Pay With Square App: Software Offers Invisible Mobile Payment Solution
By Karla Robinson
August 7, 2012
August 7, 2012
- Square has already gained popularity and success with its small credit card reader that plugs into smartphone audio jacks. The company wants to take the service one step further: remove the device altogether and enable payments without even digging out your wallet or phone.
- Pay With Square keeps users credit card information to enable charges online. While it may be “unsettling” for first time users who don’t know whether to trust the app, the company hopes it will improve the payment experience and even help customer service.
- “When you open a tab on Pay With Square at a store, café, restaurant or food cart, the merchant sees your name and face appear on Register. When you check out, you give your name, so the merchant knows on whose tab to put your order. When the payment goes through, your phone buzzes, and the merchant says you’re all set,” ReadWriteWeb explains.
- The “Auto-Open Tab When Near” option will open and close your tab based on location so you don’t even have to use your phone at all.
- “Likewise, on the merchant’s side, Register keeps track of when customers are nearby and ready to pay. Since it shows their names and faces and keeps track of their visits, the merchant has a powerful customer service advantage: ‘Hi, Anna. How are you? Would you like the usual?'” the article says.
- “Higher technology made payments more complicated,” suggests the post. “As our economies gained complexity, so did our media of exchange. But now we’re over the hump, and mobile networking can make things simpler again.”
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