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What Is Square Payments?
Accept every way your customers want to pay with Square Payments. Get a free magstripe reader to swipe credit cards anywhere. Take chip cards and NFC payments with Square Reader for contactless and chip. With Squares credit card processing, you can accept all major cards and get deposits as fast as the next business day. We offer chargeback protection, fraud detection, account takeover protection, and more, so you can focus on your customers. Its free to sign up and fast to get set up.
Who Uses Square Payments?
From a one-person shop just starting out, to an enterprise scaling their operations, Square works for every type of business.
Where can Square Payments be deployed?
About the vendor
- Square
- Located in San Francisco, US
- Founded in 2009
Square Payments support
- Phone Support
- Chat
Languages
English, French, Japanese, Spanish
Square Payments pricing
Starting Price:
- No free trial
- Yes, has free version
Square Payments has a free version and does not offer a free trial.
Pricing plans get a free trialAbout the vendor
- Square
- Located in San Francisco, US
- Founded in 2009
Square Payments support
- Phone Support
- Chat
Languages
English, French, Japanese, Spanish
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Features of Square Payments
Alternatives to Square Payments
Reviews of Square Payments
Ideal of gift card side business
Comments: Overall experience was very easy, refund and discount policy made simple with square payment's gift card.
Pros:
I loved Square Payments because it's very simple and straight forward to setup the online Gift card shop. They also offer hard card for in-person usage at your kiosks and payment centers. This is very useful for small businesses to offer complimentary give-back items to attendees, participants and volunteers.
Cons:
No cons as such, but need top make upfront payment for physical cards :)
simplify your payments
Comments: Square payment is secure and fast, making it very easy to receive payments. Also, it is linked with many accounting tools
Pros:
It is really quite simple and is very easy to set up, especially with all the other accounting tools that are available to it
Cons:
I have to say that the fees are rather high and can grow up quickly enough based on the volume
Massive Incompetence
Comments: God awful and excessively costly with their constant service fallovers and enabling thieves to steal from you.
Pros:
Nothing, they have no accountability, no decency, and no competency whatsoever. Fools and clowns.
Cons:
Fraudulent chargeback by a mentally challenged thief that posted photos of his received good publicly. Provided that to Square to appeal the illegal chargeback, and they failed! It couldn't have been easier to win, yet they force you to let them respond on your behalf and screw it up majorly, then refuse to identify the thief so you can fix it in civil court. Disgusting incompetence with no accountability. Don't end up stuck with them like me because of hardware investments, they are beyond awful and will lose your money time and time again.
Square Payments is easy to set up and allows you to capture payment multiple ways!
Comments: We've used Square Payments for the last 4 years and during that time, Square has made a ton of updates that improve the software. For example, we've used their Payment Link option to collect payment from clients retroactively in situations where their card was declined or the wifi was down at the time of service.
Pros:
Square Payments is easy to set up and begin accepting payments for small businesses. It has integration with our accounting software so we can easily categorize payments as they occur and offers great features like transaction reports to stay on top of your money.
Cons:
Square payments does take a fee for each transaction but that is the norm.
Alternatives Considered: PayPal, Stripe and Squarespace
Reasons for Switching to Square Payments: Better POS solutions & compatibility with Square Appointments.
Square Payments: Good option for small bussiness
Comments: My overall experience with square payments is a great because it is good option for small size business
Pros:
There is no subscription required for basic uses
Cons:
Support is not available for 24/7 and with this sometimes difficult to contact
