Square’s Payments Hardware Now Supports Custom Point of Sale
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True to form, Square is making it easy for developers (or restaurants) to build their own point-of-sale solutions accepting Square payments, no salesperson required.
Square is making it easier for any restaurant to accept payments using its technology on their own terms. The company just announced its Square Reader SDK (software development kit), allowing developers to build apps that use Square’s card reader, contactless reader, and stand.
For restaurants, this could equal a custom app-based point of sale (POS) system, built to fit the restaurant's exact needs and specifications. For developers, this means the ability to build POS software for restaurants, using Square to handle payments. The technology lends itself to custom self-ordering kiosks, mobile point of sale or in-store line busting applications with built-in payment techn
