I have been using square payment form, which I understand is being deprecated. Currently, I allow my clients to enter their name and email address, along with an amount to contribute. That information is passed to the square payment form and they can pay online. This allows me to mark them accord…

Okay, if your storing the customer elsewhere you can pass in a reference_id that maps back to the customer in your other system. :slightly_smiling_face:

:wave: There are a few different options you have now with Square. You could use our Checkout Links to easily allow your customers to pay a custom amount or sing up for various subscriptions. Or you can migrate to the Web Payments SDK for taking custom amounts as well as build a custom subscription …

Ok, so I love the idea of using the checkout links. I have a few created: [image] Membership Chiropractic Care This is an example of one. The way I WAS doing it was to pass a custom amount, name and email address to the payment form. Once they paid, it wo…

:wave: Glad to hear you enjoy the Checkout Link. With the Payments API you’ll get the receipt_url that you can email to your customer. The Payments API will return all payments processed with Square on an account. :slightly_smiling_face:

Ok, receipt URL is not enough for all customers. They need it on my letterhead with specific things on there. How can I setup the payments API to pull in new payments, including the name and email if they used those variable fields?

Okay, you can use the Order API to pull in all the order information and populate it on your letterhead to send to your customers. :slightly_smiling_face:

Awesome. I already use the paymentsApi to pull in payments from Square, which I then can attach the order (which I think the additional fields are attached to). I have extra fields of First Name, Last Name and Email that they can fill out, and need to bring that in. Do you know where in the JSON …

With our APIs orders are created before the payment. The created order_id is then passed in with the Payment request so it’ll be associated with the payment. If your wanting to collect customer information you can use the Customers API to create a customer. We’ll return a customer_id once the custom…

I figured it out. It is under $order->line_items[0]->modifiers and is an array, with each field and it’s value listed as “{{ field name}}: {{field_value}}”. I’m sure the customers API is good, but I don’t need to create customers in Square and prefer NOT to do this. I simply need them to found in…

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