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Overview

Square Inc has a rating of 1.12 stars from 205 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Square Inc most frequently mention customer service, bank account, and credit card problems. Square Inc ranks 186th among Payment Processing sites.

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  • I had a disagreement with a customer service agent and my account was deactivated 2 minutes after my interaction.
  • Or they might say wait 90day but never gonna release your funds It's a scam Avoid this company Do not use square
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Top Positive Review

“Poor customer service”

Jeffery C.
2/9/24

They were a pretty good company at start cheap and easy customer support was never any good and it's still just as bad. Getting someone to help you is like pulling teeth with a shoe string. So the portal wouldn't let me delete my account go figure we know what that's about. Intuit QuickBooks did the same thing. Not to mention AT&t they all try to hang on to you. Well after 45 minutes on the phone 15 minutes of texting finally got it deleted horrible horrible customer service square I give you all a zero.

Top Critical Review

“Let's start class-action (lawsuit)together”

Tetsuzo O.
2/13/24

We opened shop at the end of October 2023.we sold over $10000 in a week. But they suddenly closed our account by no reason.And they said they hold 90days.then they will pay back to me.But of course never happen. Than I found this page. So let's start class-action (lawsuit)by same situation case.This is just scam.They have to go to jail.

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Thumbnail of user tetsuzoo
1 review
1 helpful vote
February 13th, 2024

We opened shop at the end of October 2023.we sold over $******* in a week. But they suddenly closed our account by no reason.And they said they hold 90days.then they will pay back to me.But of course never happen. Than I found this page.
So let's start class-action (lawsuit)by same situation case.This is just scam.They have to go to jail.

Thumbnail of user mikef1987
1 review
1 helpful vote
January 20th, 2024

Ordered the wrong hardware from square, they refused to cancel the order even though it hasnt shipped yet. Apparently thats their policy. No order cancellations... extremely shady busy and garbage customer service. I was planning on using their services but now I will never use square... horrible business practice

Tip for consumers:
stay away from square

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nothing because they refuse to cancel the order now I'm definitely not using anything from them and will dispute the charge when the item "never" shows up.

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Thumbnail of user elysiumhcllc
1 review
1 helpful vote
February 24th, 2024

I have been in business for over 20 years. Usually my clients pay in cash ACH or check. I started doing business with a new client that wanted to pay by credit card. Signed up with Square, the absolute worse decision I have made in business. They took the payments from my customer and then told me that I'm not approved as a merchant. They are holding my payment for 90 days and not refunding me the cost of joining and paying for additional services.
Customer service hung up on me when I asked to speak to a manager.
Class Action suit is needed

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Bank merchant services

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Thumbnail of user creditcourtinc
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 18th, 2024

DO NOT USE THIS SERVICE. As countless others have indicated, they will hold your business funds without notice and completely deactivate your account without reason. A business cannot survive with such practices. My customers money is being held for 90 days currently.

Tip for consumers:
They are indeed a scam.

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Square up app for credit card processing.

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Thumbnail of user williamr3596
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 5th, 2024

I have used Square without incident for over 8 years. Last 30 days has been a nightmare. Everything I have read on these reviews I have experienced. Verified funds withheld without valid reason or availability to discuss with reps. We have been ignored or plain ol lied to concerning "Held Funds"
We sold a service using Afterpay, and the next day Square took the Afterpay funds out of my account claiming they were protecting me. 2 days later, the transaction from Square TAKING MY MONEY, was still showing and a Rep claimed that it was credited back to me and "I spent it". There is no evidence of a credit in the amount that they debited. And no one at square gives a $#*! about explaining where the money is or why there are NO TRANSACTIONS TO SHOW THE MONEY WAS RETURNED OR SPENT. It has been almost 30 days and still no accruing or support from Square Inc

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Thumbnail of user sugarcoatspa
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 24th, 2024

Square is a the worst company. Greedy, terrible customer service. Not only they have the highest fees structure, they are greedy mf that will take their fees even on fraudulent transactions. Wouldn't surprise me if they initiated those transactions themselves to collect bogus fees. Stay away at all cost.

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Thumbnail of user joeh419
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
July 17th, 2022
Verified purchase

After going through a great deal of effort to set up my business to work with Square Up for appointments and aligning my calendar to sync up so that my clients would see appropriate days blocked off, I became comfortable and enjoyed knowing that my booking setup was in place for those wanting to schedule my services. However, Square disabled my appointment system without telling me and I only learned it by chance when showing someone how to use the website. When I signed into my account, I was presented with new Terms to which I would need to agree. Following that, my appointments site began working again. Next, a new client booked a gig and I noticed that a credit card wasn't placed on file. Apparently, the "No Show Protection" is no longer being offered in the free tier and users are being forced to upgrade to the next tier for $29 per month in order to keep this feature, a bait and switch method (if this was the original intent all along). In any case, the company knows how much trouble it would be for a busy company to switch things over, so we have no other option except to upgrade. They will get my money, but I'm telling everyone else to stay away!

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Thumbnail of user venusdonahuesfg
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 7th, 2024

I am a current customer of square and they make it very very difficult to receive your deposits I signed up for square to make my business grow not have to wait 2 weeks for one payment you have to answer tons and tons of questions about each one of your customers then they tell you on the phone that you only have to do it one time I've had to do it four times for One customer and I have been waiting for almost 2 weeks for a payment I can't ship my customers items I have bills to pay and can't pay them and now they're telling me I have to wait another 3 days the only reason why they make people wait so long I feel is so they can collect the interest to make more money for them why they cost all their customers money for everything else that they need they are a horrible company and their app is very hard to understand you can't get to payouts even though you have to have two apps for everything that you use and then when you have to have confirmation codes they send you the confirmation codes 20 minutes later I do not recommend them to any new business owner or older owner who would like to have processing

Tip for consumers:
Square makes it very difficult for new customers they delay all of your payments with all of their review questions when they tell you that they're not going to answer ask any more questions about an existing customer they continue to do so I have had to answer tons and tons and tons of questions with documents of one of my customers four times now and they've had been holding my money for over a week and it's every time every payment thus far I guess they like collecting all that interest from

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Processing and invoices

Thumbnail of user a.h12
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 16th, 2024

I'm forced to use them due to the limited consignment software integrations for my business. Everything with them is a hassle. Use Godaddy (lower % per transaction and WAY better customer service).

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Thumbnail of user katea293
1 review
1 helpful vote
December 29th, 2023

Although I had eight good years of using Square this past month, a Friday, and a Saturday of retail sales in December before Christmas, most of my debits disappeared. Between 1 o'clock and 5 o'clock on a Friday and on a Saturday in December all my transactions went through the processing system perfectly and never came to my account nor appeared on my dashboard after over 20 hours of trying to get a hold of a supervisor I would only be coming connected to lower level people that would either hang up or transfer my call and they would hang up and I could never get a solution. I lost over $350 in sales. The people on the helpdesk told me I had to take peoples phone numbers and credit card numbers so that they could get back to them and be sure their bank took out the money before they could ever help me. Use another credit card system processor if you want your money.

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If they did not have such an irritating customer service support system in place it may be a good system. Something technical happened and I could not get anybody to connect me with anybody that could help. I think that either somebody was crooked and they take money once in a while from a business or there were some technical error that nobody would even bother trying to clear up.

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Square up app and mobile device

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Thumbnail of user sunnym104
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 21st, 2024

A deposit error happened to the wrong bank account and the customer service just hung up on me when i tried to get help called back to speak to a supervisor they would not transfer me then i started swearing after asking 5 times to pass me to the supervisor then he told me he would hang up if i continued swearing i told him i asked 5 times without swearing and you still did not do it so i accentuated my swearing 100% then he threatened to block my number thtas what those fkn idiots do when your money is lost. Saty away from square again i state it.

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Thumbnail of user bridgetb355
1 review
0 helpful votes
November 22nd, 2023

Call, and they have no idea how to help, you just get passed from department to department. I just had a representative put me old hold and he came back and said "I can look into this now, sorry I just needed a few minutes!" Chat is even worse, bizarrely people just drop off the chats every few minutes and then a new person picks up.

Tip for consumers:
Square is a really expensive option from the percentage they take on fees. The site isn't user friendly, the support isn't well prepared, and the hardware is mediocre.

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Thumbnail of user jayl1004
1 review
0 helpful votes
December 20th, 2023

I changed my merchant bank account several months ago and have not been able to get the new account registered with Square. You cannot speak to a customer service representative by phone, they text you and expect you to sit for hours texting with them. When I requested speaking with someone in person the texts get really snarky and they absolutely refuse to let you speak with someone. Their automated phone system has NO option to speak by phone. I will be finding a new service as soon as I get my money from these clowns that they are holding.

Tip for consumers:
I would not use Square to process credit cards!!

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Thumbnail of user gd341
1 review
2 helpful votes
October 24th, 2023

This company refused to release $30,000 in payments, they closed our account twice and I would never even recommend them to my worst enemy - they are unreliable, no customer service, wont even pick up your calls once they have deactivated you, and they deactivate you WHILE THEY HOLD YOUR FUNDS HOSTAGE - they sent us an email saying 90 days they MAY release them. I have told the client to start a return with her bank and they better refund her -- SQUARE IS A NIGHTMARE AND THEY WILL STEAL FROM YOU

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Thumbnail of user yvettep168
1 review
1 helpful vote
September 26th, 2023

They want us to give them all our Informacion like bank account and routing number Foto ID and other personal Informacion and in one hour the send you email Saing the close your account while they're holding your money now they saying that its going for review and it will take 90 days
And the most funny part is that employers are higher that the managers 3 different employers told me.
I will give O - to square and will never use them or recommending to no one.

Thumbnail of user kassidyw4
1 review
0 helpful votes
July 5th, 2022

Easy for taking payments, however their security is absolutely terrible. If you choose to use the square debit card, and it gets hacked or stolen and all the money drained, they will not lock the account, take forever for disputes, and good luck getting your money back. If you try to get status updates, they'll tell you the same information they told you three months ago.

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Thumbnail of user davidr6011
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
January 10th, 2024

They have a phone line that directs you to a chatbot that directs you to email. Then, they don't email you. They have horrible customer service, and it's a total waste of time.

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Thumbnail of user michaelc8786
1 review
4 helpful votes
July 28th, 2023

I know that's too much to ask. I can't tell how many times a simple phone call for support turned into a headache of repetitive times saying one's email name phone and so on. Not even getting to the problem or less likely getting an solution. Ridiculous Square. Stop using and outsourcing out of country to people who barley speak and understand the language let alone can here us talking. So frustrating to use a company that is riddled with software challenges —as a business owner I've about had it!

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Service is choppy and customer service when outside United States is absolutely horrendous

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This is a POS company

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Thumbnail of user jefferyc223
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 9th, 2024

They were a pretty good company at start cheap and easy customer support was never any good and it's still just as bad. Getting someone to help you is like pulling teeth with a shoe string. So the portal wouldn't let me delete my account go figure we know what that's about. Intuit QuickBooks did the same thing. Not to mention AT&t they all try to hang on to you. Well after 45 minutes on the phone 15 minutes of texting finally got it deleted horrible horrible customer service square I give you all a zero.

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Thumbnail of user dougm387
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
September 18th, 2023

I can't believe that Square support is so terrible. My integration with Doordash has been down for 3 weeks now and I can't get a Square engineer to take a seriously look at it. They say they only communicate via email, but they only answer 1 email per day and it's always some nonsense to try and blame Doordash. Doordash is ready to talk to them, but they won't communicate with Dorodash at all. So frustrating.

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Thumbnail of user yolandan10
3 reviews
4 helpful votes
May 17th, 2019

I use them as a backup option in the event that my primary system is not working. Their fees are pretty high.

Thumbnail of user stevepapadakis2023
1 review
2 helpful votes
September 26th, 2023

They took my money and never gave it to me. We opened an account and made two charges from our client. The funds were not available until we submitted a bunch of paperwork and answered a bunch of questions. We did that twice over the course of 8 days. Long story short, they took my clients money, $30,000, and then deactivated our account. Here is the kicker. They hold the money for 90 days and they won't give you access to it. I called and they would not let me speak to a supervisor. "Supervisors don't speak with deactived account holders". What a crock of $#*!! They are like a bowl of condoms in a lesbian bar, completely useless.
$#*! em! This is why they have a ton of negative reviews...

Tip for consumers:
Never use this company. They are a ripoff!

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Thumbnail of user mccown13
1 review
5 helpful votes
September 12th, 2023
Verified purchase

I've never left an online review in my 25 years of life- but today I am going to every review website to try and warn people to not use square.

They will deactivate your account, suddenly, permanently, and without cause. They will also hold your money indefinitely, and generally make you hate your life - if not actually ruin your business.

They are a garbage company that have caused stress and harm to many people's businesses by doing very shady things, and getting away with it.

I do digital marketing services, I tried to accept one single payment, and square closed my account. In the 3 weeks since of dealing with them, I am honestly just defeated. I don't even want to explain my whole situation once again because there are tons of reviews and cases that show what kinds of things that square will do.

I just want to express my disgust, irritation, and everything in between with this bs company. All they have provided me are issues, stress, and more problems.

Absolutely f*ck square.

And my advice to you reading this right now, is to look at the incredible amount of reviews online that say the same thing. Please, seriously, do not use square.

Tip for consumers:
Square is an absolutely terrible company that has only had extremely negative impact on my business and life.

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Square Invoices

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Thumbnail of user keithc943
1 review
7 helpful votes
February 25th, 2023

Square has been holding a transaction of 90 +. 10= 100$ of mine for almost a week now. It's unbelievable in 2023, if you want to cancel a transaction with this company you can't without unnecessary paper work being uploaded. They're holding my money like it's theirs. I will never deal wit this shiesty company again. Release my funds going on day four now.

Tip for consumers:
Don't just sign up for apps, without reading their entire disclosures. I had no idea that you couldn't cancel a transaction action without meeting their standards

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Thumbnail of user sethc199
1 review
7 helpful votes
February 28th, 2023
Verified purchase

Do not use square. I just had a $2,000 transaction held, put under review and blatantly told to return because it was fraudulent without any insight as to why or how it was. Not only did they do this - they accused the customer of theft and had me portraying them in the same regard when in reality it is and was square the entire time! They pick and choose at will what transactions they want to review or little or no basis at all. They will seize your account and money and completely prevent you from using your business. Absolutely a huge rip off and scam and couldn't say one good thing about the company. Do not use them.

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