Kwickly Answers vs. Square: Online Booking, Phone Answering, Customer List and Staff Schedule

What Square does, and what Kwickly Answers adds

Square's pricing page (read 1 Oct 2026) lists three plans, Free, Plus and Premium, each priced per location, with card processing fees on payments taken. Online booking, a customer directory and text or email appointment reminders appear on all three. Shift scheduling with time off and trades, and a dedicated business phone number that callers can text or call to leave a voicemail, start on Plus. For booking by itself, see Kwickly Answers vs. Square Appointments.

Kwickly Answers puts the four jobs in one account. The Online booking plan holds a booking page that offers times worked out from your hours and how long each service takes, a calendar and a customer list that grows with each booking. A phone plan adds an AI assistant on the calls you forward: you choose whether it books directly or takes a message, which is the default, and urgent calls are flagged to you by email.

Building, printing and publishing your staff schedule is free on every plan; each person's own schedule link, for time off and swaps, is the Team add-on, on any plan, at $19.99 a month for up to 15 people. Prices follow bookings or minutes rather than locations, so the bill tracks the work you take in and the calls you get.

How do the plans compare?

Square's Plus plan is $49 a month per location, and Kwickly Answers' Starter phone plan is $129.99 a month for 350 minutes, while its Online booking plan starts at $14.99 a month for 100 bookings.

See Kwickly Answers' full published pricing. Prices change, so confirm Square's current price on its own site before you decide.

Is Kwickly Answers a Square alternative?

Yes, for four jobs a local service business often runs on separate tools: online booking, phone answering, a customer list and a staff schedule. Square is a payments and point-of-sale platform with booking, a customer directory and shift scheduling around it, priced per location. Kwickly Answers is priced by bookings or minutes and adds an AI assistant that answers your calls. Payments, point of sale, invoices and inventory are not part of this comparison.

How does Square's per-location pricing compare with Kwickly Answers' plans?

Square charges per location and Kwickly Answers charges by bookings, minutes and a flat Team add-on, so the gap depends on which jobs you need. All figures are monthly, read on 1 Oct 2026, for one location, and leave out card processing fees and tax.

Booking and a customer list: Square Free is $0 (the booking site and Customer Directory are listed on Free, with card fees when you take a payment), and the Kwickly Answers Online booking plan is $14.99 for 100 bookings.

Booking, a customer list and a schedule with time off and swaps: Square Plus is $49 per location. Kwickly Answers' Online booking plan is $14.99 plus the Team add-on at $19.99, which is $34.98. Building, printing and publishing a schedule without Team is free on every plan.

The same with the phone answered: Kwickly Answers Starter (Essential level, 350 minutes) is $129.99 plus Team at $19.99, which is $149.98, and extra minutes are $0.50 each by the second. Square lists a dedicated number with voicemail on Plus, which is a different service from an assistant that answers calls, and a second Square location adds $49 more on Plus.

Does Kwickly Answers work if I just need online booking?

Yes, Kwickly Answers works if online booking is all you need. The Online booking plan is a booking page, a calendar and a customer list at $14.99 a month for 100 bookings, $24.99 for 300 or $44.99 for 1,000, with no phone assistant or web page to pay for and no setup fee. Square's pricing page lists online booking on its Free plan at $0 a month per location, with card processing fees when you take a payment.

Can Kwickly Answers replace Square?

Yes, for the four jobs on this page: the booking page and calendar, the phone assistant on a phone plan, the customer list and the schedule screen. Square's pages also list appointment deposits and no-show fees, which Kwickly Answers does not take at booking, and cover payments, point of sale, invoices and inventory, which this page leaves out, so check what you use Square for beyond booking, calls, customers and staff before you move any part of it.

Square or Kwickly Answers for a local service business?

Square puts booking, a customer directory and shifts beside card payments at the till, priced per location. Kwickly Answers is built for a local service business that wants its phone answered and its bookings, customers and schedule in one account, priced by the work you take in. Run your own bookings and minutes through both pricing pages before you choose.

Which Square features are built, planned or not part of Kwickly Answers today?

• Built, not switched on yet: a connection to Square, and simple invoices that your customers pay online into your own Stripe account, with reminder emails on day 3 and day 7, where Square's pages list invoices; and deposits and a card saved at booking, with no-show and late-cancel fees charged only when you choose to, paid into your own Stripe account, where Square's pages list appointment deposits and no-show fees.
• What Kwickly Answers does today: online booking with a calendar and customer list from $14.99 a month, a phone plan from $129.99 whose assistant answers your forwarded calls, and a staff schedule you build, print and publish at no charge on every plan.

Source: squareup.com/us/en/pricing, read October 1, 2026

Unhappy with Square? What switching to Kwickly Answers looks like

Switching from Square to Kwickly Answers means setting up the four jobs in your portal: your hours and services, a booking link and QR code for each person and each service, your staff under Calendar, then Who is working, then + Add staff member, and, on a phone plan, forwarding your business line to your Kwickly Answers number.

Square's pricing page (squareup.com/us/en/pricing, read 1 Oct 2026) lists Free, Plus and Premium at $0, $49 and $149 a month per location and lists shift scheduling with time off and trades on Plus and Premium but not on Free, and its Customer Directory page says a customer profile is created automatically when you make a sale. Source: squareup.com/us/en/pricing, squareup.com/us/en/point-of-sale/features/customer-directory, read October 1, 2026

Your customers are added one at a time in your portal, and the list also grows with each booking. Plans renew automatically each month until you cancel, and you can cancel at any time; your service continues until the end of the period you have already paid for, and Kwickly Answers prices by bookings or minutes rather than by location.

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Why choose Kwickly Answers instead of Square?

• An AI assistant answers the calls you forward on every phone plan, from $129.99 a month for 350 minutes; you choose whether it books directly or takes a message, and urgent calls reach you by email.
• A bill that follows the work, not the number of locations: $14.99, $24.99 or $44.99 a month for 100, 300 or 1,000 bookings, and minutes counted by the second on phone plans.
• A booking page for a service business: customers see times that fit your hours and each service's length, and an emergency service asks them to call you now.
• A schedule screen on every plan; when each person needs their own link, the Team add-on, on any plan, is $19.99 a month for up to 15 people.

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Sources and last verified date

Last verified: 2026-10-01. Every fact about Square on this page was read from its own pages, listed here with the date each was read. What this page says about Kwickly Answers was last updated 2026-10-13.

• squareup.com/us/en/pricing, read October 1, 2026
• squareup.com/us/en/appointments/pricing, read October 1, 2026
• squareup.com/us/en/staff/shifts, read October 1, 2026
• squareup.com/us/en/point-of-sale/features/customer-directory, read October 1, 2026
• squareup.com/us/en/messages, read October 1, 2026

Square is a trademark of its owner. Kwickly Answers isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Square. Square's prices are from its public page on October 1, 2026.