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Website button linking to store

opusthe2nd — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 20:20:20 GMT

Gee, I want a simple button to put on my website that says "buy now" or the such. Is there not such a thing for Square as there is for PayPal?

I have searched high and low, nothing that I can find.

Thanks

Re: Website button linking to store

ryanwanner — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 22:41:23 GMT

First, I'm going under the assumption that you have already set up an online store from your dashboard. Square does not allow for online sales "out of the box" unless the online store is activated.

If you do, head over to your online store settings. The URL is located here (usually squareup.com/store/yourstore). This URL can be copied and pasted into your web editor of choice to make a link to get your customers to your online storefront. This URL can also be used on your facebook page for an action button.

Unfortunately there isn't a direct way to advertise a specific product via an embed on your site right now. There are share options when you're looking at your online store from a customer standpoint, and you can copy and paste individual URLs of items when you open that item from the customer side of the site.

Hope this helps! 🙂

Re: Website button linking to store

opusthe2nd — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 22:52:23 GMT

Store is active, all thats done. I was just looking for a button that said STORE with a Square logo or such. Kinda like a "Buy It Now with Square" button, a shopping cart, a tin hat, dancing elephant, anything besides just an html link. 🙂

Re: Website button linking to store

ryanwanner — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 22:58:32 GMT

Surprisingly enough Square doesn't have any great internal ways to promote the online store. With that URL though any webdev worth their salt can get you a clickable link pretty quickly.

Re: Website button linking to store

opusthe2nd — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 22:59:25 GMT

Oh yeah, I can do that. Just figured they'd have something. Thanks for your help!