It's funny that they benchmark their in-store numbers vs Square, but decline to benchmark anything else.

for in-person, I would guess a regular old merchant account would be a better idea than Paypal, Square, or Stripe. So many transactions are debit cards, which are dirt cheap if you just use a normal merchant account. Way cheaper than Stripe, Paypal, Square, etc.

Whereas if all your payments are done through Square, this all goes away. It's not surprising to me an increasing number of businesses— especially really small ones like food trucks— are just doing away with it.

Square's offline payments mode has been unreliable historically. With some Square outages, customers have been logged out, and then unable to enter offline mode to accept credit cards.

You record that in Square because it's your only CC transaction vendor.

I know merchants using Square and report that they’re charged the same fee for debit and credit cards, no discounted rate.

you have to have them all because one or more of them will drop you after someone rolls out a new poorly tested fraud abuse whatever algorithm.

Square (my bank) basically said they cant do anything about it since i autho the payment.

I was really surprised how easy it was to set up Square to simply receive tap-to-pay payments on my phone. I ran an incredibly busy after-school cake sale, maybe 100 transactions in twenty minutes? It was pretty great.

She has a square account and store. I’m trying to set up inventory tracking for her.

now Square, have systematically denied or closed accounts of small businesses, artists and independent contractors whose business happens to be about sex.

I d use the time to build a card acceptance flow using Square (their API is like Stripe s)... Then I had until the first of the next month to build the system to total up their bill (based on usage) and charge the card on file using the rest of Square.

I think that Square is an exceptional business enabled by a novel piece of hardware, their headphone jack card reader. It would seem - then, that the card reader and payment service could actually be seen as a platform play.

IMO if you re a small business, the pricing is fair. Yes, competition may be better cheaper but keep in mind that Square is trying to create an entire platform here.

Order status is already handled by existing invoicing systems (i.e., Square).

For the first couple of customers just use Square Stripe and do manual billing and invoicing.

Their Stripe Square PayPal integration is pretty ridiculous... just providing a buggy interface and subpar integration with existing services.

I have a good friend who runs a small shop (> $50k/year) and she loves square. Got them up and running painlessly, their iPad is their cash register / POS system, and she pays a manageable amount to Square for it.

Square works very, very well for P2P transactions. People at farmers markets, flea markets, garage sales... will find great value. But for businesses, it is sincerely lacking.

Square is still our preferred payment processor for credit card transactions. I especially appreciate how they transfer money into our bank account within 24 hours.