restaurants, then logging into Retail. But I'm not certain what steps (if any) you'd need to take to enable anything special in your Square Dashboard.

Re: Switching from Square Restaurant to Retail

MayaP — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 20:06:46 GMT

Hey there @coffeevault Welcome To The Seller Community!

Your client can absolutely use the Square Register and Square Retail. Thank you for providing that link @HC_Charlie, in JJ_ does provide insight. You pretty much just need to sign out and then back in and it should ask which subscription you want to use standard, retail, appointments, or restaurants. I do not currently have a register so I won't be able to provide any screenshots. But If you are still having any issues let me know!