---
name: Square
domain: squareup.com
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: online payment acceptance
descGrounded: 0.5
---

# Square

A payment-processing platform that sells point-of-sale hardware and software for businesses to take payments, manage orders, and run operations.

**Route:** surfaced by the online payment acceptance lane's de-branded queries → competitor to stripe.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Offers the same payment-acceptance and business-management capabilities to the same buyer—any business needing to take payments and manage operations—that would shortlist the anchor.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> Take payments

> Power your entire business

> Point of sale

**Edges:**

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- competitor [[unibee-dev]]
- competitor [[checkoutpage-com]]
- competitor [[checkoutchamp-com]]
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- competitor [[every-io]]
- competitor [[acceptcreditcardsus-com]]
- competitor [[merchantsbancard-com]]
- competitor [[ikajo-com]]
- competitor [[tailoredpay-com]]
- competitor [[connectpay-com]]
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- competitor [[whop-com]]
- competitor [[assembly-com]]
- competitor [[rippling-com]]
- competitor [[memberful-com]]
- competitor [[ryftpay-com]]
- competitor [[wooshpay-com]]
- competitor [[statrys-com]]
- competitor [[ofx-com]]
- competitor [[ebrands-com]]
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