Create payment

If set to true and charging a Square Gift Card, a payment might be returned with amount_money equal to less than what was requested. For example, a request for $20 when charging a Square Gift Card with a balance of $5 results in an APPROVED payment of $5. You might choose to prompt the buyer for an additional payment to cover the remainder or cancel the Gift Card payment. This field cannot be true when autocomplete = true.

For more information, see Partial amount with Square Gift Cards.

Default: false

The amount of money to accept for this payment, not including tip_money.

The amount must be specified in the smallest denomination of the applicable currency (for example, US dollar amounts are specified in cents). For more information, see Working with Monetary Amounts.

The currency code must match the currency associated with the business that is accepting the payment.

The amount of money that the developer is taking as a fee for facilitating the payment on behalf of the seller.

The amount cannot be more than 90% of the total amount of the payment.

The amount must be specified in the smallest denomination of the applicable currency (for example, US dollar amounts are specified in cents). For more information, see Working with Monetary Amounts.

The fee currency code must match the currency associated with the seller that is accepting the payment. The application must be from a developer account in the same country and using the same currency code as the seller.

For more information about the application fee scenario, see Take Payments and Collect Fees.

To set this field, PAYMENTS_WRITE_ADDITIONAL_RECIPIENTS OAuth permission is required. For more information, see Permissions.

If set to true, this payment will be completed when possible. If set to false, this payment is held in an approved state until either explicitly completed (captured) or canceled (voided). For more information, see Delayed capture.

Default: true

The buyer's billing address.

The buyer's email address.

The buyer's phone number. Must follow the following format:

1. A leading + symbol (followed by a country code)
2. The phone number can contain spaces and the special characters ( , ) , - , and .. Alphabetical characters aren't allowed.
3. The phone number must contain between 9 and 16 digits.

Additional details required when recording a cash payment (source_id is CASH).

Details about the customer making the payment.

The Customer ID of the customer associated with the payment.

This is required if the source_id refers to a card on file created using the Cards API.

The action to be applied to the payment when the delay_duration has elapsed. The action must be CANCEL or COMPLETE. For more information, see Time Threshold.

Default: CANCEL

The duration of time after the payment's creation when Square automatically either completes or cancels the payment depending on the delay_action field value. For more information, see Time threshold.

This parameter should be specified as a time duration, in RFC 3339 format.

Note: This feature is only supported for card payments. This parameter can only be set for a delayed capture payment (autocomplete=false).

Default:

• Card-present payments: "PT36H" (36 hours) from the creation time.
• Card-not-present payments: "P7D" (7 days) from the creation time.

Example for 2 days, 12 hours, 30 minutes, and 15 seconds: P2DT12H30M15S

Additional details required when recording an external payment (source_id is EXTERNAL).

The location ID to associate with the payment. If not specified, the main location is used.

An optional note to be entered by the developer when creating a payment.

An optional field for specifying the offline payment details. This is intended for internal 1st-party callers only.

Associates a previously created order with this payment.

A user-defined ID to associate with the payment.

You can use this field to associate the payment to an entity in an external system (for example, you might specify an order ID that is generated by a third-party shopping cart).

The buyer's shipping address.

Optional additional payment information to include on the customer's card statement as part of the statement description. This can be, for example, an invoice number, ticket number, or short description that uniquely identifies the purchase.

Note that the statement_description_identifier might get truncated on the statement description to fit the required information including the Square identifier (SQ *) and name of the seller taking the payment.

An optional TeamMember ID to associate with this payment.

The amount designated as a tip, in addition to amount_money.

The amount must be specified in the smallest denomination of the applicable currency (for example, US dollar amounts are specified in cents). For more information, see Working with Monetary Amounts.

The currency code must match the currency associated with the business that is accepting the payment.

An identifying token generated by payments.verifyBuyer(). Verification tokens encapsulate customer device information and 3-D Secure challenge results to indicate that Square has verified the buyer identity.

For more information, see SCA Overview.