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Is Square available in New Zealand

MurrayCorps — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 10:25:04 GMT

I read an article that advised Square was able to accept Credit Card processing in New Zealand. Now that I have signed up, the website is saying this is not the case. Which is correct ?

If Not, when will Square processing be available ?

Also, will Square be able to process EftPos payments ?

Re: Is Square available in New Zealand

VanKalkerFarms — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 03:13:58 GMT

Square is not currently available in New Zealand. Square operates in US, Canada, Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

as for EFTPOS payments, they aren't currently available in Australia but they hope to have it sometime but there is no timeline. https://squareup.com/help/au/en/article/5665-can-i-accept-eftpos-cards

Re: Is Square available in New Zealand

Still — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 21:13:06 GMT

I see that Square is available if you couple with Xero but this makes it expensive. I used Square in Australia and would also like to use it here in NZ. Has anyone used Square on its own without the Xero link?

Re: Is Square available in New Zealand

Seamus — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 02:12:44 GMT

Hey @Still,

Thanks for getting in touch!

At the moment Square is not available in NZ for card processing, whether or not you have a Xero account linked to your Square account.

You can use Square as a free Point of Sale app in NZ to track sales and run your business - the Xero link will allow you to feed transaction data recorded on Square's POS into Xero for record keeping purposes, however it won't allow you to process card payments.

Square is currently available for card processing in the USA, Canada, Japan, Australia and the UK. I'm happy to pass on your feedback to our product team though, as we do track demand for Square as a card processor in other countries.

All the best!

Re: Is Square available in New Zealand

kirstymorison — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 06:40:09 GMT

I'm another NZer who has used Square in Canada and now wish I coulkd use it now that i have relocated back home to NZ! What are the chances anytime soon? Thanks Kirsty

Re: Is Square available in New Zealand

Seamus — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 23:24:01 GMT

Hey @kirstymorison,

Thanks for reaching out.

Unfortunately we have no current plans to expand into NZ for card processing.

That said, we'd ultimately love to be available as a payment processor to as many people as possible, so while it's not in our short term plans, we're not going to rule it out as a possibility in the future.

Re: Is Square available in New Zealand

BrianNZ — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 04:06:07 GMT

I have used square up in Australia (not much as cash IS king LOL🤣 ) but now I’ve moved my business to New Zealand and like many others I want to continue using SQUARE UP as it is the BEST option for mobile businesses. If it can be done in Australia it can be done in NZ

Re: Is Square available in New Zealand

Seamus — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:51:28 GMT

Hey @MERKABANZ,

Thanks for reaching out!

We've got nothing new to announce in regards to Square being available in NZ as a payment processor unfortunately. As usual, we're tracking all feedback though!

Re: Is Square available in New Zealand

logangorilla — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 21:11:58 GMT

Square is desperately needed in New Zealand! 🙂

Please make it happen!

Re: Is Square available in New Zealand

GBullen — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 22:13:28 GMT

Any plans for bringing square to New Zealand in 2020? Would love to use the product for my business! Thanks

Re: Is Square available in New Zealand

Seamus — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 00:19:41 GMT

Hey @GBullen,

Still no plans at the moment unfortunately - if that changes I'll be sure to alert everyone who's inquired in this thread!

Re: Is Square available in New Zealand

powerheadmc — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 02:54:39 GMT

I can't get xero to integrate with square in new zealand

Receiving the error when get started is selected from square

Oops... We've lost you
You've somehow ended up in the middle of nowhere.
Head home or search below.

The URL shows

https://www.xero.com/nz/square/signup/?xtid=x30squareseamless&utm_source=square&utm_medium=dashboard&utm_campaign=square

If .com/nz is changed to AU a square page comes up

The question is although we are stuck using a crappy nz eftpos machine can we still process sales & track via square with xero integration?

Re: Is Square available in New Zealand

Seamus — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 05:22:15 GMT

Hey @powerheadmc,

Thanks for getting in touch.

To be honestly, I'm not actually sure if this will work or not. This integration is built by Xero rather than Square, so you'd need to get in touch with them to determine if it's going to work with a NZ Square account that doesn't feature card processing.

You could also check out the Xero-Square integration made by Amaka. Again, I'm not sure if this will work with a NZ Square account, however it's worth asking the question!

Re: Is Square available in New Zealand

lickthis — Sat, 02 May 2020 22:47:25 GMT

Hi - We would like to use Square here in NZ. Our friends in Australia have a similar business to ours (we both have Ice cream Parlours) and they keep raving about how good it is. When will it be available here for Kiwi's - we need a boost - we only did 0.7% of our normal April sales because we were shut down as a result of Covid19 restrictions

Re: Is Square available in New Zealand

MERKABANZ — Sat, 02 May 2020 23:46:51 GMT

@Seamus Can Square not move into nz because Paymark has the monopoly on card based payments?

I am bitter that this is taking so long for Square to move into this payment space in NZ and I don't know where to place my frustration at the powers at be in NZ or the powers at be at square?

All I mean is that's transparency would be largely appreciated by all.

Cheers

Re: Is Square available in New Zealand

hiteknz — Sat, 02 May 2020 23:53:42 GMT

I think it's time action is taken against the institutions in New Zealand

Clarification is needed first. Can square fully function in New Zealand?

I'm going to assume the banking or financial sector will not allow square to be integrated into small / medium sized businesses bank accounts

In theory the industry would make higher profits if businesses couldn't use payment services like Square & would be highly motivated to keep Square out

What would be the reason why Square and the eftpos reading tag not be available here? Surely the New Zealand market would be profitable enough to pursue

Could someone from Square explain why the service isn't working here so that action can be taken against local authorities to make it happen

Thanks!

Re: Is Square available in New Zealand

Seamus — Mon, 04 May 2020 01:50:05 GMT

Hi @lickthis, @MERKABANZ and @hiteknz,

Thanks for getting in touch. We appreciate your enthusiasm for Square and understand our payment processing services would be useful for NZ merchants, and sellers around the world!

At the moment Square is available for payment processing in Australia, USA, Canada, UK and Japan. Expanding into new territories and markets is something we've done before, however I don't have any information as to if or when we might launch payments in New Zealand, or any given country. We certainly track feedback and demand though, thank you for adding your support!

Re: Is Square available in New Zealand

lickthis — Mon, 04 May 2020 05:44:34 GMT

I hope that Square makes it to NZ someday - if I can help in anyway let me know.

Re: Is Square available in New Zealand

hiteknz — Mon, 04 May 2020 05:47:09 GMT

Who would be the right person at Square to talk to regarding expansion in New Zealand

There is a black hole of a market gap here for this type of service

Re: Is Square available in New Zealand

Seamus — Mon, 04 May 2020 06:26:21 GMT

Hey @hiteknz,

There's nobody you can specifically talk to about this unfortunately - these sorts of major business decisions are made by business teams who manage wider company operations. We appreciate your enthusiasm and can pass your feedback up the chain, but we're not able to have a one on one discussion regarding the possibility of Square payments expanding to new countries. Sorry I couldn't be of more help here!