{"id":3301,"date":"2010-04-08T09:36:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T07:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=3301"},"modified":"2010-04-08T09:36:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T07:36:19","slug":"square-accept-credit-card-payment-with-your-iphone-ipad-or-android-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/08\/square-accept-credit-card-payment-with-your-iphone-ipad-or-android-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"square: accept credit card payments with your iPhone, iPad or Android phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.norai.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Features-Square-20100408-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3302\" title=\"Features - Square (20100408)\" src=\"https:\/\/cloud.norai.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Features-Square-20100408-1-65x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"65\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Square is a a platform for iPhones, iPad (they already have a gorgeous app) and Android phones and laptops (in the future) that with a free credit card reader plugged into the headphones jack will allow to accept payments with credit cards. It is super nice app.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a business but if I would, I wouldn&#8217;t buy a register machine, just an iPad. It will even create a community allowing to see the photos of who buys, etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at their <a href=\"https:\/\/squareup.com\/features\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> it is better to understand what it is about.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2009, Jim McKelvey wasn\u2019t able to sell a piece of his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirddegreeglassfactory.com\/\">glass art<\/a> because he couldn\u2019t accept a credit card as payment. Even though a majority of payments has moved to plastic cards, accepting payments from cards is still difficult, requiring long applications, expensive hardware, and an overly complex experience. Square was born a few days later right next to the old\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustreas.gov\/offices\/management\/curator\/exhibitions\/mintbldgs\/sanfrancisco.shtml\">San Francisco US Mint<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today the Square team is focused on bringing immediacy, transparency, and approachability to the world of payments: an inherently social interaction each of us participates in daily. We\u2019re starting with a limited beta and rolling out to everyone in early 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Square is a a platform for iPhones, iPad (they already have a gorgeous app) and Android phones and laptops (in the future) that with a free credit card reader plugged into the headphones jack will allow to accept payments with credit cards. It is super nice app. I don&#8217;t have a business but if I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[146,7],"class_list":["post-3301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-url","tag-ipad","tag-iphone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}