Learn how to quickly sign up for a Square account and test APIs.
Dev Essentials

Get Started

Get started building on the Square Developer Platform with the following steps. You can build custom solutions and applications that take payments, create and track orders, manage inventory, organize customers, and more.

These steps introduce some of the Square developer tools. For an overview of the Square APIs and developer tools, see What's Next.

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