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by ROFISH 5512 days ago
Does anybody know how programmable their POS is? (ie. if there's a sale, is there a webhook that can be called?)
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No public APIs yet, but we'll get there. (I'm an engineer at Square)
Thanks! We use Square to handle credit card payments for conventions, but it's quite annoying to swap between an in-house iPad webapp that handles inventory, receipt printing, and sending the order data to a master database.

Allowing simple iOS protocol handlers like "square://pay?product1=Mug&price1=20.00&product2=Shirt&price2=22.00&callback=inventorify%3A%2F%2Fsquare_callback" and it callsback to url "inventorify://square_callback?success=true&paid=42.00" would be amazing as I don't have to have the awkward step of "Exit the inventorify app and charge the customer for $42.00 through the Square app" and then the cashier forgets the amount to charge for.