Ah, gotcha. Thanks for circling back, @rrowe1975! We don't currently offer the ability to scan items using your phone itself but that would be a great way to streamline the checkout process. I'll be sure to share your suggestion with our Product Liaison team.
In the meantime, hopefully one of our currently supported hardware options will be useful. Thank you for your patience and keep in touch for updates!
Go to play store download: barcode/NFC Scanner app. Allow keyboard replaced with new. Allow camera use. Tap in where you type square app keyboard will pop up tap barcode bottom scan that's it
Yeah, its not that trickey to intigrate a barcode scanner into the camera of a mobile device. I use Woocommerce and WooSquare to integrate my online and Square POS. I had a friend create an iOS app (the app is called Skoo) that scans barcodes and allows me to update inventory on my website. Which inturn gets synced with Square via the WooSquare pluggin. Its not perfect but it general works. It took my friend about 2 weeks to create the app. Works great with Woocommerce. The weak point is the WooSquare intigration between Woocommerce and Square. That pluggin needs some work for sure.
As far as the barcode scanning beeing built into the apps ... Square, stop making it sound way more difficult than it really is.
I do not understand why square does not offer this. And like others have said, it has been 2 years now that people are asking for this and it is STILL not offered, yet PayPal does offer this. With the expansion of my business, I am not considering going back to PayPal, even though I like the ease of Square just automatically transfering the money and not having to do it manually.
I am looking for a good app to track my inventory and do POS, I thought I found it with Square but u do not support barcodes or QR codes with phone camera for checkout or inventory management so I will keep looking.
So true. This would be a vital feature for us if it was offered. I have used many apps that have this feature. I feel Square is holding off on adding the feature because of their partnership with their mobile scanner company. Otherwise, some progress woild have been made between 2016 and now....
The tech has been available for years. Your customers have been asking for years. Your competitors are offering it. When will Square, a great POS platform, include a barcode reader in the mobile app?
It's been like 2 years with no update. Can confirm this method works great but please keep in mind the scanner apps have access to your keyboard/camera and can view you typing in passwords on other sites as well. Use it with a separate business phone just for square.
1. Download barcode scanner app
2. Allow keyboard and camera permissons
3. Open square and go to library
4. Touch search icon
5. Select scanner on keyboard option
6. Scan
Note: You will need a separate sku for EACH variation with woocommerce, not just an umbrella sku, to have the scanner select the correct variation.
While the method I have discovered is not ideal......it does speed up the process somewhat from “customers gathering around a single terminal for checkout”.
1. In your Square inventory edit mode, use a barcode scanner and ipad to scan your product barcode into your inventory OR Manually (insert eye roll) type in the barcode of your product item.
2. Download QR Scanner app.
3. At checkout, use QR scanner to scan the barcode. When the barcode is generated, hit “copy”.
4. Exit the QR app and open Squar app.
5. In the Search Bar, paste the copies barcode.
6. Your inventory item associated with that barcode should appear.
