Set up your Square account
About creating your Square account
Square connects every aspect of your business, so you can focus on your customers. It doesn’t matter what you sell, Square has apps, features, integrations, and hardware, built to work together and simplify your day-to-day. Square helps you run your business — start accepting payments, onboard your team, generate robust sales and inventory reports, and reduce your administrative time. Getting set up with Square only takes a few minutes.
Before you begin
The steps in this guide are the setup instructions to create a Square account. If you already completed one of the steps, you can skip to the next one.
As a regulated financial services company, Square is required to verify the identity of anyone who wishes to use our payment services.
We are also required by regulation to verify the identity of any other business owners, shareholders, directors, partners and beneficial owners, as applicable. There is no way to activate your Square account to accept payments without all applicable parties completing verification.
If you get stuck at any point, contact our Customer Success team. You can get support at Square Monday through Friday between 9 AM to 5 PM, or reach us in the Square Community.
Step 1: Initiate Square account creation
- Visit the page squareup.com/signup.
- Enter your Email address, create a Password and select United Kingdom, then click Continue.
- Enter your Business name and select the kind of business you run, then click Start using Square.
Step 2: Tell us about your business
Provide basic information about your business such as your business name, type of business and business category. Learn more about how to choose your business structure.
Once the information has been entered, you will be directed to your newly created Square Dashboard. The following steps guide you on how to activate payments and set up your Square account.
Step 3: Onboard your business
When you sign up for an account with Square, you’ll be asked to provide additional information about your business. From your Square Dashboard, click Get Started next to Start taking payments. You'll be asked to provide additional information about your business. Start by selecting whether your business is an individual or sole trader or a company with a company registration number. You'll be asked to enter information such as your estimated annual revenue, your address and your phone number.
Step 4: Verify your identity
You’ll also be asked to provide personal information to verify your personal identity. Even if you plan on using Square as a business or organisation, to create a Square account you must provide this information.
As a regulated financial services company, Square is required by regulation to verify the identity of any other business owners, shareholders, directors, partners and beneficial owners, as applicable.
Verification status
Once you have finished signing up for your Square account, you can check your verification status from the Setup Guide in your Square Dashboard.
Step 5: Link your bank account
Before you receive your first transfer from Square, you need to add a verified bank account to your Square account. Learn how to link and edit your transfer methods.
Step 6: Set up transfer options
After you activate your Square account and link a bank account, transfers are automatically sent per our Next Day schedule. Learn how to customise your close of day.
Step 7: Order Square hardware
If you already selected and received Square hardware, you can skip to the next step.
Square has POS hardware to help you and your team members to check out customers and accept payments quickly. Visit Square Shop to order your hardware.
Step 8: Create your item library
As you add your business details to Square, you can create, edit and manage items from your item library in Square Dashboard. Learn how to create and edit items.
Step 9: Set up your team
When you’re ready to start selling, make sure that your team members are too. Learn how to add and manage team members.