How To Connect WooCommerce with Square

Editorial Team December 29, 2018 2 min read

WooCommerce Square is a popular payment gateway for business organizations that attract both online and point-of-sale purchases. Square is often used with mobile devices like tablets and smartphones for remote transactions. By using this free woocommerce plugin you can expand your in-store business to online sales easily. Square payments are only available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Japan or the UK.

WooCommerce Square Installation Requirements

WooCommerce 2.6.o or higher version
PHP version 5.3 or above
WordPress version 4.4 or above
cURL installed on server
Square account
SSL certificate
And of course the location set in your square account

Create a Square account

To create a square account:

Go to squareup.com/signup
Enter your mail address and confirm the same mail
Create a password
Enter a business location
And finally continue to complete the account creation process.

Please keep in mind to stay logged into Square during setup of your WooCommerce Square plugin.

Installation

Download the installation .zip file from your WooCommerce account.
Now log into your WordPress site and navigate to WordPress Admin > Plugins > Add New to upload the file you downloade using Choose File option.
And Activate the extension.

Setup and Configuration

After installation complete, you have to setup and configure WooCommerce Square account.

General Settings

Go to WooCommerce > Settings > General.
Enter your Address according to the above screenshot. You must have to use supported countries that mentioned in the first para.
Now Save the Changes.

Connecting WooCommerce Square

After complete the general settings, go to WooCommerce > Settings > Integration > Square.

Connect with square like the above screenshot.
Log into your square account (Assume that you are already logged in)
You will be prompted to Verify identity of your site/store with That’s My Site – Redirect Me option.

After verification you will be returned to Square settings.

Square Settings

This settings option will be found at WooCommerce > Settings > Integration.

Select the Connect/Disconnect button to Disconnect from Square(if are connected)

Select a Business Location from the drop down menu. It will be entered and pulled from your Square account.
Enter your email address in Notification Email box.
Put a tick on Log debug message option. You can view logs at: WooCommerce > Status > Logs and select the log that starts with woocommerce_square_sync.

Synchronization Settings

Put a tick on Enabled Products checkbox for products synchronization.
To sync your product categories put tick on Sync Categories check box.
Tick on Sync Inventory check box to sync your product inventory .
To sync your product images tick on Sync Images check box.
To auto-sync Square to WooCommerce click on Enable check box.
There is a choice to Initiate a Manual Sync.
Now Save changes.

Square Payment Gateway Settings

For payment gateway settings:

Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Payments.
Use the toggle option under Enabled to select Square.
Now Click on Set up.

Tick the checkbox to Enable/Disable Square as the Payment option.
Now enter a Title.
Enter a Description.
An optional field Delay Capture to pre-authorize a charge and not capture it until later.
Create Customer (optional).
Put Tick on the Log Debug Messages checkbox.
Now Save Changes.