Will Square ever be able to accept Electronic Benefit Card (EBT) payments?

[MichaelJMutch]

Will Square ever be able to accept Electronic Benefit Card (EBT) (food stamps) payments?

[morageek]

We've been asking for 5+ years. It's pretty obvious, they can't or won't implement it.

[European-Foods]

We use Merchant Services and they gave us a free credit card processor. Also it is only about 1% fee, 3 times cheaper than square.)). It’s not all that difficult, you plug it into the network or get wireless, and directions very easy and fast. On the Square POS we enter payment as Other then enter EBT so we can track for taxes. Yes not easy or convient, but really not all that troublesome either. Also Merchant Services are extremely helpful to get you started. You just call them and they walk you through it and you do a sample charge on your own credit card to test. And technically you can use them for all your credit card and EBT services if want and save 2% which can add up to hundreds of $$ per month on a small store. 

[European-Foods]

TotilPay is not the answer and expensive. We use Merchant Services and they gave us a free credit card processor. Also it is only about 1% fee, 3 times cheaper than square.)). It’s not all that difficult, you plug it into the network or get wireless, and directions very easy and fast. On the Square POS we enter payment as Other then enter EBT so we can track for taxes. Yes not easy or convient, but really not all that troublesome either. Also Merchant Services are extremely helpful to get you started. You just call them and they walk you through it and you do a sample charge on your own credit card to test. And technically you can use them for all your credit card and EBT services if want and save 2% which can add up to hundreds of $$ per month on a small store. 

[amysrawhoney]

Just adding to the list here. Would be great for square to process EBT. 

[jbbjbb]

I'll add to the list, recently started with Square because of TotilPay enablement and supply chain issues on traditional pin pad terminals which blew up prior solution.  So we're primarily driven by EBT.  TotilPay will be interesting but expensive, and integration is decent, and already I'm looking at Cardknox which has an online EBT payment option.  Anyone have any experience there?

[StricksMeats]

Option to accept EBT directly with square hardware/CFD

We love the seamlessness of using square and that is why we've been a multi company customer for going on 10 years.

We love Square, please help us! The Totil Pay integration for EBT is terrible

[FourCornersMeat]

It would be much better if Square accepted EBT directly. The integration with TotilPay isn't that great...non-existent actually, so having to learn and use two different POS systems to run my business is very inconvenient.

[northropfarms]

I agree 100%.  We are a direct-to-consumer farm. It is a HUGE pain to switch between different apps.  We also take online orders.  It would be very beneficial if square would program their online check out process to be able to accept SNAP.  Square is definitely lagging behind on this.

[sayra]

Hello @FourCornersMeat - Thank you for your feature request. 

Your feedback and insight on this feature request is greatly appreciated. We can understand the inconvenience in this case. At this time, we are evaluating other potential solutions for EBT acceptance but cannot provide a timeline of when these other options will come available. Since this particular feature isn’t currently available on our platform, we have updated the status to “Open” so other Square sellers can chime in and add their use case. 

Have a great day.

[StricksMeats]

Direct integration for SNAP/EBT to be swiped at the CFD would be great.  We had to currently suspend our EBT sales due to constant issues/errors with Totilpay