Square has gone global. The mobile payments startup announced in London on Thursday (Nov. 20) that its Square Register point-of-sale suite is now available worldwide and supports four languages and 130 currencies.
But the international version of Register can’t yet accept credit and debit card payments through Square’s plug-in Reader or Square Stand, which currently only work in the U.S., Canada and Japan. Square has reportedly been in talks with merchant acquirers and others in the payment processing chain in Europe for at least six months, according to TechCrunch.
The internationalized versions of Square Register are free and available through Apple’s App Store for iOS and Google Play for Android. The app comes in English, Spanish, French and Japanese.
Like the payments-powered versions, the new app provides a cloud-based point-of-sale system, with sales tracking, inventory management, digital receipts, an analytics dashboard, and support for receipt and kitchen printers, cash drawers and bar code scanners. The Square App Marketplace, which offers business apps that integrate directly with Register, is also now accessible worldwide.
Square has also begun taking orders in the U.S. for an EMV chip-and-PIN version of its Reader, which is expected to ship early in 2015. The U.S. version of the EMV Reader will reportedly use signatures instead of PINs, but if (or, more likely, when) Square launches payment processing in Europe and other areas, it’s expected to add PIN support as well.
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