Square Point of Sale (POS) / iOS Compatibility

An app idea I have may benefit from offering potetial customers point of sale (POS) systems with the services my app offers.

After some investigations I discovered that Apple sell a Square Stand for iPad which consist of a Square reader, Apple pay, chip cards and a holder to add a seperately purchased iPad to use as a screen to aid the visual benefits of processing transactions.


The apple product I made reference to is in the link that follows:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HKR72LL/A/square-stand-for-ipad?fnode=f10a8911f8392b681554fb844e2ba1c91bc407a3ad71e80c96f98c9884109374e19468d8d67bf90a6f1e38e9b5cf8033c3ecf6c624e2067154e86a354cb971142ba1abd9220266a9330256b3099dce5c2365e0323ea0074b5877e5860cd65aa45aea9a73228b0dc6fa2026f3cc3e9b57


The company Square sells a simular system:

https://squareup.com/shop/hardware/us/en/products/register-pos


The Square system offers the same service i.e. screen, reader, contactless payments, chip cards etc.


The above being said my Question is


Can I make my app compatible with the Square system seeing as the Square system is an app available in the apple app store also there ia a version that is compatible with iPads?


The reason I ask is because the Square hardware is quite sharp, elegant and cutting edge looking as oppossed to the iPad version which also looks nice but a different look compared to the Square design.


If there's any information anyone can share that may be useful I would be extremely grateful.

Replies

I would imagine that you should contact Square to see what is involved and if they support third party software using their hardware.