Migrate from Square for Restaurants
Move from Square for Restaurants to PeakSpitz, safely.
Moving off Square for Restaurants should feel like restoring from a backup, not a leap of faith. Your restaurant POS data is read into a PeakSpitz environment of your own, checked against your real numbers, and run in parallel — while Square for Restaurants keeps running, untouched, the whole time. Here is exactly how, step by step.
Square for Restaurants earns its reputation on speed — you can build an item library, modifiers, a floor plan and KDS in an afternoon and be taking orders, with everything bundled into one tidy ecosystem. For a small-to-mid restaurant that simplicity is the whole point. The common reason to move is outgrowing it: multi-location reporting, real accounting with VAT and inventory that goes deeper than an item count often sit outside Square's restaurant surface, and pricing tends to scale per device and per bundled add-on. PeakSpitz keeps the fast-setup spirit but puts sales, storefront, inventory, real accounting with VAT and payments in one EU-hosted platform with unlimited users.
The safe way to leave Square for Restaurants
Work down the list at your own pace. Nothing here is irreversible, and your current system stays live throughout.
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Before you touch anything — get a backup you own
Get a copy of your data out of Square for Restaurants that you control — a file held on your side, not just a setting inside the system. Confirm in your contract that you have the right to export, and note any renewal, notice or lock-in dates so the timing stays on your terms.
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Export your data
Pull your menu, orders, customers and sales history out of Square for Restaurants in the most complete format it offers — CSV, spreadsheet, or an account/API export. Take the history too, not just open items: past records, documents and contacts are worth keeping.
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Send us a sample
Before you commit, send us a representative slice — a handful of customers, a few recent orders or bookings, part of your catalogue. We map it into PeakSpitz and show you the restored result, so you see exactly how your restaurant POS data lands before you move the rest.
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See what maps to what
We line Square for Restaurants up against PeakSpitz: your menu, orders, customers and sales history become customers, catalogue, orders, documents and ledgers in one joined-up system. Anything without an obvious home is flagged early, not discovered late.
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Bring it in — a read-only restore
Your data is read into a fresh, isolated PeakSpitz environment of your own. Nothing inside Square for Restaurants is touched, changed or switched off — it keeps running exactly as it is.
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Verify against your numbers
Before you trust it, reconcile the totals — balances, counts, tax and revenue — against what Square for Restaurants shows today. The numbers have to match before anything goes live.
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Run both in parallel
Keep Square for Restaurants live and run PeakSpitz alongside it for as long as you like. Compare like for like, move one area across first, and build trust before you depend on it. No big-bang cutover, and no deadline from us.
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Cross over and decommission — on your terms
Switch over only when PeakSpitz has earned it. Keep your Square for Restaurants export archived as a safety net, and close the old subscription when you are ready — not a moment before.
What maps where: Square for Restaurants → PeakSpitz
Square for Restaurants
Item Library (items)
PeakSpitz
Products / catalogue
Square for Restaurants
Categories
PeakSpitz
Product categories
Square for Restaurants
Modifier sets & variations
PeakSpitz
Product options and variants
Modifier sets are rebuilt rather than imported one-to-one, since the option structure differs.
Square for Restaurants
Floor plan, sections & tables
PeakSpitz
Open sales orders (tabs)
The visual floor layout is re-created front-of-house on the terminal; PeakSpitz owns the order behind it.
Square for Restaurants
Customer Directory
PeakSpitz
Customers
Square for Restaurants
Sales history & reports
PeakSpitz
Sales orders + built-in accounting with VAT
Reporting depth moves from the POS surface into real double-entry accounting.
What to watch when leaving Square for Restaurants
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Square's bundled card processing and terminals are inseparable from the POS. When you leave Square, payment terminals re-pair and card handling is set up fresh on the new system — PeakSpitz payments cover card, cash, bank & SEPA.
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Modifier sets and item variations are rebuilt deliberately. Square makes them quick to create, which means it is also quick to accumulate duplicates worth consolidating during the move.
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The floor plan, section layout and KDS device routing are re-created on site; only the underlying items and sales data export cleanly.
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Gift-card and loyalty balances typically do not transfer. Reconcile outstanding balances and carry them as opening entries in accounting rather than assuming they follow the customer record.
Common questions about leaving Square for Restaurants
We use Square for payments too — what happens to that?
Square's all-in-one bundling is a genuine convenience, and it is also the thing that unbundles when you leave. PeakSpitz has built-in payments (card, cash, bank & SEPA); processing is set up fresh and terminals re-pair on site, after which sales, payments and accounting are one flow.
How long does moving off Square usually take?
Square's item and sales data is accessible and exportable, which makes the move tractable. Most businesses are live on PeakSpitz in about a week without consultants — menu rebuilt from the export, opening balances and current stock brought in at cutover.
Do gift cards and loyalty points come across?
Usually not directly. The honest approach is to reconcile outstanding gift-card value and any loyalty liability and carry it as an opening balance in PeakSpitz's accounting, so nothing is lost even though the mechanism changes.
As much help as you want
Do it yourself, or have us map your fields, run the import and reconcile the result with you. Support is a ladder — you start where you are comfortable and step up only where an area needs it.
See the full safe-migration approach →Why people leave Square for Restaurants
PeakSpitz runs the whole business on one AI platform — not a single corner with the rest bolted on — with Spitz AI and unlimited users included. See the difference side by side.
Compare PeakSpitz vs Square for Restaurants →Bring your Square for Restaurants data in safely. Cross over when you are ready.
Send us a sample of your data and we will show you the restored result — no commitment, no risk to your live system.