Introducing Square Reader SDK: Opening Up Square Hardware to Every Developer for the First Time
02 Agosto 2018 - 7:00PM
Business Wire
Today we’re excited to announce Square (NYSE: SQ) Reader SDK, a
complete toolkit that enables developers to reimagine the checkout
experience for sellers and buyers.
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Shake Shack partnered with Fuzz to use
the Square Reader SDK to power a self-service kiosk. (Photo:
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While we’ve built some of the best point-of-sale software on the
market, we know that many industries have niche needs and
businesses may need unique experiences that aren’t served by our
existing products. That’s why we’re opening up our platform and
providing developers direct access to Square hardware for the very
first time.
Square Reader SDK is a set of developer tools for building
custom, in-person checkout experiences. For the first time, iOS and
Android developers can build unique checkout or point-of-sale
applications like self-ordering kiosks, mobile points of sale,
in-store line-busting apps, and more on top of Square’s hardware
and payments ecosystem.
These customized solutions enable developers to work with
existing Square merchants in popular industries such as retail and
restaurants as well as new sellers in verticals not traditionally
supported by Square, like transportation and health care.
Ultimately, developers will use this SDK to help new types of
businesses take payments with Square for the first time, help grow
sales for existing sellers, and build more powerful and compelling
experiences for both buyers and sellers.
The SDK provides secure payments through taps, dips, and swipes
by enabling developers to integrate their application with Square’s
elegant and affordable hardware. And it makes it easy for
developers to deploy their apps across thousands of devices while
also integrating them with critical business solutions like
customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource
planning (ERP) systems.
Reader SDK is designed to be so simple and intuitive that a
developer can integrate it, purchase a Square card reader online or
at a store, and take payments minutes later. Nearly a dozen sellers
and developers in a range of industries have already built and
deployed applications that are running the SDK at scale during our
early access program:
- Shake Shack partnered with the
design and development agency Fuzz to build a self-service
kiosk at its “Shack of the Future” in New York City and at pop-up
locations, where customers can order their food and pay with a card
all on their own. The kiosk drives down wait times for customers
and enables Shake Shack employees to focus on providing a
world-class customer experience from the moment diners enter the
restaurant.
“Square offers us a way to think outside of the box in terms of
what’s possible for transactions and experiences in-Shack. We’re
freed from the restrictions put on us by legacy products, and the
Square suite of tools enables a variety of new opportunities,” said
Anoop Pillarisetti, Digital Product & Strategy at Shake
Shack.
Added Adam Mack, Lead System Architect at Fuzz, the
company that built Shake Shack’s self-service kiosk, “The Square
Reader SDK is one of the few products where an engineer who knows
iOS but has zero domain knowledge in payments can build a secure,
compliant solution that has hardware talking to apps. Developers
can do what they’re good at, while Square can do what it’s good
at.”
- Joe and the Juice was looking
for a reliable and customizable new point-of-sale system that
didn’t need to be built from scratch for its U.S. launch. It used
Square’s existing payment flow and built-in tipping functionality
in its custom point of sale and combined it with Square Stand to
create an elegant new checkout flow. Today Joe and the Juice uses
these terminals in 44 stores across the U.S.
- Infinite Peripherals, an expert
in developing mobile enterprise solutions, built ezMetr, a
next-generation digital taxi meter that is currently used by
thousands of taxi drivers to take card payments. With ezMetr, cab
drivers can upgrade their payments technology to better compete
against ride-sharing platforms like Uber and Lyft. In just six
months, ezMetr has been used by 12 million passengers who have
ridden more than 20 million miles. It has launched as the preferred
choice for taxi cabs in Washington, D.C., with other cities coming
soon.
“The Square Reader SDK and Square APIs have been very easy to
work with and are enterprise-grade. The simplicity and built-in PCI
compliance is taking the complexity out of large-scale deployments
and is an easy choice for our development efforts,” said John
Broderick, CTO of Infinite Peripherals, the developer of the
ezMetr platform.
- QuiqMeds built a mobile
application for health-care professionals to dispense medication at
the point of care so patients never have to make a second trip to a
pharmacy. The health-care industry has high security standards and
complex backend systems, but QuiqMeds found that Square easily met
these requirements. Its mobile platform takes patient copays and
enables providers to dispense medication in the doctor’s office,
hospitals, or right at the patient’s bedside, saving both patients
and providers time and money.
We’re excited to continue expanding the Square Developer
platform with Reader SDK. Since we launched the developer platform
two years ago, a thriving developer community is now building
incredible new experiences with Square every day. With dozens of
APIs that enable developers to integrate Square with their online
store, mobile app, or third-party software and more than 100
partnerships, we can’t wait to see what the Reader SDK will help
developers dream up next.
Developers can get started using the Square Reader SDK today at
squareup.com/developers/reader-sdk or learn more on the Square
Corner blog.
About Square, Inc.
Square, Inc. (NYSE:SQ) creates tools that help sellers start,
run, and grow their businesses. Square enables sellers to accept
card payments and also provides reporting and analytics, next-day
settlement, and chargeback protection. Square’s point-of-sale
software and other business services help sellers manage inventory,
locations, and employees; access financing; engage buyers; build a
website or online store; and grow sales. The Cash App is an easy
way to send, spend, and receive money, and Caviar is a
food-ordering platform. Square was founded in 2009 and is
headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in the United States,
Canada, Japan, Australia, Ireland, and the UK.
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