We use it for local customers at our print shop sometimes, it works well...The only thing that bugs me is if its a large amount (like over $500) it splits the deposits up and does the second half the next month.

Any European solution?

Some Square alternatives:

http://gopayment.com/

http://www.propay.com/

HillmanB said:We use it for local customers at our print shop sometimes, it works well...The only thing that bugs me is if its a large amount (like over $500) it splits the deposits up and does the second half the next month.

I think they lifted the max amount that can be deposited recently? Is that not true?

(square) it's great for buying/selling drugs.

^ lol

Thanks for the replies. Just applied for the Square one and should get it in a few days!

I don't have any personal experience with square but I know a lot of the vendors at this years NYCC use them and none of them had any problems taking my money lol.

It's definitely a handy system if your selling merch out of a booth at an event.

David Merritt said:

HillmanB said:We use it for local customers at our print shop sometimes, it works well...The only thing that bugs me is if its a large amount (like over $500) it splits the deposits up and does the second half the next month.

I think they lifted the max amount that can be deposited recently? Is that not true?

Im not sure, we haven't used it super recently...Ill check into it because most of our transactions are larger.

They sorted a UK version or are there any alternative UK versions yet?
I know that Square was USA only last time this type of thread was up.

HillmanB said:

David Merritt said:

HillmanB said:We use it for local customers at our print shop sometimes, it works well...The only thing that bugs me is if its a large amount (like over $500) it splits the deposits up and does the second half the next month.

I think they lifted the max amount that can be deposited recently? Is that not true?

Im not sure, we haven't used it super recently...Ill check into it because most of our transactions are larger.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/10/square-ditches-1-000-per-week-limits-has-800-000-merchants-pro/

I don't know if this affects the amount of the individual transactions.

Sweet, it looks like they just changed that this month...good stuff.

Another cool feature is you can collect credit card info via phone and charge customers that way. Thats not really helpful for shirt brands but it is for designers or printers.

However I think the fee is higher if you do it that way...unless they recently changed that as well.

Colemadethis said:(square) it's great for buying/selling drugs.

Still waiting for it to come to Canada for this very reason.

We use Square and have not seen the issue with limits on deposits. It is mostly good. The issues we've had with it:

- Obviously if you are in an area with weak signal Square won't work well. We had this issue last weekend at the Run For Your Lives Zombie 5k, it was about an hour outside Phila/Baltimore and we only had 1 or 2 bars on our phones. It made Square basically impossible to use.

- If you are in an area where a lot of phone use is going on, it won't work well. We sold at Renegade Chicago and had a miserable time with Square. It kept failing to connect over and over and we kept having to hit retry and make customers wait up to 15 mins for their payment to go through.

We love the idea of square but we are thinking about going back to a knuckle buster as a back up for live events because we've had so many instances of Square not being reliable. I am not sure it's all Square's fault, I think it's a general issue with mobile service. The end result is, you can end up with less than reliable service for credit card transactions if you rely 100% on Square.

Try Payware mobile as well. We've been using it for almost 2 years and have never had a problem with it. You can also use it internationally when traveling unlike Square.

Meredith, you might want to consider getting a Mifi account for use at bigger shows. It basically gives you your own wifi hotspot so you're not fighting with a clogged up network.

Thanks @FuzzyInk, have you guys found you don't have the network issues with mifi vs. just using your phone's connection?

Might not solve our issues for events in remote areas, but if it works well at events with tons of other vendors we definitely need to get one.

Meredith,

We generally use our 3G network for most shows, but when it's a bigger one with a lot of other phones clogging up the network it's a great solution. That way we're completely off of the network and just using our own private wifi one.

I swear by this thing. / just bumped a 10 month old thread because I just got an iphone.

Used it for a big show with hundreds of sales and zero problems. PayPal however also has a competing product called PayPal Here with similar rates: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/credit-card-reader

I'll always use Paypal for website orders obviously, but as a company - I hate their fucking guts so won't ever switch from Square to Paypal Here.

I just signed up for a booth which is in two days and I don't have a credit card reader.. I've heard it takes about a week to get verified with Square, is this true?