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Automated Digital Fullfilment by 3rd Party

curiousdustin — Tue, 16 May 2023 20:28:12 GMT

I would like to know if Square has a way for my company to develop a solution that would automatically fulfill an order of a digital item sold by another company at a retail location.

Here is the scenario we would like to create if possible.

There are 2 businesses involved.

Business A is a software development company.
Business B is an event center location that already uses Square to sell physical products and admission to their location.

A patron arrives at Business B, and along with paying for admission, they also purchase a digital item that Business B is selling, but Business A is fulfilling.

When this item is purchased, Business A's backend API is notified, and asked to fulfill the order. To fulfill the order, the API generates a unique code, and sends it to a phone number or email provided by buyer at time of purchase to Business B.

This code is then used by the patron to unlock content within a mobile app created by Business A.

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So to put it another way, using tools provided by Square, is there a way for one business to sell an item at a retail location, that will by automatically fulfilled by another company in a digital manner?

Re: Automated Digital Fullfilment by 3rd Party

faheem — Tue, 16 May 2023 21:54:40 GMT

@curiousdustin you might want to try our developer forums as well (https://developer.squareup.com/forums/)

Are you imagining these orders would be entirely/mostly placed on the website? Or that they would be mostly placed in-store and entered on the point of sale system?

Re: Automated Digital Fullfilment by 3rd Party

curiousdustin — Tue, 16 May 2023 22:06:13 GMT

Ideally they could come from anywhere.

However, the specific scenario we would like to develop for first is that the order is placed in a real world retail location, like you said.