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.
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.
...
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?
@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?
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.
Square Community