Add Square Payments to your Squarespace Online Store

27 Sept

Square is one of the most flexible and forward-thinking payment processing companies in the world. If you have a physical store in the United States, you can use Square payments for Point of Sale (POS) purchases, including contactless, but it isn’t available for online payments.

This means that if you build an online store with Squarespace, you can only use Stripe and PayPal. You can’t use Square.

This isn’t a problem for many businesses, but it is for businesses who want to sell CBD products or other restricted products. Although Squarespace accepts most major credit and debit cards as well as Apple Pay using Stripe, there are many businesses that Stripe (and PayPal) consider high-risk and they won’t process payments for.

Whatever you think about CBD products, they are now legal in many territories and whilst you can build a website promoting CBD products on Squarespace, you cannot take payments with Stripe or PayPal. This means that in the USA you could take in-person sales using the Square POS integration with Squarespace, but you cannot accept payments online for those same CBD products.

How to use Square with your Squarespace Online Store

There is a workaround for this, that will allow you to use your beautiful Squarespace website and take payments online with Square! The solution is to use Buy Buttons to connect your Squarespace website to Square Payments. There is no need to abandon your existing Squarespace website. They can be added to Squarespace replacing the built-in cart and checkout with a new one that can use Square to process a wider range of products, including CBD.

Square has a “Buy Button”, a simple piece of code that you add directly to your Squarespace webpage to link directly to your product. The Buy Now button looks simple enough but it links your customer to Square eCommerce to handle taxes, shipping and payment. Customers won’t know that it’s not part of your website.

If you haven’t signed up for Squarespace yet, you can get 10% off your first subscription of a Squarespace website or domain by using the code SFD10 at checkout. If you make a purchase, I may receive a small commission but the price you pay will be discounted!