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We love href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/tag/square/">Square, the awesome little dongle that plugs into your iPhone or iPad, and lets you pay by card at food trucks, farmers markets, hot dog stands and craft fairs. The most recent change to their modus operandi is the introduction of href="http://itunes.apple.com/app/square-card-case/id455018546?mt=8">Square Card Case for heavy users. It remembers the places you’ve paid at using Square, and if the merchants have opted into a free service, they become a “card” in your “case”. You can then pay at these places without swiping your physical credit card, instead just having the payment go through automatically — great if you’re a regular.
I’m hoping it’ll allow you to beam in your order before you get there, so your gelato is waiting and paid for as soon as you rock through the door.
Square Card Case also allows you to accept payments, which raises questions about the usefulness of href="http://itunes.apple.com/app/square/id335393788?mt=8">Square’s original app — but the old version still has a few tricks up its sleeves. A recent update has improved transaction speed, overhauled the tipping interface, no longer requires a signature for sales under $25, and works on the iPad where Card Case does not.
[via href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/22/square-makes-ios-apps-speedier-no-longer-requires-signatures-for-transactions-under-25/">TechCrunch]
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