Contactless & Chip Reader Rollout in Japan

[Chazawa]

Are there any plans to rollout support for the "Contactless and Chip Reader" in Japan?

https://squareup.com/shop/hardware/us/en/products/chip-credit-card-reader-with-nfc

Thanks!

[SQ大竹-Otake · Accepted solution]

Hello, @Chazawa- san, thank you for posting your question!

We are aware that a lot of our sellers are hoping to use this Square Contactless and Chip Reader in Japan too! At this point, we do not have any specific information that can be released to the public yet but we would like you to know that we are working on very hard to make this happen!

We will notify everyone via our website or email if we have any update on this.
Sorry for not being able to answer clearly but stay tuned! 😊

[SQ-Yus-畑中 · Accepted solution]

Hi @Chazawa @khorii_2001 

We are happy to annouce that the new Contactless Readers are now available in Japan! We have sent an email out with the subject line, "新しいSquare Reader、登場。". Please check your email for further details. 

Cheers!

[SQ大竹-Otake · Accepted solution]

Hello, @Chazawa- san, thank you for posting your question!

We are aware that a lot of our sellers are hoping to use this Square Contactless and Chip Reader in Japan too! At this point, we do not have any specific information that can be released to the public yet but we would like you to know that we are working on very hard to make this happen!

We will notify everyone via our website or email if we have any update on this.
Sorry for not being able to answer clearly but stay tuned! 😊

[Chazawa]

Thank you @SQ大竹-Otakesan. We look forward to hearing from Square Japan about this in the future!

[khorii_2001]

I also need activation of NFC reader in Japan urgently, because we have Olympic Games Tokyo, 2020, so we have to go accept NFC payment like Apple Pay for comming traveller from abroad Now. Thsi is our crying requst!!!!

[SQ大竹-Otake]

Thank you for your comment, @khorii_2001!

We make sure to pass your comments to our product team and please stay tuned for future updates!

[SQ-Yus-畑中 · Accepted solution]

Hi @Chazawa @khorii_2001 

We are happy to annouce that the new Contactless Readers are now available in Japan! We have sent an email out with the subject line, "新しいSquare Reader、登場。". Please check your email for further details. 

Cheers!

[Chazawa · Accepted solution]

@SQ大竹-Otake Hurray! Thank you! But didn't get your email.

[SQ大竹-Otake]

@Chazawa
We are sorry to hear that you didn’t receive an email from us. We talked with the marketing team and they will make sure to send you an email within a day. Unfortunately it will be in Japanese 😣 so please do not hesitate to contact us if you are unsure about anything.