Any one using Square or a similar product?

[rwgill]

Just curious if anyone in LJ land is using Square for mobile credit card process or a similar device. I know Intuit has such a device as well. I think it is a neat idea and seems like it would have been great for my folks when they used to sell stuff at events.

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[sjthespian]

I've used it for taking LOPSA registrations at SCALE this year and it worked really well. We also had other people using it last year at LISA. The rates are almost as good as using paypal directly and it's a lot cheaper than paying a monthly charge for a credit card reader (which in the case of LOPSA almost never worked).

The only drawback for us is that it is a painful manual process to get the membership payments imported into our membership system. The info you get from Square is only what you enter into the transaction, so matching it to any sort of external database can be painful.