Hi all, We are selling online gift cards and creating them using the gift cards api to be redeemable in the Square app. Customers have the option of printing the voucher through our system and ideally it would have a QR code (as per our non Square vouchers) that could be scanned within the Square …

Sorry, “aren’t” is what that’s supposed to be. :upside_down_face:

Here’s something that might help: Smart Tap: NFC Pass acceptance - #3 by Marlin87

It’s worth noting that Square’s own GiveAndGetLocal website which allows purchasing gift cards of any given merchant delivers the gift card with a QR code along with a barcode and along with the GAN. The QR code can be easily decoded and it points to a url. If Square can simply officially document …

We don’t currently have guidance on the URL however you can create a barcode with sqgc://GAN and that will work for scanning. :slightly_smiling_face:

Hi Bryan, Should gift card barcodes work with Square Register? I have the Code128 barcode accessible from https://squareup.com/gift/*merchantid*/check-balance and I have confirmed that it matches the sqgc://*gan* pattern. But I am unable to get the Square Register hardware to recognize it when sc…

Hi Bryan, I want to be clear that I am using Square Register hardware and not the Square POS app. When I scan the card I get the Invalid gift card scanned message shown in my original post, nothing appears in the card number entry box. The scanner is working with other items, and if I scan the ca…

That error means that the Register is looking for an item. Have you navigated to the gift card balance check section and is the cursor in the input field for the gift card? :slightly_smiling_face:

Hi Bryan, I have, and that is where the first picture is from. I was only showing the product lookup to confirm for you that the bar code scanner is working. I also have some more information that partially explains things, but that doesn’t really help me. The first card number ending in 9251 is …

I had time to test this with a 16-digit card number, and as far as I can tell, it is the gan_source of “OTHER” that prevents the bar code from working. The “SQUARE” gan_source is reserved not available to API callers, so I don’t think this is something I can fix on my own. So, amending my questio…

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Bryan-Square March 7, 2023, 12:32am 21

Yes, they do work with the Square POS. What’s being populated when you scan the gift card?

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