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Square payments is an affordable easy and immediate way to accept credit card payments it gives small business owners a ton of transaction options at transparent prices and with a full management toolkit that includes a free point of sale app you can accept in-person mobile and remote payments using smartphones Square card readers or Square software for online payments hi I'm Mary King senior staff writer at fit small business and today I'll show you how do you square to process different types of credit card payments we will look at five ways to process payments with square the square app for mobile payments the square app for in-store payments Square online payments Square invoices and recurring payments and the square virtual terminal to accept payments you can find all of this information in written form in the guide on our website which is linked below let's Jump Right In before you can process any credit card payment on Square you need to create your Square account this is free and it takes no time at all you just go to the square website which is linked in the description below or find square in the app store on your mobile device and click get started Square will prompt you to add all of the relevant information including connecting a bank account where your payments will be deposited setting up a square account takes maybe a day mostly because Square needs to verify your identity entering your information actually only takes a few minutes but the verification can take up to 48 Hours personally I have never had to wait more than an hour or two for verification once your account is created you can run cards by entering card information manually or you can attach a card reader to accept swipe tapped or chip payments accepting payments via card reader is better because these payments have lower processing rates than manually entered payments plus they're faster Square will send you your first mag stripe breeder for free or you can buy a tap and chip reader like this one from Square for 49.99 it also comes with a MAG stripe reader the mag stripe breeder just plugs into your phone or tablet's headphone jack really easy the tap and chip reader communicates via Bluetooth so you need to configure it in your POS app by going to settings selecting Hardware then Square card readers your POS app will detect the reader when you hit the reader's power button then you're good to go with our account and card reader setup let's process a mobile payment to start the sale you open the square app on your POS device you can select items from your library or if you don't have an item Library just manually enter a dollar amount then swipe dip or tap the card depending on the type of card reader you have it's that easy and if if you have an iPhone 11 or later it's actually even easier because you can use the tap to pay function and simply tap cards or smartphones directly on your phone to accept card or mobile wallet payments and this is great for mobile businesses or occasional sellers that sell at craft fairs or provide services in clients homes and that's all there is to accepting mobile payments let's talk about accepting in-store payments accepting in-store payments on square is similar to accepting mobile payments the only difference is your Hardware you can operate any of the square POS apps basic square square for retail Square for restaurants or Square appointments on iPads or on Square design Hardware like the Square Terminal the square stand or the square mount we're going with the iPad root today just like using a phone you connect a Square card reader to your point of sale tablet then ring up the sale navigate to the payment screen then tap dip or swipe the card and it's that easy moving on to online payments accepting online payments is simple with square of course every Square account comes with a free Square online store and the very first step to accepting online payments is setting up your website where your customers can make purchases this is really easy from your Square Dashboard you want to click on online and that will take you to your online dashboard and then here on the second option on the left hand side you want to click on website and edit site and if you've entered your business information like your logos and items to sell things like that square will automatically generate a suggested site for you and that's what I did with my little shop we're just going to go with this website once it's set up to your liking you can of course configure all of these things you just hit publish and then it goes live once your site is live customers just go to your site and make their purchases and pay on your website another way to accept credit card payments through square is with square invoices we have a full video on how to set up and use queer invoices that we've linked here if you want more information Square invoices is a great way to accept remote payments from customers when you offer lots of customized services like a catering company or a handyman service and like all square products the Baseline Square invoices subscription is free all you payer squares processing fees on your credit card transactions so with square invoices all you need to do is create an invoice then text or email it to the customer then customers receive the invoice and just like with online payments they complete the payment information themselves and it goes to your bank account you can also use Square invoices to do subscription-based payments or recurring payments you just want to click on recurring series here and create a recurring series invoice um you can also do this from the main invoices dashboard you just hear where it says frequency you switch from one time to recurring and then you can adjust how often a subscription is charged and again it just automatically goes into your bank account moving on to the final payment type we're going to discuss today which is paying via virtual terminal so one last way to accept payments with square is via a desktop computer using squares virtual terminal in addition to credit card payments the virtual terminal allows you also to accept cash checks and square gift cards this is a great fit for office based businesses that need a low-cost way to accept payments you just go to your virtual terminal screen which you can access from your main Square Dashboard and click take a payment you can do a quick charge and add a single amount or you can create an itemized sale by adding items from your library if you want to make something detailed and track your stock then when your check is ready click charge and you can enter payment information manually here or you can attach a Square Terminal wirelessly to accept tap dip and swiped payments and that is five ways to accept payments with square if you use Square to accept payments let us know in the comments tell us what you like tell us what you have challenges with thanks for watching and until next time happy selling