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Is it possible to link transaction line items to sale transaction in Square pos API
I understand that the Square POS API does not currently support the ability for an external app to pass itemized line items when calling Square to process the payment. Is there a way for the external app to associate the itemized details with the completed sale transaction in Square via an API after the payment is completed and square returns control to the external app?
Are there specific plans to provide support for itemized transactions within the POS API?
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asked Jan 2 at 18:18
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I understand that the Square POS API does not currently support the ability for an external app to pass itemized line items when calling Square to process the payment. Is there a way for the external app to associate the itemized details with the completed sale transaction in Square via an API after the payment is completed and square returns control to the external app?
Are there specific plans to provide support for itemized transactions within the POS API?
square-connect square pos
asked Jan 2 at 18:18
Mike MooreMike Moore
72511017
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I understand that the Square POS API does not currently support the ability for an external app to pass itemized line items when calling Square to process the payment. Is there a way for the external app to associate the itemized details with the completed sale transaction in Square via an API after the payment is completed and square returns control to the external app?
Are there specific plans to provide support for itemized transactions within the POS API?
square-connect square pos
asked Jan 2 at 18:18
Mike MooreMike Moore
72511017
I understand that the Square POS API does not currently support the ability for an external app to pass itemized line items when calling Square to process the payment. Is there a way for the external app to associate the itemized details with the completed sale transaction in Square via an API after the payment is completed and square returns control to the external app?
Are there specific plans to provide support for itemized transactions within the POS API?
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I need exactly the same answer as Mike. I am getting annoyed because the checkout API creates line iteams and links them to a sale. I coded the entire checkout process only to realise Square were too stupid to check if a customer exists already and always create a duplicate. You cannot tell square not to do so.
Annoyed, I went and wrote the front end including error checking for the transaction API as I was told by the square team this was the way forward, now I have the same issues as Mike in that the square backend cannot tell me what was ordered.
There must be a solution. I am so annoyed at the poor documentation and lack of real life solutions provided by the API. It is also a lot of my time which has been wasted and now reading the above solution I am at a loss. I am contemplating changing our restaurants to another system so I can code a real backend for our admins and a real front end for our web users.
Sorry for the rant, it is extremely frustrating!
answered Jan 9 at 20:39
dean williamsdean williams
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There's no way to formally do this currently, and there's no current timeline or guarantee that it will be released for the POS API.
It's possible to link it via the Orders API in a workaround. Basically, prior to initializing the transaction, you would call CreateOrder with the items in the order. The response would give you an Order object, which you can retrieve the order_id from. Then, you can pass in the order_id into the notes field when creating the POS API request. This would allow you to at least look up the itemization later on (by utilizing BatchRetrieveOrders) for each of the POS API transactions.
Furthermore, if you are going further and utilizing your own database, then you wouldn't even need to pass in the order_id to the note field, as you could just link the order_id and transaction_id in your own database for easy lookup later.
References:
https://docs.connect.squareup.com/more-apis/orders/overview
https://docs.connect.squareup.com/api/connect/v2#navsection-orders
answered Jan 3 at 16:23
sjoseysjosey
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thanks for the suggestion. The problem is that if I am unable to link the line items in the order to the Square sales transaction, the item detail will not be available to the Square reports and I will not be able to get itemized sales breakdowns. Is there anyway to solve that problem?
– Mike Moore
Jan 3 at 18:30
In for comments. I'm trying to pass the items DB ID from our server to the API and retrieve it on the callback to update the line item as paid. So far I'm unable to do so
– quick_learner42
Feb 17 at 5:38
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I need exactly the same answer as Mike. I am getting annoyed because the checkout API creates line iteams and links them to a sale. I coded the entire checkout process only to realise Square were too stupid to check if a customer exists already and always create a duplicate. You cannot tell square not to do so.
Annoyed, I went and wrote the front end including error checking for the transaction API as I was told by the square team this was the way forward, now I have the same issues as Mike in that the square backend cannot tell me what was ordered.
There must be a solution. I am so annoyed at the poor documentation and lack of real life solutions provided by the API. It is also a lot of my time which has been wasted and now reading the above solution I am at a loss. I am contemplating changing our restaurants to another system so I can code a real backend for our admins and a real front end for our web users.
Sorry for the rant, it is extremely frustrating!
answered Jan 9 at 20:39
dean williamsdean williams
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add a comment |
I need exactly the same answer as Mike. I am getting annoyed because the checkout API creates line iteams and links them to a sale. I coded the entire checkout process only to realise Square were too stupid to check if a customer exists already and always create a duplicate. You cannot tell square not to do so.
Annoyed, I went and wrote the front end including error checking for the transaction API as I was told by the square team this was the way forward, now I have the same issues as Mike in that the square backend cannot tell me what was ordered.
There must be a solution. I am so annoyed at the poor documentation and lack of real life solutions provided by the API. It is also a lot of my time which has been wasted and now reading the above solution I am at a loss. I am contemplating changing our restaurants to another system so I can code a real backend for our admins and a real front end for our web users.
Sorry for the rant, it is extremely frustrating!
answered Jan 9 at 20:39
dean williamsdean williams
162
add a comment |
I need exactly the same answer as Mike. I am getting annoyed because the checkout API creates line iteams and links them to a sale. I coded the entire checkout process only to realise Square were too stupid to check if a customer exists already and always create a duplicate. You cannot tell square not to do so.
Annoyed, I went and wrote the front end including error checking for the transaction API as I was told by the square team this was the way forward, now I have the same issues as Mike in that the square backend cannot tell me what was ordered.
There must be a solution. I am so annoyed at the poor documentation and lack of real life solutions provided by the API. It is also a lot of my time which has been wasted and now reading the above solution I am at a loss. I am contemplating changing our restaurants to another system so I can code a real backend for our admins and a real front end for our web users.
Sorry for the rant, it is extremely frustrating!
answered Jan 9 at 20:39
dean williamsdean williams
162
I need exactly the same answer as Mike. I am getting annoyed because the checkout API creates line iteams and links them to a sale. I coded the entire checkout process only to realise Square were too stupid to check if a customer exists already and always create a duplicate. You cannot tell square not to do so.
Annoyed, I went and wrote the front end including error checking for the transaction API as I was told by the square team this was the way forward, now I have the same issues as Mike in that the square backend cannot tell me what was ordered.
There must be a solution. I am so annoyed at the poor documentation and lack of real life solutions provided by the API. It is also a lot of my time which has been wasted and now reading the above solution I am at a loss. I am contemplating changing our restaurants to another system so I can code a real backend for our admins and a real front end for our web users.
Sorry for the rant, it is extremely frustrating!
answered Jan 9 at 20:39
dean williamsdean williams
162
answered Jan 9 at 20:39
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There's no way to formally do this currently, and there's no current timeline or guarantee that it will be released for the POS API.
It's possible to link it via the Orders API in a workaround. Basically, prior to initializing the transaction, you would call CreateOrder with the items in the order. The response would give you an Order object, which you can retrieve the order_id from. Then, you can pass in the order_id into the notes field when creating the POS API request. This would allow you to at least look up the itemization later on (by utilizing BatchRetrieveOrders) for each of the POS API transactions.
Furthermore, if you are going further and utilizing your own database, then you wouldn't even need to pass in the order_id to the note field, as you could just link the order_id and transaction_id in your own database for easy lookup later.
References:
https://docs.connect.squareup.com/more-apis/orders/overview
https://docs.connect.squareup.com/api/connect/v2#navsection-orders
answered Jan 3 at 16:23
sjoseysjosey
64126
thanks for the suggestion. The problem is that if I am unable to link the line items in the order to the Square sales transaction, the item detail will not be available to the Square reports and I will not be able to get itemized sales breakdowns. Is there anyway to solve that problem?
– Mike Moore
Jan 3 at 18:30
In for comments. I'm trying to pass the items DB ID from our server to the API and retrieve it on the callback to update the line item as paid. So far I'm unable to do so
– quick_learner42
Feb 17 at 5:38
add a comment |
There's no way to formally do this currently, and there's no current timeline or guarantee that it will be released for the POS API.
It's possible to link it via the Orders API in a workaround. Basically, prior to initializing the transaction, you would call CreateOrder with the items in the order. The response would give you an Order object, which you can retrieve the order_id from. Then, you can pass in the order_id into the notes field when creating the POS API request. This would allow you to at least look up the itemization later on (by utilizing BatchRetrieveOrders) for each of the POS API transactions.
Furthermore, if you are going further and utilizing your own database, then you wouldn't even need to pass in the order_id to the note field, as you could just link the order_id and transaction_id in your own database for easy lookup later.
References:
https://docs.connect.squareup.com/more-apis/orders/overview
https://docs.connect.squareup.com/api/connect/v2#navsection-orders
answered Jan 3 at 16:23
sjoseysjosey
64126
thanks for the suggestion. The problem is that if I am unable to link the line items in the order to the Square sales transaction, the item detail will not be available to the Square reports and I will not be able to get itemized sales breakdowns. Is there anyway to solve that problem?
– Mike Moore
Jan 3 at 18:30
In for comments. I'm trying to pass the items DB ID from our server to the API and retrieve it on the callback to update the line item as paid. So far I'm unable to do so
– quick_learner42
Feb 17 at 5:38
add a comment |
There's no way to formally do this currently, and there's no current timeline or guarantee that it will be released for the POS API.
It's possible to link it via the Orders API in a workaround. Basically, prior to initializing the transaction, you would call CreateOrder with the items in the order. The response would give you an Order object, which you can retrieve the order_id from. Then, you can pass in the order_id into the notes field when creating the POS API request. This would allow you to at least look up the itemization later on (by utilizing BatchRetrieveOrders) for each of the POS API transactions.
Furthermore, if you are going further and utilizing your own database, then you wouldn't even need to pass in the order_id to the note field, as you could just link the order_id and transaction_id in your own database for easy lookup later.
References:
https://docs.connect.squareup.com/more-apis/orders/overview
https://docs.connect.squareup.com/api/connect/v2#navsection-orders
answered Jan 3 at 16:23
sjoseysjosey
64126
There's no way to formally do this currently, and there's no current timeline or guarantee that it will be released for the POS API.
It's possible to link it via the Orders API in a workaround. Basically, prior to initializing the transaction, you would call CreateOrder with the items in the order. The response would give you an Order object, which you can retrieve the order_id from. Then, you can pass in the order_id into the notes field when creating the POS API request. This would allow you to at least look up the itemization later on (by utilizing BatchRetrieveOrders) for each of the POS API transactions.
Furthermore, if you are going further and utilizing your own database, then you wouldn't even need to pass in the order_id to the note field, as you could just link the order_id and transaction_id in your own database for easy lookup later.
References:
https://docs.connect.squareup.com/more-apis/orders/overview
https://docs.connect.squareup.com/api/connect/v2#navsection-orders
answered Jan 3 at 16:23
sjoseysjosey
64126
answered Jan 3 at 16:23
sjoseysjosey
64126
answered Jan 3 at 16:23
sjoseysjosey
64126
answered Jan 3 at 16:23
sjoseysjosey
64126
64126
thanks for the suggestion. The problem is that if I am unable to link the line items in the order to the Square sales transaction, the item detail will not be available to the Square reports and I will not be able to get itemized sales breakdowns. Is there anyway to solve that problem?
– Mike Moore
Jan 3 at 18:30
In for comments. I'm trying to pass the items DB ID from our server to the API and retrieve it on the callback to update the line item as paid. So far I'm unable to do so
– quick_learner42
Feb 17 at 5:38
add a comment |
thanks for the suggestion. The problem is that if I am unable to link the line items in the order to the Square sales transaction, the item detail will not be available to the Square reports and I will not be able to get itemized sales breakdowns. Is there anyway to solve that problem?
– Mike Moore
Jan 3 at 18:30
In for comments. I'm trying to pass the items DB ID from our server to the API and retrieve it on the callback to update the line item as paid. So far I'm unable to do so
– quick_learner42
Feb 17 at 5:38
thanks for the suggestion. The problem is that if I am unable to link the line items in the order to the Square sales transaction, the item detail will not be available to the Square reports and I will not be able to get itemized sales breakdowns. Is there anyway to solve that problem?
– Mike Moore
Jan 3 at 18:30
thanks for the suggestion. The problem is that if I am unable to link the line items in the order to the Square sales transaction, the item detail will not be available to the Square reports and I will not be able to get itemized sales breakdowns. Is there anyway to solve that problem?
– Mike Moore
Jan 3 at 18:30
In for comments. I'm trying to pass the items DB ID from our server to the API and retrieve it on the callback to update the line item as paid. So far I'm unable to do so
– quick_learner42
Feb 17 at 5:38
In for comments. I'm trying to pass the items DB ID from our server to the API and retrieve it on the callback to update the line item as paid. So far I'm unable to do so
– quick_learner42
Feb 17 at 5:38
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