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API Question - collect transaction IDs from multiple vendors and submit them together

abqdigital — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 22:01:27 GMT

Use case:

If I had an event with 2 different vendors, both using square POS, can the API support software with the following general spec:

customer receives product from vendor 1
vendor 1 submits API call with transaction ID (or temporary pre-transaction ID) to central database
customer receives product from vendor 2
vendor 2 submits API call with transaction ID to central database
customer approaches central payment processing point and their transactions IDS are brought up and submitted either
- 1) as a group; or
- 2) in a series
payment is processed

Any advice or current thoughts/solutions greatly appreciated.

Re: API Question - collect transaction IDs from multiple vendors and submit them together

Helen — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:44:03 GMT

Thanks for joining the Seller Community @abqdigital!

At this time there isn't a way to process a group of transactions, and I'm afraid it's also not possible to have multiple vendors contribute to an open order that can be processed with a single API call. I've shared this request with the API team.

Re: API Question - collect transaction IDs from multiple vendors and submit them together

abqdigital — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:59:43 GMT

Thanks - this is an important feature for event software we're designing. Is there a way I can get in touch with an API developer and run some potential workarounds/solutions by them? if we develop outside software that builds an array of orders and them submits them at once to Square via multiple vendors, is that a potential solution?

Would be great to be in touch with someone technical - thanks so much

Re: API Question - collect transaction IDs from multiple vendors and submit them together

Helen — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:57:28 GMT

Of course! You can contact the API Customer Success team directly and they'll be happy to help you with any available workarounds. Thanks for your patience!