Square Payment Module for Zen Cart [Support Thread]

[Congerman]

Do you know if this is just UK?

Square did not say but emailing them would probably clarify for you

[edadk]

When receiving payments via Square, the credit card owner line is blank on the order details screen. Also, when viewing the transaction on Square, the credit card owner line is also blank. Is this the way it's supposed to work?

[mvstudio]

When receiving payments via Square, the credit card owner line is blank on the order details screen. Also, when viewing the transaction on Square, the credit card owner line is also blank. Is this the way it's supposed to work?

I didn't realize this could be the reason why on my square's account all transactions say Unknown. Has anyone figure out how to add the credit card owner field to the form?

[DrByte]

... on my square's account all transactions say Unknown. Has anyone figure out how to add the credit card owner field to the form?

The customer's name is transmitted with the payment, but Square doesn't display it in their dashboard.

I think getting it to display requires injecting your customer into your Square account whenever a sale is made, then linking an order to that customer, and then linking the payment to that customer+order. That's gonna require a notable reworking of the Square module. It's on the radar but no date has been set for working on that yet.

I'm prepping for an update that improves other underlying components to be compatible with Square's latest updates. This update will also increase some of the data transmitted, but I don't expect it will fix the "Unknown" label you mentioned.

[todoonada]

Great work on the Square module! Thank you!

When Square is updating their API (which they did quite often in 2019), can I usually update without worrying or is there a good chance that the Zen Cart module will not work anymore?

[DrByte]

Great work on the Square module! Thank you!

When Square is updating their API (which they did quite often in 2019), can I usually update without worrying or is there a good chance that the Zen Cart module will not work anymore?

Zen Cart can only implement the features it knows about, which is done in conjunction with the actual API SDK files distributed with the module. You could find yourself having problems if you mismatch them.

[mvstudio]

The customer's name is transmitted with the payment, but Square doesn't display it in their dashboard.

I think getting it to display requires injecting your customer into your Square account whenever a sale is made, then linking an order to that customer, and then linking the payment to that customer+order. That's gonna require a notable reworking of the Square module. It's on the radar but no date has been set for working on that yet.

I'm prepping for an update that improves other underlying components to be compatible with Square's latest updates. This update will also increase some of the data transmitted, but I don't expect it will fix the "Unknown" label you mentioned.

Would it be possible to display a field in the form instead? that way we store owners could also verify that information when processing the order. We had some quite serious problems in the past 2 years where a few of our customers were using their spouses/ex-spouses/boyfriends credit cards without their authorization (or so the credit card owners claimed) to place orders on our website, which we had to refund as they ended up being unauthorized. We lost the products and the funds, so not cool. Having a field in the form to verify the name on the card would at least provide a certain level of security for merchants (somewhat).

I looked into the square developer and I found (not that I even pretend to know anything about it) a the cardholder_name parameter https://developer.squareup.com/refer...-customer-card
Could this be incorporated?

Thank you for all you do, and for looking into this.

[dennisns7d]

ZC 1.5.5f
PHP 7.1.33
MySQL 5.7.23-23
Square 0.97

I've got a cron job that runs on odd numbered days to refresh OAuth. It's been running quietly for months. A bit over a week ago, it's been triggering the following error:

[19-Dec-2019 00:00:02 America/Los_Angeles] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Class 'square' not found in /*****/********/public_html/mystoredomain/square_handler.php:21
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
  thrown in /*****/********/public_html/mystoredomain/square_handler.php on line 21

I've verified that the cron is running PHP 7.1.33.

My host changed how they serve up PHP on December 17 that bumped the PHP version my cart used to 7.3, which triggered numerous errors/warnings. I went into the control panel and backed PHP down to 7.1.33. I've been getting the cron triggered errors since then.

I haven't done any significant changes to the cart in this time frame. Square payments are being processed normally.

I would appreciate any thoughts and suggestions on how to fix this.

[dennisns7d]

I've tracked down the reason that the cron job triggers the error reported in my last post.

It appears that with the latest host changes that $PHP_SELF and (most?) $_SERVER variables are empty when the script is run from cron. The code in includes/classes/payment.php failed to find the square payment module because it extracts the script type (.php) from the $PHP_SELF variable.

My patch to get around this problem was to set $PHP_SELF to __FILE__ if $PHP_SELF was empty in square_handler.php near line 13:

require 'includes/application_top.php';
if (empty($PHP_SELF)) $PHP_SELF = __FILE__; // ensure that $PHP_SELF is not empty
require DIR_WS_CLASSES . 'payment.php';

All seems well now.

[DrByte]

The customer's name is transmitted with the payment, but Square doesn't display it in their dashboard.

I think getting it to display requires injecting your customer into your Square account whenever a sale is made, then linking an order to that customer, and then linking the payment to that customer+order. That's gonna require a notable reworking of the Square module. It's on the radar but no date has been set for working on that yet.

Would it be possible to display a field in the form instead? that way we store owners could also verify that information when processing the order. We had some quite serious problems in the past 2 years where a few of our customers were using their spouses/ex-spouses/boyfriends credit cards without their authorization (or so the credit card owners claimed) to place orders on our website, which we had to refund as they ended up being unauthorized. We lost the products and the funds, so not cool. Having a field in the form to verify the name on the card would at least provide a certain level of security for merchants (somewhat).

I looked into the square developer and I found (not that I even pretend to know anything about it) a the cardholder_name parameter https://developer.squareup.com/refer...-customer-card
Could this be incorporated?

Thank you for all you do, and for looking into this.

As far as having that data show on Square's end, I believe it's tied to the same thing I mentioned earlier. I think it'll require creating the complete customer record in order to get any of that data to show in their dashboard.

I suppose you could add the custom field to the payment page and make sure the Order class stores it when saving the order, so that in your own Zen Cart admin screens you could access the cardholder name. Again, you wouldn't see it on Square's end though. You'd need to add cc_owner in the various parts of this section of the module: https://github.com/zencart/zencart/b....php#L166-L257 akin to what's done here in this one: https://github.com/zencart/zencart/b....php#L222-L318