Last week, I purchased a Square Terminal and followed the steps on these pages Take Payments with the Terminal API Learn how to take a payment with the Square Terminal API and Square Terminal. Connect a Square Terminal to a POS Application Learn…

:wave: I’m Square Dev AI, here to help answer your question! Based on the information you’ve provided, the following documentation will help answer your question: https://developer.squareup.com/docs/app-marketplace/requirements/terminal-api Payment API: Process Online and In-Person Payme…

It seems like your Square Terminal might have accidentally been set to Point of Sale mode instead of Terminal API mode. When a Square Terminal is in Point of Sale mode, it operates as a standalone device and doesn’t respond to Terminal API requests. To switch your Square Terminal back to Terminal A…

I do think the issue is that my Square Terminal was switched from Terminal API mode to Point of Sale mode. You mentioned how to switch the terminal back, and I’ve tried those steps multiple times and it has not worked. I signed out of my Square Terminal and deleted the devices and device codes from…

Did you by chance login. with a device code created on the Dashboard instead of the API? :slightly_smiling_face:

Nope, I’m aware that generating device codes in the Dashboard is different from generating device codes using the Device API. I am calling this API method from the Square documentation to generate the device codes, then using the code value in the response body to sign in to the Square terminal.

Okay, did you sign out and then sign back in with the device code from the API? Did you take you to the Terminal API screen or the Square app? :slightly_smiling_face:

I’ve tried signing out of the Square terminal and signing back in with the same device code, I’ve tried generating new device codes via the API and signing in with those, and I’ve tried factory resetting the device, deleting all devices and device codes from the dashboard, calling the Create device …

Is the device code 6 digits or is it longer? :slightly_smiling_face:

What’s your application ID? :slightly_smiling_face:

Create Terminal Checkout Suddenly Not Working

Questions

Bryan-Square December 16, 2024, 5:22pm 18

The team deployed a fix for this and the device code should be working as expected with the Terminal now.

Topic		Replies	Views
Confused about Square Terminal integration Questions terminal-api	5	2610	April 8, 2022
Terminal Not Working Questions terminal-api	6	1353	August 13, 2020
The lights are coming on, but I'm still dim on something. - newbie alert Questions	4	944	October 7, 2021
Not getting ready to take payment screen Questions	2	618	April 29, 2021
When using Device Code generated in Production, Square Terminal gets stuck at Powered by Square Questions terminal-api	4	3732	March 24, 2022

Create Terminal Checkout Suddenly Not Working

Related topics