Trying a test run of the Square interface as a merchant so I can better educate shops at my local town — Am I missing something to accept Bitcoin as payment? I can only seem to do the conversion part 🤨 Cc @miles 🌞
Anyone tried this? #asknostr
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I see
What do you see my brother?
Looks like you're good? The 'payments' is set to bitcoin
Can’t see Bitcoin in my checkout options on the first screen though. It’s supposed to be there alongside of cash, card etc.
Does this guide help?
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That’s exactly what I followed, and yet I don’t see “Bitcoin” after I create a charge.
😔 Not sure
Are you NY based?
Thought about that as well but no, CT! It’s odd, I have the square Bitcoin wallet and everything and that works!
Odd that it shows btc on the backend but not the front. I’m guessing you’re on the latest Square app version?
Also, did the store successfully land on the CashApp merchant map?
Yeah totally running the latest iOS update. Haven’t turned on the merchant map just yet but I see the option to do that.
I know TG sucks, but I ran through the Square activation process (on an old iPad) and documented it here in our Chief Lightning Officers group.
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It’s the oddest thing, I don’t see it at all, even when I go to my POS settings > checkout > payments. Does square use your devices location or your business location to determine if you can accept Bitcoin? I’m currently physically in NY state but my business is based in CT. That’s the only thing I can think of?!
I just left the farmers market and neither of my two vendors heard about the release or knew how to enable bitcoin payments
I am planning on going back tomorrow with clear instructions on how to enable it
Same for me — that’s why I went through this process so I can educate them next week.
I did not even see the bitcoin conversion on the screens they were showing me…
But also why wasn’t an announcement blasted out to all merchants and a pop up configured in the app that should just allow them to enable bitcoin receipts
This I found — Settings > banking > bitcoin.
Agree — this should have been prompted upon the update of the app.
Yea, I’m pretty sure Square app requires location & microphone to use it. This screenshot is iOS settings, then use search bar “Square”
Might be that it knows you’re in NY, and NY is well…🤡
I’m 10min away from the border — I’ll cross to CT later today and see if Bitcoin magically shows up 😃
But I just took a sale in USD and the Bitcoin conversion worked!
Looking forward to an update. That would be bananas
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It’s weird because even as a merchant with square there have been no announcements or emails. I would never have known about the feature at all if not for nostr. I wonder why square doesn’t put out the word en masse to all merchants?
Agree, it’s strange. Should be a big marketing push. Maybe it’s coming.
That will be very interesting! What is the business name?
We can see how accurate these steps are tomorrow. My dude ran out of raw milk and shrimp today so it gives me an excuse to go back
Not sure if computer makes a difference — I did this whole process on my phone and was able to at least set up the square btc wallet. Gonna log in on computer to see if I missed anything.
Will report back tomorrow
Anyone that frequents legion park market or the viscaya farmers markets in Miami should be able to pay the milk/egg/meat guy with bitcoin starting tomorrow
Also need to work on the veggie stand…
We live in the orange 🍊 bubble.
Any findings on the location side and ability to accept bitcoin?
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