Square Lets Restaurants Take Orders Directly From ChatGPT and Claude

Square's new ChatGPT app and Claude plugin let diners discover and order from restaurants inside AI assistants, with no marketplace commission and no setup for eligible US sellers.

Square Lets Restaurants Take Orders Directly From ChatGPT and Claude Square's new ChatGPT app and Claude plugin let diners discover and order from restaurants inside AI assistants, with no marketplace commission and no setup for eligible US sellers. Aaron Rafferty July 02, 2026 Key Takeaways Square launched a ChatGPT app and a Claude plugin on July 1 that let diners find restaurants and place orders without leaving the AI assistant. Eligible US Square Online Ordering sellers are opted in automatically, with no setup and no marketplace commission, paying only Square's standard online processing fee. Square framed this as the first step in a wider agentic commerce push that also includes Amazon's Alexa+ and a Google food-ordering protocol. Ordering dinner may no longer mean opening a delivery app. On July 1, Square launched a ChatGPT app and a Claude plugin that let people discover restaurants and place orders directly inside those AI assistants. The restaurant accepts the order through its existing Square setup, and the customer never leaves the chat. The part restaurants will notice is the fee. Square is not charging the marketplace commission that delivery aggregators built their business on, the cut that can reach 30 percent of a check. Merchants pay Square's standard online processing rate instead, around 2.9 percent plus 30 cents on a typical plan. When an order needs delivery, Square uses a white-label courier network that charges a flat fee, often 7 to 10 dollars, rather than a slice of the whole basket. There is no technical lift. Eligible US Square Online Ordering sellers are opted in automatically at no extra cost, and the system reads straight from the live Square catalog, so an AI agent sees current prices, modifiers, and what is actually in s