Payments Pricing with Square APIs and SDKs

Square provides secure payment solutions for online and in-person payments made with supported cards. The payments transaction fees are based on the payment platform, transaction type, and geographical region where a payment is handled.

Pricing for handling in-person payments

Square offers various hardware devices (Square Readers and Square Terminal) to process in-person payments. Square also offers SDKs and APIs for your custom apps to connect to these devices. For more information, see In-person payments.

Payment pricing depends on your region, the hardware device you choose, and the library you use. Prices also vary depending on whether a card is present:

• Card present. Indicates that a physical card or mobile device (such as, Apple Pay or Google Pay) was used for payment. The card was tapped, dipped, or swiped depending on the Square Reader used.

• Card not present. Indicates the pricing when a physical card was not used for payment. In this case, the payment was made using a card on file or the card information was typed.

In-person payments using Square Terminal

In-person payments using Square Readers

Depending on your region, Square provides Reader SDK and Point of Sale (POS) API options for your app to connect to the Square Reader hardware of your choice. The following table provides related pricing information:

Pricing for handling online and in-app payments

There are no monthly charges or additional fees for payment processing. All supported credit cards are charged at the same applicable regional rate, regardless of whether the card was issued locally or internationally. For example, an eCommerce transaction in Japan always has the same processing fee (3.6%), even if the participating credit card belongs to a tourist visiting from another country.

Everything from PCI-compliance fees to interchange and chargeback fees are covered by the per-transaction percentage fee. For more information about Square pricing, including custom pricing options, see the Square pricing overview or Square Fees.