Quote Originally Posted by simon1066 View Post
This made me wonder. Having only ever used Square and PayPal EC to process credit cards, I've never looked at that configuration page - even after all these years.

Delving into the code I believe that only Authorize.net & PayPal Website Payments Pro use the checks set on that page and that they have no bearing on how Square processes payments.
The cc_validation logic that uses those settings is not used by the Square module because Square does all the card-validation itself, offsite, not in ZC.