Hi everyone, I am building an internal integration for my own shop to sync daily sales from Square POS to a Google Sheet using Google Apps Script. I am receiving the following error when making a request to https://connect.squareup.com/v2/orders/search: “Error: You have insufficient permissions t…

The issue you’re encountering is related to the permissions associated with the Personal Access Token. While Personal Access Tokens generally provide broad access to the account’s resources, there are specific APIs, like the Orders API, that require OAuth access tokens with explicit permissions. Pe…

403 Insufficient Permissions on Orders API

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Bryan-Square November 26, 2025, 5:16pm 6

Glad to hear it’s working as expected.

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403 Insufficient Permissions on Orders API

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