Supermax Point of Sale (POS) Square In-Person Payment

For a Advanced Point of Sale (POS) solution tailored for Native Windows Desktop systems, as well as Android Tablets and Mobile devices, please explore CapXLane Point of Sale.

Supermax POS Square In-person payment extension is an add-on of the Supermax point of Sale Module. To use this module, you must already have purchased and installed Supermax Point of Sale (POS).

Square, Inc. is an American financial service, merchant services aggregator, and mobile payment company. The company markets software and hardware payments products and has expanded into small business services. The Square Reader accepts card payments by connecting to a mobile device's audio jack. The original version consisted of a simple read head directly wired to a 3.5 mm audio jack, through which unencrypted, analog card information was fed to smartphones for amplification and digitization. Square's APIs, hardware, and software are compliant with the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and EMV regulations

By using the Supermax POS Square in-person payment extension, POS cashiers can open the Square Point of Sale application to process in-person payments using Square hardware like Square Readers. Square takes on the burden of staying PCI compliant. No checklists, assessments, or audits are required. The Square Point of Sale API is available for mobile web applications so Supermax makes it possible for the store owner to accept in-person card payments etc.

For more detail please check on Square website: Square In-person Point of Sale API

Account & Pricing

A Separate Square account is required prior to the installation to use The Square In-person Payment Extension. Square has different payment chargers for his application and devices. So, please visit the Square Website or contact Square Team

Security & PCI Compliance

All the payment related processes like card swiping, card processing, transactions are done in Square point of sale application and Square's APIs, hardware, and software are compliant with the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and EMV regulations. Square takes on the burden of staying PCI compliant. No checklists, assessments, or audits are required. For more information please visit the Square Website or contact Square Team

Important Note:- 

• Supermax POS terminal only sends the request to the Square Point of sale app through square in-built API to accept payment on square point of sale devices.
•  Supermax POS doesn't save any payment related sensitive data such as customer entered data, customer payment information for the payment to the Magento server or database. 

Please take a moment to explore our other applications:

CapXLane Mobile Application

CapXLane Point of Sale (POS)

Key Features

• It allows accepting payments by using square card reader devices.
• By connecting Square's point of sale, mobile app customers can use square in-build payment methods like Apple Pay, Square Gift Cards, etc.
• Also, the POS cashier can record cash transactions in the square point of sale App.
• POS just initiates the payment process in the POS terminal and it automatically connects to the square point of sale app and processes the payment and sends a response to the Supermax POS terminal.

What is Square Point of Sale?

According to Square, Square Point of Sale is the free Android and IOS point-of-sale (POS) app that gives you everything you need to take payments and run your business. Accept chip and PIN cards, contactless cards, and mobile payments with a Square Reader. Get the latest payment processing features for the merchant terminal with regular app updates.

• Accept Visa, MasterCard, and American Express
• Process payments right on your device
• Record payments made with cash, gift cards, and other forms of tender
• Connect your POS system to a receipt printer, kitchen ticket printer, barcode scanner, and cash drawer

For more information please visit the Square Website or contact Square Team

How does Supermax work with Square Point of Sale and Square Readers?

The following example process flow shows how Supermax POS terminal interacts with the Square Point of Sale API:

• Supermax determines the total amount to charge a customer.
• Supermax packages the transaction information and sends it in a request to the Square Point of Sale application.
• The mobile device running Supermax POS Terminal in the browser automatically opens the Square Point of Sale application which is installed on that mobile device.
• The charge amount is prepopulated in the Square Point of Sale application based on the provided transaction information.
• The transaction is completed with the Square Point of Sale application checkout flow.
• The Square Point of Sale application sends completed transaction information to the Supermax POS terminal through the callback process. The device reactivates the Supermax to receive and complete the order process.

Important Note

Supermax is a web browser-based POS application so it connects to the Square point of sale API(mobile web app) which means Supermax must be run on either Android or IOS devices chrome browser on which Square's point of sale application is pre-installed and linked with square readers.

Square Point of Sale application Installation

For Android: Play Store
For IOS: Apple App Store

Demo

As Square point of sale API only supports the production environment so, the demo link will be provided to the interested customer after the request. Please follow the below steps for demo links.

Step1: Go to the square developer site and create a developer account. Note: Email which you have used for developer account the same must be used to login into square point of sale native application.

Step2: Go to the Developer Dashboard and create an application. And you can see the Production Application ID.

Step3: Go to point of sale API section on the left side navigation and In the Web section, enter your Web Callback URL as https://mgpossquare.anyhowinfo.com/checkout/square-callback

Step4: Now create a ticket or mail us on support@anyhowinfo.com with these details.

• Square Application ID
• Currency Name and code which you have set for the transaction for square.

Support Policy

Support Time

Monday - Friday

9:30 to 18:30

GMT +5:30 Time Zone

• You get free 3 months of technical support included
• You can buy 6 or 12 months extended support agreement
• For issues, please create a ticket or send an email to support@anyhowinfo.com

Please always provide a detailed problem description with admin access to the store and FTP.

All 3 points in the same order:

• Store Admin Details
• FTP Account Details
• Detailed Problem Description

Remember to backup files and database before, because sometimes some settings can be changed. After backup please don’t change anything in store. 

Extension support includes:

• Availability of the agent to answer questions only extension-related
• Answering technical questions about item’s features
• Assistance with reported bugs and issues

However, Extension support does not include

• Free Customization services
• Installation services
• Updation Services
• web hosting or server configuration/services

NOTE- Extension Purchase doesn't include the free installation service. But installation guide and steps in details come with the extension zip, you can go through the readme.MD file and can do the installation easily. If you want to install the extension by us then you need to avail the paid installation service which needs to be paid separately. Please create a ticket or mail us on support@anyhowinfo.com for installation or customization(paid service).

NOTE- In order to fix your issues we will need your web store admin + FTP credentials. Once we finish up the work you can change your credentials.