Price showing in api is different then on website

Questions
1

When I set a variation price in Square (for example, $35.00), the price is displayed correctly in the dashboard. However, when I retrieve the same item variation using the /v2/catalog/list API, the price returned is 3500, which doesn’t match the value I entered.

Is this expected behavior? Am I missing a configuration setting, or is this a bug in the Square API?

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variation api response:
"variations": [
{
"type": "ITEM_VARIATION",
"id": "WKDR3V2BWS2MNZ6RJX3DXATC",
"updated_at": "2025-12-05T08:24:43.921Z",
"created_at": "2025-12-05T08:18:45.243Z",
"version": 1764923083921,
"is_deleted": false,
"present_at_all_locations": true,
"item_variation_data": {
"item_id": "7AER4PRMLLWS7PU46UWN7JCJ",
"name": "Kit Variation",
"ordinal": 1,
"pricing_type": "FIXED_PRICING",
"price_money": {
"amount": 3500,
"currency": "USD"
},

2

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Order Price Adjustments
Build and Manage a Simple Inventory
Monitor Sold-out Item Variations or Modifiers

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3

Yes, this is the expected behavior of the Square API. The price returned by the API is in the smallest currency unit, which for USD is cents. Therefore, a price of $35.00 is represented as 3500 cents in the API response. This is a common practice in APIs to avoid issues with floating-point arithmetic. When you see 3500 in the API response, it corresponds to $35.00 in the Square Dashboard. There is no configuration setting or bug involved; it’s simply how the API represents monetary values.

This answer was reviewed by @Bryan-Square.