thread Re: How to get buyers location information before payment? in Payments Troubleshooting

How to get buyers location information before payment?

Sneaky — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 16:28:37 GMT

Hello,

I am just learning the ropes of Square API. I am currently using google pay api and then sending the token to the backend using square API. I am a bit lost on the topic of applying tax correctly. I am from Canada. From my current understanding, I only charge tax on canadian buyers (and also based on their province), else I don't charge tax. (I don't have a nexus in US)

Now to figure out which province they are from, I believe I need to get it from the google token, but I can't figure out how. I think I can get it from client side and I guess I could send it to server, but you can't trust anything sent from the client side unless its cryptographically signed like the google token from google pay. So I was thinking to decode it and get the billing address from there, but I can't figure out how.

Does anyone have any advice for this?

Re: How to get buyers location information before payment?

Sammie_C — Fri, 09 May 2025 23:05:21 GMT

Hi @Sneaky! Thank you for reaching out. Welcome to the Square Community!

This is a great question. I went ahead and got this escalated over to our API team to see if they have any guidance on this. As soon as I hear back from them, I will reach back out here.

I am going to tag in a couple of our Canadian Square Champions, as well. Do you all have any insight on this, @LukeNieuw or @Michael_L?

Re: How to get buyers location information before payment?

LukeNieuw — Sat, 10 May 2025 14:59:46 GMT

Sorry guys I don't have any experience in this case.