Plan availability: Free. Square-powered checkout is Free. Advanced payment methods and controls use separate Pro or Scale entitlements. The active production feature matrix is authoritative if an administrator changes an entitlement.
Use Payments for how money arrives
Open Payments to connect Square, choose the payment location, review card readiness, enable manual methods, and set payment method priority.
Use Checkout for what customers agree to
Open Checkout Settings for fulfillment, fees, shipping, delivery date/time collection, deposits, tipping, reminders, terms, and payment-plan behavior.
Common problems
- Changing payment display order does not necessarily change the initial selected payment method.
- A connected Square account may not be card-ready.
- Shipping, delivery, deposits, and tips can be independently gated even when Square checkout works.
Ask a question once per order
Create an active form with the Checkout questions purpose in Forms. In Checkout settings, select it under Checkout questions and save. Customers answer once per cart order, and the answers appear on the order details page.
Use this for order-wide information such as how the customer found your business. Product instructions belong on a product form. This applies to cart checkout, including initial subscription checkout; digital-download and market amount-only checkout are separate flows. Checkout answers are stored with the order, not in the website form submission queue.
Next steps
Keywords
Payments, Checkout Settings, Square, payment methods, fulfillment settings, checkout configuration