Square Credit Card iPhone Android Dongle Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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752 words · ~3 min read
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welcome to an unboxing of something that I think is really cool now I don't know
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if you guys have heard of square but usually when I think of square I think
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of you know pants that uh that are hiked
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up to about here and then um glasses
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I'll need to borrow these thank you okay
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so we got some glasses and we got maybe like you know like an over
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bite so this is what I think of when I think of square I could be wrong maybe
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maybe square is not about that at all actually I know for a fact square is not
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about that at all because the kind of square I'm talking about oh shirt's
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tucked in there fix it is a totally different kind of square this square is
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square. CA square.com square. if you live in Quebec and good
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for you if you do um this is the way for
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everyday Schmucks like me or you or anyone else to take credit card payments
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from people which seems sort of like Bizarro land like how does just anybody
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take a credit card payment because I mean it wasn't that long ago that you
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know even like it's it's not that long ago that pizza started being able to be
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paid for by credit card so it's just kind of crazy so what you do is you sign
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up it takes just a couple minutes so I I signed up because I was sort of curious
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about this you're ready to accept credit cards you download the app from the app
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store Google Play which I've done on my iPhone sign into your account and plug
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in your card reader get paid paid fast funds are automatically sent for direct
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deposit to your bank account so you can take Visa and MasterCard you get a couple little stickers that you can put
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on your shop or your car or you know
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wherever else you're doing business out of I suppose let's go ahead and uh get
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signed in here so you open up the app there you go Square app and it is as
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simple as wait for
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it wait for it keying in a number so
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let's say $88 88 swiping a card swipe card to charge
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or you can clear it or whatever else you want to do and uh it's apparently that
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simple now I'm not actually going to swipe a card but you can see the dongle
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is very straightforward so it just takes a magnetic stripe you can actually take
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payments by keying it in as well but they have a different uh they have a
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different charge rate for that so just like credit card fees and this is this
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is a funny thing that a lot of consumers don't necessarily know when you pay with
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your credit card the retailer or the um
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restaurant or wherever else they are getting like fees up the wo so you guys
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you know enjoy your travel rewards and your cash back and all that stuff it's
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coming directly out of the Merchant's pocket at the end of the day you are getting charged for it so what's cool
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about uh what's cool about this is that the rates are actually fairly
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competitive with what you'd encounter if you used Visa or Mastercard on your own
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so I think it was something in the neighborhood of two and a half for 2.75%
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maybe I can get some confirmation do you remember she doesn't remember okay but
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either way you can go to square.com and you can find out or actually I don't
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know if it's square.com but
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square.com credit card and I knew they didn't have any cash and like we're
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there together I'll be just you know what I'll eat the $3 give me my 97 bucks
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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
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uh I did