Square APP Fee Concerns

Questions
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Problem Statement:

There is the 60 & 90 % app fee rule in the square.

That is:

  • When total_money is $5.00 or greater, the maximum allowed application fee percentage is 90%.
  • When total_money is less than $5.00, the maximum allowed application fee percentage is 60%.

So in our case, this rule is breaking. Due to which square is not accepting the order. So what we want is that if at any time the 60% or 90 % rule breaks then our flow should not be affected by this.

Reference Link of the 60 & 90 % rule: Payments API: Take Payments and Collect Fees

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Note: we are using the Square Point of Sale platform.

API Link that we are using to conduct the payment: POST /v2/payments - Square API Explorer

Questions:

  1. Is there any other payment API that supports the Square Point of Sale Platform and does not have the 60 & 90 % rule?
  2. Is there any way through which we can separately charge the square merchant via API and transfer the amount to the square developer?
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At this time the Payments API is the only API for collecting a fee with Square. Also I’m trying to better understand you use case. In what case would you be taking more than 60 or 90 % of a merchants payment as an application fee?

If you would like to separately charge a Square merchant via the API you can the Subscriptions API or if you have their card saved with the Cards API you can charge that card with the Payments API.