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If you ask me, this looks like the kind of thing that could revolutionize mobile payments as we know it.

See https://squareup.com/

Starting today, Square aims to make credit card sales as easy for retailers with an iPhone as it is for some dude selling a couch on Craigslist.

With Square, anyone can accept credit or debit card payments by downloading the app and plugging a little plastic cube into the headphone jack of an iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, or Android phone. After a quick swipe of the card through the reader, the merchant turns the device over to the customer to sign his or her name on the touchscreen using a finger instead of a pen. The customer can add a tip, either by percentage or a particular amount, and then enters their phone number or email address. In the best case, the receipt message will buzz in the customer's pocket as an email or SMS text message while walking away with their purchase.

Customers are charged as usual by their banks or credit card companies, and Square settles up the net funds with merchants each night instead of at the end of the month. The swiper and application are both free and include access to an online dashboard with analytics that help merchants track exactly what they've been selling.

"With Square the goal is to get people in immediately, and make the transaction as smooth and simple as possible," says Jack Dorsey, the brains behind Square and the cofounder and chairman of Twitter.
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Source: http://www.fastcompany.com/1643271/...r-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch-android-credit-cards

I just downloaded the app on my Motorola Droid, now waiting to be verified to receive my card reader. Looks like they need to run a credit check on you first (a bit of a downer there, because frequent credit checks are known to actually lower your credit score) but personally I'm OK with it.

What do you guys think?

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