Create and share payment links
About payment links
Square Payment Links enable customers to purchase anything you want to sell online without creating an eCommerce website. You can create payment links to take payments, sell an item, sell an event or class or accept a donation.
You can send your customers a payment link through an email or let them purchase at their convenience by posting the link on social media or your blog. You can also offer a touch-free checkout experience through your Square Point of Sale. When you send a payment link from your Point of Sale, your customer will get a unique link on their phone they can use to pay without needing to enter PINs or install special apps.
Before you begin
Square Payment Links are only available for domestic sales.
Square Payment Links must be Active to be used. If you’ve previously shared a link with your customers, they'll be unable to complete a transaction with the link if you deactivate or delete it.
Create a payment link
You can create payment links from your Square Dashboard or Square POS app. You can also customise Square Payment Links. If using a payment link to collect donations, learn how to set up donation goals with payment links.
- Sign in to Square Dashboard and go to Payments & orders (or Payments & invoices or Payments) > Payment links > Payment links.
- Click Create link.
- Choose either Collect a payment, Sell an item, or Sell an event or class and click Continue.
- Enter a Title for your link that will be displayed to the customer, a Frequency (either a one-time or recurring payment) if applicable, and an optional Description. If you’re selling an item or event/class, select the item from your item library or create a new one and add a price.
- Add an optional image by selecting Upload image.
- Optionally toggle on Custom fields and add up to two custom fields to collect additional information from customers.
- Optionally toggle on Tipping.
- Optionally toggle on Redirect to a website after checkout and enter a website URL.
- Click Save to start sharing your link.
- Sign in to the Square app and tap ≡ More > Payment links. If Payment links doesn’t appear, add it to your menu by tapping ≡ More > Add-ons > Payment links > Add for free.
- Tap +.
- Choose a payment link type.
- Enter a name, amount, and description for your link and choose any applicable options.
- Tap Save to start sharing your link.
Share a payment link
- Sign in to Square Dashboard and go to Orders & payments (or Invoices & Payments or Payments) > Payment links.
- Next to the payment link you want to share, click Share and choose your share option.
Share options include:
- Manually copy the link to share via your own channels.
- Create QR code. Download it to your files, display it anywhere and customers can scan it to pay you directly.
- Create a Buy button to embed the code to your website.
- Post to social media channels like Facebook and X (formerly Twitter).
- From your Square Point of Sale app, go to ≡ More > Payment Links.
- Tap the payment link you want to share, then tap Share link and choose your share option.
Share options include:
- Copying the link
- Sharing via text
- Creating a QR code to print
Note: You can also send payment links from the checkout screen of your Square Point of Sale by selecting Charge and tapping the Send Payment Link option. This will create a touch-free checkout experience so you don’t have to manage cash or cards.
You can send payment links directly to your customers via text message using Square Virtual Terminal from your computer. You can collect contactless payments from customers in real-time when they aren’t physically with you. To do so:
- Sign in to Square Dashboard and go to Orders & payments (or Invoices & Payments or Payments) > Virtual Terminal.
- Select Take a Payment.
- Add a custom amount to Quick charge or add items to Itemised sale.
- Add an existing customer or create a new one.
- Under Payment details, select Send payment link.
- Select your customer’s country code.
- Enter the customer’s phone number and click Send link.
- Your customer will receive a text message with a payment link.
- Wait for confirmation that the customer completed the payment.
Note: Selecting the back button while a payment is pending will cancel the payment link. You must wait until you receive the payment before closing the window.
Deactivate a payment link
You can deactivate and delete a payment link at any time. Once deleted or deactivated, the payment link will become unavailable to anyone you shared it with — this action can’t be undone.
- Sign in to Square Dashboard and go to Payments & orders (or Payments & invoices or Payments) > Payment links > Payment links.
- Select the payment link you want to deactivate or delete.
- Click Delete or Deactivate.
Payment links reporting
You can easily track the amount of sales generated from each payment link so you can track how links are performing. To view the amount of sales per payment link from your Square Dashboard, review the sales per link in the Total Sales column.
You can also view all of your sales in your online Square Dashboard in Reports when you filter by Source > Payment Links.