Why I switched from Square POS to ChowNow

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Sharing my experience in case it helps others.

We recently made some changes to our setup

Has anyone else seen this?

Amanda Wright 👑 Master

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Nancy Jenkins

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Nov 23, 2025

Make sure you're on the latest version. That fixed it for us.

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Ashley Graham

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Nov 25, 2025

I've been using Square for Restaurants for 9 months and it has been working well for us

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Jerry Rivera

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208 posts

Nov 25, 2025

We had the same issue. What worked for us was restarting the terminal

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Sandra Nguyen

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207 posts

Nov 25, 2025

We had the same issue. What worked for us was reconfiguring the network settings

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Brenda Johnson

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210 posts

Nov 26, 2025

For retail, I'd recommend considering looking at multiple options

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Tiffany Adams

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205 posts

Nov 26, 2025

Agreed with the above. Also worth mentioning you should also check the settings

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Harold Nguyen

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221 posts

Nov 26, 2025

Great question! In my experience with NCR Silver, it has been working well for us

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Susan Collins

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Nov 27, 2025

Had the same problem, support was knowledgeable when I contacted them.

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Jack Henderson

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Nov 27, 2025

We had the same issue. What worked for us was reinstalling the app

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Raymond Henderson

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191 posts

Nov 27, 2025

+1 to this. We've seen similar results.

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Stephanie Thompson

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Nov 27, 2025

We had the same issue. What worked for us was reconfiguring the network settings

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Ann Zhang

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Nov 28, 2025

Make sure you're on the latest version. That fixed it for us.

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