Your own rewards and ordering app, connected to your Square

By the Nomback team, who build ordering apps for independent restaurants. Updated November 6, 2026. Sources

Nomback gives a restaurant on Square its own iPhone and Android app, with a stamp card, push deals and monthly memberships, and every order placed in it lands on the restaurant's Square POS as a pickup order, already paid. The owner connects it by logging into Square and tapping Allow, which takes about 30 seconds. The Square connection is live: on November 6, 2026 we connected a real Square account and sent it a paid order, and it showed up in Square's Orders as a pickup order from Nomback, marked paid. The app is $99 a month and $399 to set up, with no commission and no per-order fee.

What it is for: bringing regulars back

DoorDash and Square Online are built to take an order. Your own app is built for what happens after: your name on a regular's home screen, and a reason for them to come back. Your app does that three ways: a stamp card (buy 5, get one free), push deals you send yourself on a slow night, and monthly memberships like a slice-a-day club that bill on the 1st. Ordering is in the app because it has to be, but the point is the second, third and tenth visit.

For comparison, Square's own loyalty add-on starts around $45 a month per location (UpMenu, May 2026) and works on the receipt and by text, not in an app with your name on it.

Connecting takes three taps

  1. Open nomback.com/square or the link we send you. It opens Square's own login page. Nomback never sees your Square password.
  2. Tap Allow. Square lists exactly what Nomback can do: read your business profile and item library, create and read orders, and record payments.
  3. Land back on nomback.com and see "Connected". Your location is picked automatically, and if you have more than one we set the right one with you.

Then we pull your item library from Square. Categories, items, each size as its own choice with its price, and modifier lists like toppings come across, so nobody retypes the menu. Items priced at the register (variable price) are flagged for you to price by hand.

What an app order looks like on your Square

Here is a test order on Square's sandbox test account (November 6, 2026), as Square stored it:

Source: Nomback Type: Pickup, ASAP, for Rosa, +1 610-555-0134 Note: PAID in the Nomback app | ready 6:30 PM Status: New, paid Cheese Pizza (Large) x 2 + Pepperoni $35.98 well done Garlic Knots (Regular) $6.99 Service fee $0.99 Sales tax $2.58 Tip $5.00 Total $51.54 Paid $51.54 Due $0.00

Items link to your own Square items and modifiers, so your item sales reports count them. Tax goes on as a real Square tax line. The order arrives as a pickup order with the customer's name and phone, so it shows in your Square Orders and on your kitchen display like any other online order, and staff never charge it again at the counter.

Who processes the card

The customer pays in your app through Stripe, into your own Stripe account, at about 2.9% + 30¢. The order is then recorded on your Square as paid, so the money isn't counted twice and your Square doesn't charge the card a second time (how Square records outside payments). Refunds and chargebacks stay between you and your processor; Nomback never holds your customers' money.

What happens when something goes wrong

Every order is checked against Square's own math before it's created: if a price changed on Square since your menu was pulled, the order goes in at the price the customer actually paid instead of failing. An order is never sent twice; if a connection drops halfway, the retry picks up where it stopped. If you remove Nomback under Apps in your Square dashboard, we mark you as needing to reconnect, and app orders keep coming in by tablet and email until you do.

Square access keys last 30 days and are refreshed automatically every week (Square OAuth docs).

Square FAQ

Do I need to retype my menu? No, it comes from your Square item library.

Does it work with Square for Restaurants and the KDS? Orders arrive as pickup orders, which is how Square shows online orders in Orders and on the kitchen display (Square docs).

Do you do delivery on Square? The app takes delivery orders if you have your own drivers; on your Square they arrive as orders for pickup by your driver, with "DELIVERY" in the note.

Can I disconnect? Yes, any time, under Apps in your Square dashboard.

Is the app a real app? Yes, under your restaurant's name in the App Store and Google Play. See Anthony's Pizzeria Rewards, a live one.

Do I need to leave DoorDash?

No. DoorDash is how new customers find you, and that's what its commission pays for. Your app is for the people who already know you: it brings them back more often, and when they order through it you keep the whole ticket minus the card fee.

On Square? Your own app with a stamp card, push deals and memberships is $99 a month and $399 setup, no commission, and app orders land on your Square already paid. See yours in the live demo or connect your Square.

Sources

  1. Square developer docs: create orders
  2. Square developer docs: record external payments
  3. Square developer docs: OAuth and access tokens
  4. UpMenu: Square pricing breakdown, May 2026 (Square Loyalty from $45 a month)
  5. Anthony's Pizzeria Rewards in the App Store

Prices and fees were checked on November 6, 2026. They change, so check the source before you decide.