Square KDS Beta

About Square KDS Beta

Square KDS allows busy restaurants with complex kitchen operations to view orders, mark status, and prepare food quickly and accurately, from one place. Whether you are a single-location or a multi-location business, Squares KDS delivers the sophisticated technology you need with the simplicity every restaurateur craves.

With Square KDS, you can:
Run your kitchen more efficiently in hot, greasy, busy, loud environments.
Display order tickets on a single screen, so your prep and expo lines can prepare items quickly, accurately, and efficiently.
Organize your tickets with a flexible layout based on your kitchen operations and staff members’ preferences.
Streamline communication from the kitchen so customers and partners always know when an order is ready

Learn more about Square KDS by watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S43k6JsBYDs

Features Include:
Show an easy-to-read, fast-to-scan order ticket format to prep stations and expediters
Organize dine-in and takeout orders in one place, without work
Pull in orders — automatically — from third-party marketplaces
Mark items and orders as “Complete” with a simple tap
Automatically text diners when pickup orders are marked as complete
See item priority based on timers you decide on (i.e. ticket turns yellow after 5 minutes, and red after 10 minutes)
Report on real-time kitchen speed from anywhere (great for managers)
See # of tickets and average completion time by device
Quickly filter your order list by open versus completed tickets
Edit ticket size and # tickets that show per page
Recall tickets by order or individual item
86 items directly from KDS
Prioritize tickets to the front of the queue
See how many of your popular items need to be prepped at any given time
Print orders on-demand from your KDS screen in one quick tap

Restaurants choose Square’s KDS for its durability, simple user interface, different screen size options, affordability, and reliable connection.

Square Android KDS is compatible on the following devices:
Microtouch 22”
Microtouch 15”
Elo 22”
Elo 15”
Samsung Galaxy Tab
Lenovo M10

Note: If you choose to use the Square KDS app on a device not listed above, we cannot guarantee the quality of how Square KDS will appear on your device.


This product is best fit for QSR and full-service restaurants with high-volume ordering that require order details to be sent to a kitchen or prep area. Operators also have control over how their orders display on the screen — tailoring the appearance to their business needs from easy-to-use dashboard settings. Square KDS users may choose to have multiple different KDS systems in their kitchen, routing orders and items to specific prep stations.

Included with Square KDS is reporting functionality that shows order prep speed by station and location for your business.