Clover Canada Review 2025
Clover Canada POS Plans & Pricing
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Clover Canada POS's Offerings
Clover has four POS plans. They are labelled as ‘Essentials, ‘Register,’ ‘Counter Service Restaurant,’ and ‘Table Service Restaurant.’
Customer Support
Clover offers the extensive range of technical support options that you would expect from a company of its size. Restaurants with late opening hours needn’t worry about losing access to the support team, as it’s fully 24/7 across phone, email and live chat.
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Community Forums
There is a large and very active community forum available for Clover POS. There are plenty of new posts and threads each day, and lots of discussions around advanced usage and software integrations.
Blog
Clover provides a good quality blog called “The Green.” As well as blog posts there is some video content, and there’s plenty of industry news and advice, as well as some articles showcasing Clover features and hardware.
Features & Functionality
Best For
Gift Cards
With options for both physical gift cards and electronic alternatives, Clover offers a selection of ways to sell gift cards or reward customers with them. You can migrate existing gift card programs to Clover, and send electronic gift cards directly to customers’ mobile devices.
Hardware Requirements
Clover provides its own proprietary POS hardware. The company offers four hardware packages to go with the monthly software fee. These are Station Duo, Station Solo, Mini, and Flex. However, the POS software can launch from any device, such as a Mac, Windows, Android, and iOS.
Most businesses will need a hardware package to get started with Clover. However, you don’t require hardware if all that’s needed is a virtual terminal for processing transactions. Clover also supports several accessories for customizing your POS system. Things like a kitchen printer, weight scale, barcode scanner, label printer, ordering kiosk, and kitchen display system.
General Features
Online Ordering
Clover has clearly looked into what businesses need in this new age of social distancing. For example, customers can order takeaway food online and collect it with contactless payment. There’s also “scan to order,” so that the restaurant customer who is eating in can use a QR-code-based system to order at their tables with no need for waiting on staff interaction.
Virtual Terminal
Clover’s software-first approach means that even businesses who’ve chosen POS hardware can process transactions without it. Clover users can log on to the cloud-based dashboard from any device, access the POS system and even process keyed transactions directly.
Staff Management Features
Clover is strong on the human resources side, with features to support everything from time logging to payroll. The software handles day-to-day admin tasks like managing tipping and commission. Solid reporting also helps management to see which staff are excelling and who could use some extra support.
Integrations & Add-Ons
Clover boasts one of the biggest app marketplaces of any commercial POS system. In many cases, you have the option of using Clover’s own features – for things like payment processing or customer loyalty – or hooking into a third-party service of your choice.
Notable integrations include Nav, for customer credit scoring, QuickBooks synchronization, and a whole host of different apps to support food delivery businesses.
Hardware & Software
Flexible Hardware Choices
Clover offers solutions at every end of the spectrum, from a simple, economical option running solely on a mobile device, to a heavyweight hardware POS system with multiple terminals and supplementary hardware.
While the huge range of options makes navigating Clover’s solutions initially intimidating, the flexibility means you can accommodate all kinds of business setups. For example, a restaurant can combine a fixed POS handling phone orders, with table-side orders taken using an extra “Flex” terminal.
Ease Of Use:
Ironically, the hardest part of using Clover is probably specifying the system and working out the selection of hardware and add-ons you need. The good news is that day-to-day usage is a breeze. Clover scores highly on ease-of-use and the user interface is a pleasure to interact with.
The customer management features shine through as well, making it straightforward to recognize returning customers and build their loyalty.
Verdict:
Clover is a giant of a POS system in many ways. It’s the most favored POS system for several big names, and it also offered to customers by a host of resellers and third-parties. This can make navigating the pricing and the myriad options slightly challenging, but it’s worth the required effort.
The system itself is both flexible and easy to use – not an easy balance to strike. Thanks to a huge library of integrations it’s also hugely customizable. As you will quickly tell from the community forum, this is a system that all kinds of companies have done very clever things with.
The hardware itself is relatively pricey, but it shows in its quality and robustness. Clover means business, and has the ability to create a very professional impression of yours.
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