How To Set Up Square Chip Reader

Fix Up the Square Reader for Contactless and Fleck

Before setting up your Square Reader for contactless and scrap, make sure you accept a compatible device with the latest version of the Square app.

The location of the power button, chip card reader slot, and LED lights on the Square contactless and chip card reader.

For a full overview on setting up your reader, you tin can sentinel this video or keep reading below:

1. Check the Bombardment of Your Foursquare Reader

For an authentic bombardment reading, unplug your reader from whatever power source.

Firmly printing the button on the reader. Greenish lights bespeak that you're charged and gear up to go. If you see a single red light, charge upward immediately. Once your reader is on, y'all don't need to worry about turning it off. It'll automatically go into slumber fashion later on 2 hours of inactivity. To wake it upward from sleep style, firmly press the button on the side of the reader once.

ii. Charge Your Square Reader

Connect one end of the accompanying USB cablevision to your reader and the other end to a USB port similar a jail cell phone charger, computer, or car charger.

It volition take around 2 hours for a reader with a low battery to accuse completely.

Note: You can also use the Dock for Foursquare Reader to keep your reader charged and in identify while you take payments.

3. Wirelessly Connect Your Square Reader

The new reader connects wirelessly with Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE). Be sure y'all have the latest version of the Square app for your device. Note: For optimal performance, please ensure your device is running the latest version of its operating system and the Square app.

Watch this video to larn how to wirelessly connect your reader:

To connect your reader:

Get to your device settings and make sure Bluetooth is turned on.
Open up the Square app and tap More from the navigation bar at the bottom of your screen.
Tap Settings > Hardware > Card Readers > "Connect a Reader."
Put your reader into pairing mode by pressing the reader's push for 3-10 seconds.
Remove your finger as soon as you lot encounter orangish flashing lights. If you see red flashing lights, you've held the push button also long and y'all'll need to try again.

When continued, the reader volition be listed as Reader Gear up in-app.

Any necessary firmware updates will be automatically installed once the reader has been continued.

Now that you lot're fix, learn more nigh accepting chip card and contactless payments.

Annotation: The wireless connection can be lost if the reader and device are more than 10ft autonomously.

If your reader was previously paired to a dissimilar device: Keep in mind, if you are reconnecting a reader that was previously paired to a different device, you lot may demand to forget your reader from the device it was previously paired with. For more information on reconnecting a reader, check out our troubleshooting article.

What do the lights mean?

Connecting your reader

Accepting a payment

Checking your battery

Square Stand and the Square Reader for Contactless and Scrap

If yous're using a Foursquare Stand with the reader, fix is simple. But plug the included USB cable (or optional Dock for Square Reader) to the USB hardware hub on the Square Stand.

You can also connect your reader wirelessly if at that place are no free USB ports on your stand's hardware hub.

Note: The iPad 2 doesn't wirelessly connect with the reader and requires a Square Stand up to connect via USB.

Watch this video to acquire how to connect the Square Stand and reader:

Discover answers to oft asked questions and review these reader troubleshooting tips if yous run into whatever issues.