thread Re: Now that square does not sell magstripe reader. How will you swipe gift cards in Payments Troubleshooting

Now that square does not sell magstripe reader. How will you swipe gift cards

ahren180 — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 16:39:09 GMT

I understand that you can manually key in the gift card code, but that takes a while, and I know you can use a barcode scanner, but I don't want to be carrying around a barcode scanner. I really liked the idea using magstripe for gift cards are there any similar magstripe products that work with square, ideally one around the same size

Re: Now that square does not sell magstripe reader. How will you swipe gift cards

JJ_ — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 14:30:52 GMT

Hello there @ahren180

When checking out a customer that is using a Square gift card you are able to tap on the camera logo to scan the card using your camera instead of a barcode scanner.

I hope this information is helpful!