Comparison
delEat and Square, side by side.
A payments business; Square for Restaurants is its restaurant POS.2 This page sets out where the two differ for a restaurant in the UAE, using only what Square publishes about itself, read on 25 and 26 September 2026. Where its pages say nothing, the table says so.
Credit where it is due
What Square is good at.
Published per-location pricing with a free tier, its own payments and its own hardware line, in the countries it serves.3
Row by row
delEat and Square, on what a UAE restaurant checks.
The Square column is only what its own pages say; the numbers are the sources at the foot of the page.
| delEat | Square | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A cloud restaurant POS: the till, the kitchen screens, the floor, stock, recipes and the books in one system. | A payments business; Square for Restaurants is its restaurant POS.2 |
| Price, as published | AED 149, 429 or 719 per outlet a month (Tab, Shift, Command) on a 2-year term, paid up front; 169, 479 or 799 billed yearly; 199, 579 or 949 billed monthly. Enterprise is quoted. | On its US page: USD 0, 49 or 149 a month per location (Free, Plus, Premium), plus card fees from 2.6% + 15 cents in person.3 |
| Priced per | Outlet, with unlimited tills and handhelds on every plan. | Location.3 |
| Free trial | 30 days, every module on, no card. | In the US, 30 days of Square Plus.2 |
| In the UAE | Built and supported in Dubai by The Hungry Inc.; live chat with a person, any hour. | Not offered: its country list has no UAE.1 |
| Arabic in the POS | The till, the kitchen display, the floor, shift and cash-up, reservations, orders and clock-in run right to left; receipts can print their headings in Arabic beside the English. Other screens are English only. | Not published. |
| UAE VAT and TRN | A legal entity and TRN per outlet; tax invoice or invoice by registration; credit notes on their own series; a threshold watcher. No e-invoicing yet. | Not published. It does not serve the UAE. |
| Trading offline | Yes: new orders and payments with no network, replayed once when the line returns. | Offline card payments for up to 24 hours, at the merchant’s risk.2 |
| Kitchen display | Shift plan and up, two screens an outlet. | Yes, paid per device on Plus and Premium.3 |
| Inventory and recipe costing | Shift plan and up: inventory, recipes and live food costing. | Inventory tracking on Plus; ingredient level through a paid add-on.3 |
| UAE delivery platforms | Talabat, Careem, Deliveroo, Noon Food, EatEasy, Smiles and Keeta through UrbanPiper. Our team connects your stores during setup. | US partners such as Uber Eats and DoorDash. No UAE platforms.2 |
| Several outlets | Yes; group BI, central recipes and per-outlet pricing on Command. | Yes, single and multi-location.2 |
| Hardware | None of its own: any browser, on tablets, printers and drawers you may already own. | Its own: handheld, terminal, register, stand and kiosk.3 |
| Payments | Your own acquirer and rate at the till; online through Stripe, Telr or N-Genius. No cut of your sales. | Its own card processing, which the plans are built around.3 |
Where delEat is different
The differences that change a shift.
- Sold and supported in the UAE
- Square’s own list of countries does not include the UAE. delEat is built and supported in Dubai, priced in dirhams, with the service screens in Arabic as well as English.
- No cut of your sales
- Square’s plans are built around its own card processing, with US fees from 2.6% + 15 cents in person. delEat takes no per-transaction fee; you keep your acquirer and your rate.
- UAE VAT by legal entity
- A TRN per outlet, tax invoice or invoice by registration, and credit notes on their own series.
Where delEat falls short
What Square has, or delEat does not do yet.
- Where it operates, Square has a free tier, payments of its own and its own hardware3. delEat starts at AED 149 per outlet a month on a 2-year term and sells neither payments nor hardware.
- delEat’s import from Square is mapped but untested, so it is on request.
- Coming soon, and not in delEat today: a read API with keys, mall reports by SFTP, card payment at the self-service kiosk, a rider app, e-invoicing and SSO and directory sync.
On pricing
As each one publishes it.
Square: On its US page: USD 0, 49 or 149 a month per location (Free, Plus, Premium), plus card fees from 2.6% + 15 cents in person.3
delEat: AED 149, 429 or 719 per outlet a month (Tab, Shift, Command) on a 2-year term, paid up front; 169, 479 or 799 billed yearly; 199, 579 or 949 billed monthly. Enterprise is quoted. Thirty days free without a card. See the pricing page.
Sources
Where every fact about Square comes from.
- Square, home page and country list. https://squareup.com/us/en. Read on 25 and 26 September 2026.
- Square, Square for Restaurants page (US). https://squareup.com/us/en/point-of-sale/restaurants. Read on 25 and 26 September 2026.
- Square, restaurant pricing page (US). https://squareup.com/us/en/point-of-sale/restaurants/pricing. Read on 25 and 26 September 2026.
About this comparison. This page is published by delEat and is marketing material, prepared for general comparison only. Everything stated about Square is taken from what Square publishes on its own website, on the pages listed above, read on 25 and 26 September 2026. Everything stated about delEat is what the product does today; what is coming soon or waiting on certification is labelled that way.
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