Square Online for your bakery, or Pragte?
Choose Square Online if you sell from a counter or take orders ahead for pickup and delivery: it takes payments, keeps stock with your till, and has a free plan. Choose Pragte if you make to order: a form that asks for the date, servings, flavours and allergies in one go, a holiday menu on any plan, and your own design, without payments or ordering ahead.
Pragte is independent and not affiliated with Square Online.
Square Online and Pragte, side by side
Square Online’s side as its own pages describe it, checked October 2026. Features and prices change, so check them there too.
| What | Square Online | Pragte |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | A square.site address with a Square banner in the footer | A pragte.site address with a small Made with Pragte badge, one live site at a time |
| With your own domain | Square Plus, $49 a month per location, or Premium at $149 | $49.99 once for 12 months, or $29.99 for 3 months. No monthly fee |
| Ordering ahead | Pickup and local delivery on every plan, with prep time, how far ahead and days you’re closed | None: order requests that you confirm yourself |
| Payments | Card payments online: 3.3% plus 30¢ on Free, 2.9% plus 30¢ on Plus and Premium | None: send an invoice or a payment link |
| Custom cake orders | A message on an item (up to 150 characters), options that change the price, and a Custom quote form | An order form with your own questions: the date, servings, flavours, allergies, pickup or delivery See how |
| Holiday menus | Preorders with set dates, and item changes scheduled ahead, on Plus and Premium | A holiday version of the site with its own pages, switching on its date every year, on any plan See how |
| Stock | Stock counts shared with Square Point of Sale | None |
| Design | Sections with preset styles; your own fonts on Plus and Premium. Square’s help describes no separate phone layout | A free canvas, and a phone layout you arrange yourself |
| Forms | Contact forms such as a catering request or a custom quote, sent to your email and Square’s inbox | Submissions in one list you can download, and an email for each on a paid plan |
| Reviews | Item reviews, asked for by email, on Plus and Premium | Reviews you add yourself |
Sources: plans, the footer banner, pickup, preorders, item modifiers, scheduled item updates, contact forms, item reviews, inventory, fonts.
Why Pragte
- The custom order, asked in full
- Date, servings, flavours, allergies, pickup or delivery and budget, in one form, instead of an item with a 150-character message. See how
- A holiday menu on any plan
- Your holiday pre-orders as their own version of the site, switching on their date each year, free or paid. See how
- Your design, on a phone too
- A free canvas for the bakes, and a phone layout you arrange yourself.
- Paid once a year
- Free, or $49.99 for 12 months with your own domain, against $588 a year for Square Plus.
Why Square Online
- Ordering ahead for pickup and delivery, with prep times and days you’re closed.
- Card payments on every plan.
- Stock shared with Square Point of Sale, for a bakery with a counter.
- Preorders with dates, and item reviews, on Plus and Premium.
- One system for the till and the website.
Square Online or Pragte, answered
Is Pragte part of Square?
No. Pragte is an independent website builder and is not affiliated with Square.
Can Pragte take payments like Square?
No. Pragte takes order requests, and you confirm each one with an invoice or a payment link from your own tools.
Which costs less?
Square’s Free plan costs nothing a month but 3.3% plus 30¢ on each online card payment, and a domain of your own needs Plus at $49 a month per location. Pragte is free, or $49.99 once for 12 months, without payments.
Can I use both?
Yes. Keep Square for everyday pickup orders and the till, and link to your Square ordering page from a button on a Pragte site that takes the custom orders.
Can I move my Square site to Pragte?
Not by importing it. Show the AI in Pragte’s editor a screenshot of each page and it rebuilds it as a design you can edit. That costs a few AI credits, and every account starts with 100.
More about bakery websites on Pragte: which bakeries it suits, and the custom order form, field by field.
Your orders, on a site that looks like your bakes.
Pragte is in early access. Leave your email and tell us what you make, and we will help you set it up.