What It Does
Square Payment Form provides a secure, PCI-compliant, customizable payment experience for accepting debit, credit, Square gift cards, or digital wallet payment cards as the first part of a web payment solution.
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Square Payment Form is a client-side, Javascript library (SqPaymentForm) that renders the card inputs and digital wallet buttons that make up the payment form and returns a secure payment token. Use the secure payment token (nonce) with a server component built on the Connect v2 Payments API to charge payment sources and provide a complete web payment solution.
Requirements and limitations
Nonces created with digital wallets cannot be used to store a customer card on file.
Shipping address validation is only available for digital wallets that support address selection in their UI (e.g., Apple Pay on the Web).
Apple Pay digital wallet support is only available for US Square accounts
Square Payment Form auto-populates fields (except CVV field) if the buyer has enabled autofill in the browser settings and stored credit card details in the browser. Most browsers do not permit auto-population of the CVV field for security reasons.
Product components
To take payments online, websites collect payment information through the client browser then use a server component to create a charge against the payment card.
Developers can define the layout of form components and customize the HTML and CSS classes responsible for rendering Square Payment Form components so the payment form fits seamlessly with existing site branding. The 2 customizable component groups are:
Card information input fields
Digital wallet buttons
Learn more about the
technical requirements
of the SqPaymentForm library to see if a payment form integration is the right fit for your eCommerce solution.
Customize available payment types
The payment form can be configured to accept only payment cards, only Square gift cards, only digital wallet payments, or payment cards and digital wallet payments.
Note
The payment form cannot accept payment cards and Square gift cards together. To add both payment types to a payment page, 2 instances of SqPaymentForm must be created. Add 1 instance for payment cards and 1 instance for Square gift cards.
Customize payment form styles
The SqPaymentForm library replaces application placeholder tags with payment
form fields where those tags appear in a page.
See the Payment Form integration guide for more information.