welcome to an unboxing of something that I think is really cool now I don't know
if you guys have heard of square but usually when I think of square I think
of you know pants that uh that are hiked
up to about here and then um glasses
I'll need to borrow these thank you okay
so we got some glasses and we got maybe like you know like an over
bite so this is what I think of when I think of square I could be wrong maybe
maybe square is not about that at all actually I know for a fact square is not
about that at all because the kind of square I'm talking about oh shirt's
tucked in there fix it is a totally different kind of square this square is
square. CA square.com square. if you live in Quebec and good
for you if you do um this is the way for
everyday Schmucks like me or you or anyone else to take credit card payments
from people which seems sort of like Bizarro land like how does just anybody
take a credit card payment because I mean it wasn't that long ago that you
know even like it's it's not that long ago that pizza started being able to be
paid for by credit card so it's just kind of crazy so what you do is you sign
up it takes just a couple minutes so I I signed up because I was sort of curious
about this you're ready to accept credit cards you download the app from the app
store Google Play which I've done on my iPhone sign into your account and plug
in your card reader get paid paid fast funds are automatically sent for direct
deposit to your bank account so you can take Visa and MasterCard you get a couple little stickers that you can put
on your shop or your car or you know
wherever else you're doing business out of I suppose let's go ahead and uh get
signed in here so you open up the app there you go Square app and it is as
simple as wait for
it wait for it keying in a number so
let's say $88 88 swiping a card swipe card to charge
or you can clear it or whatever else you want to do and uh it's apparently that
simple now I'm not actually going to swipe a card but you can see the dongle
is very straightforward so it just takes a magnetic stripe you can actually take
payments by keying it in as well but they have a different uh they have a
different charge rate for that so just like credit card fees and this is this
is a funny thing that a lot of consumers don't necessarily know when you pay with
your credit card the retailer or the um
restaurant or wherever else they are getting like fees up the wo so you guys
you know enjoy your travel rewards and your cash back and all that stuff it's
coming directly out of the Merchant's pocket at the end of the day you are getting charged for it so what's cool
about uh what's cool about this is that the rates are actually fairly
competitive with what you'd encounter if you used Visa or Mastercard on your own
so I think it was something in the neighborhood of two and a half for 2.75%
maybe I can get some confirmation do you remember she doesn't remember okay but
either way you can go to square.com and you can find out or actually I don't
know if it's square.com but
square.com credit card and I knew they didn't have any cash and like we're
there together I'll be just you know what I'll eat the $3 give me my 97 bucks
and and we're good so so that's that's how you can do that with the square
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I don't care if you sign up for square but
uh I did