Clover Software Service Plans

Clover Plans Overview

Clover offers five plans, each of which serves different sets of Clover equipment. With all plans, you can track sales from anywhere, on a computer or using your smartphone and all plans include cloud backup. All five payment plans come with the ability to accept magstripe, EMV chip, and NFC transactions, as well as recording cash and check sales. (You’ll need compatible Clover hardware to accept EMV/NFC transactions and checks. You may also want to connect an optional cash drawer if you accept cash.)

The plans also include basic employee management for tracking shifts and setting role permissions so that employees can only access the functions necessary to complete their jobs. Each plan comes with 24/7 customer service.

The plans are:

• Payments: Smart, cloud-based payments, employee and customer management on one device
• Essentials: All the features of Payments, plus inventory and order management on one device, and can act as a cash register replacement
• Register: All the features of Payments and Essentials, plus full-featured POS,  with enhanced inventory and order management
• Counter Service Restaurant: Full-featured POS designed for counter service restaurants with tools to engage guests while maximizing efficiency and increasing accuracy
• Table Service Restaurant: All in one POS specifically for table service restaurants that drives revenue by optimizing your guest’s experience across ordering, fulfilling, and paying at the table

Essentials

Essentials is Clover’s ‘cash register replacement’ plan. It can replace your old low-tech cash register while providing additional functions like basic inventory and order management. The plan is available for Mini, Flex and Flex Pocket, and includes all of the features of Payments as well as additional functions.

The plan includes basic inventory management (item level entry and the ability to set and manage categories) but does not allow for more detailed inventory tracking. It also supports connecting an optional handheld barcode scanner if you prefer to scan barcodes to ring up customers. It does not support weight scales for selling items by weight, such as produce or frozen yogurt.

While Essentials can access the Clover App Market, app selection is more limited than with the full Register plan.

Choose Essentials if: You’re new to using a POS system and don’t want the expense of all the advanced features, or if you’re familiar with POS systems and just want basic inventory management capabilities along with payment acceptance.

Counter Service Restaurant

Counter Service Restaurant is Clover’s full-featured POS designed for counter service restaurants with tools to engage guests while maximizing efficiency and increasing accuracy. It’s available for Mini, Flex, and Station and boasts full access to the hundreds of apps in Clover’s App Market. Counter Service Restaurant is designed for food service where customers order independently of food delivery, and allows you to move lines faster, make ordering easier, satisfy customer requests, and improve your overall speed of service. You can take orders quickly, accept payments easily and run your business efficiently with a powerful POS, counter‑optimized device and robust business management tools.

With Counter Service Restaurant, you can let guests handle payments, and set up pre-set tip amounts and applicable tax rates so guests can handle payments while you focus on their orders.

Choose Counter Service Restaurant if: You want a full-featured POS system or have more advanced needs, particularly in a location where customers order and pay at one station, and receive food elsewhere. Counter Service Restaurant is also a good choice if you plan to customize your POS system using third-party apps.