Can I access customers across sellers?

Questions
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I want to create an application that allows me to retrieve a list of recent purchases made by a user across any seller using Square. Is that possible? Glancing at the API documentation, it seems that Square requires you to stick to one seller’s account at a time.

It would look something like this:

  1. User provides email + grants permission/consent
  2. Look up email in Square DB and retrieve customer Square account
  3. Display list of customer’s recent purchases at Square sellers
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:wave: With Square you’ll need to use OAuth to allow your application access to the information in the Square sellers account. Once you’ve been OAuth’d then you’ll need to make a series of API calls to get all the Payments API ListPayment and Orders API SearchOrders to get all the purchases for a customer. You’ll need to call both of the APIs cause the customer_id won’t alway’s be present in the order. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hi Bryan-- What if I don’t want to involve any particular seller at all? In other words, I’m trying to build a platform where users can sort of use Square like their “wallet”. I don’t want to use OAuth to connect to a Square seller because I want to connect directly with a Square customer, regardless of what Square sellers they may have purchased from in the past. Does that make sense?

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Unfortunately, connecting to Square sellers customers directly isn’t available. Since the customer information is specific to a Square sellers account you have to be OAuth’d to access the customer information. :slightly_smiling_face:

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