Connect Square Terminal with Square POS
About connecting Square Terminal to your Point of Sale app
Square Terminal is a handheld POS device with a built-in receipt printer and a powerful battery designed to last all day with no wires.
You can connect Square Terminal to your Point of Sale app to use as a buyer-facing display and payment point.
Before you begin
To connect your Square Terminal to your Point of Sale app on a mobile device, you need a Square Terminal and access to your Point of Sale app. Your Point of Sale app can only connect to one Square Terminal at a time.
You can connect your Square Terminal to a mobile device in your Square Point of Sale app. Once your Square Terminal is connected, you can configure the settings. You have two options for configuring your connected Square Terminal settings:
Configure settings from Square Dashboard
Configure settings from Square Terminal
Access and configure the connected Square Terminal settings
You can access your settings on the connected Square Terminal whether it is paired to your Point of Sale app on a mobile device.
From the Powered by Square screen on your Square Terminal, swipe from the left-hand side of the screen.
You should see Checkout, Settings and Support.
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Under Settings, you can configure your:
Wireless network
Display and sound options
Accessibility for talkback or magnification
Printer
Other general settings, including date and time, device names and language.
Disconnect your connected Square Terminal
You can disconnect your Square Terminal by manually signing out of the connected Square Terminal or from your Point of Sale app on your mobile device:
- From the Powered by Square screen on your Square Terminal, swipe from the left-hand side of the screen.
- Tap Account > Sign out.
- You can always reconnect Square Terminal to Virtual Terminal on your computer at any time by re-entering the same device code or generating a new one.
- Open your Point of Sale app on your mobile device.
- Tap ≡ More > Settings > Hardware > Square Terminal.
- Tap Disconnect from this device.
- Tap Disconnect to confirm. Square Terminal will disconnect from POS automatically.
- If the disconnection fails, Square Terminal will continue to display the Powered by Square screen, and you’ll need to manually sign out by swiping from the top-left-hand side of the Square Terminal screen to reveal the menu, then tap Settings > Account > Sign out.