thread Re: Card Capture in Payments Troubleshooting

Card Capture

Tio — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 08:19:47 GMT

Hi just wondering if there is any Square API to integrate into a wordpress site with a restaurant reservation system that we can use to charge deposits for customer bookings. We want to only pre-authorise or capture the card and if they dont show up or cancel within a certain time frame we charge the card.

Re: Card Capture

Seamus — Fri, 28 May 2021 01:44:20 GMT

Hi @Tio,

At the moment Square products (Eg. our POS system, card reader, Virtual Terminal) don't offer the ability to pre-authorise cards - though I'm not sure if this may be different if you're working with APIs.

I found an older developer blog post on this, so it may be possible! With that said, you might want to check out our Developer Forum for specialist help here - unfortunately we're not able to help with API inquiries via our Seller Community forum, but the developer one should be able to offer a bit more insight!

Re: Card Capture

Tio — Fri, 28 May 2021 01:50:03 GMT

Thanks. Ill make contact with the developer site.