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Landing Platform vs Square: a till inside your whole business
Square is free to start, then adds marketing, loyalty and staff tools as monthly extras. Landing's till sits in the same system as your online shop, CRM, email, rota and HR, priced by the people who run it.
Landing suits you if
- You have outgrown adding a paid extra for each new job
- You want in-store and online buyers on one customer record
- You want a till built for UK VAT and electronic sales suppression rules
Where free to start stops being free.
Square makes the first sale easy. The costs arrive as the business grows around it.
Marketing costs extra
Marketing and loyalty are add-ons, from £9 and from £25 a month, as listed.
Extras add up
Kitchen display and advanced access are each their own monthly fee too.
Still the rest
Square runs the counter. Your CRM, helpdesk, projects and HR still live somewhere else.
Landing Platform vs Square, line by line.
Landing's till covers the counter and the floor. The rest of the table is the business Square leaves to other tools.
| Feature | Landing Platform |  Square |
|---|---|---|
| Counter till | Barcode scanning with several codes per item, discounts and refunds | Square Point of Sale |
| Hospitality floor | Tables and open tabs, with split bills across cash and card | Square for Restaurants |
| Tips | Kept out of turnover, with cash and card tips recorded separately | Tip tracking in Shifts |
| Tamper-evident record | A chained log of every sale, refund and drawer event, built for UK electronic sales suppression rules, with VAT by rate on every receipt | Sales history in its dashboard |
| Customers and CRM | Contacts, companies, deals and pipelines, with in-store and online orders on one record | Customer directory |
| Email marketing | Campaigns, flows and segments on what customers bought | Marketing, from £9 a month |
| Staff rota and HR | Shift rota with kiosk clock-in, leave, timesheets and HR records | Shifts |
| Online shop | Checkout with Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal and Klarna, plus subscriptions and rentals | Online store |
| Helpdesk and live chat | One inbox for email and live chat, a help centre, and the customer's orders beside every ticket | Not its product |
| Projects and invoicing | Projects, timesheets, and invoices from hours, milestones or retainers | Invoices |
Square details reflect its publicly available plans as of 2026; check current details on its own site.
Switching is our job, not yours.
We move you over one tool a month, against success criteria we agree with you up front. You don't pay until we prove each one is ready.
We map your stack
Show us your Square setup and the tools around it. We agree what moves where, and what "ready" means for each tool, before you commit to anything.
We move Square across
Your products, prices, barcodes, VAT rates and customers move across as part of the switch. We set up your tables, staff permissions and cash-up routine, and run a trial shift before the old till goes.
You sign it off
Billing starts only when we have shown it works against the criteria you set. Then we move the next tool, one a month.
But Square was free to start.
It was. Here are the questions owners ask us most when they are weighing it up.
Can Landing's till run table service?
Yes. Open tabs on tables, add to them through the evening, and split the bill across cash and card at the end. Only the cash goes into the drawer count.
How are cash-ups handled?
Each shift has its own drawer. Staff count up, the till reconciles against what it expected, and X and Z reads give the figures. Managers can see each person's variance history.
Planning next month's shifts?
Get the free staff rota template and plan cover across the week.
“We were running PR, social scheduling and the rest of our marketing across half a dozen tools that never talked. Now we plan, schedule and measure from a single screen.”
Run the whole business from behind the counter.
Thirty minutes on your shop and the tools around it. We'll show you what moves, what it costs and when billing would start.