Connect Square
If you already sell through Square, Flying School can take online card payments and in-person Square Terminal payments on your existing Square account. Money settles to Square as it does today - Flying School never holds your funds.
Square is enabled per account by Flying School support. If you do not see the Square card, ask support to turn it on.
Connect your account
- Go to Settings → Methods and find the Square card under Payment providers.
- Click Connect Square and sign in to your Square account.
- Approve the permissions Flying School asks for so it can create payments and read your locations.
- You return to Settings with Square connected. The card now shows Merchant and your business name.
- If your Square account has more than one location, pick the right one under Square location.
- Optionally set Square as your Default for online or Default for terminal if you also use Stripe or PayPal.
There are no API keys to copy. Everything is done through Square sign-in, and your Square secrets stay on the server.
Pair a Square Terminal
Once Square is connected and enabled, each location gets a terminal panel.
- Open the location under the Square card and choose Pair Square Terminal.
- Give the reader a Terminal label so staff can tell readers apart, for example
Front desk. - Choose Create device code.
- On the Square Terminal itself, enter the device code Flying School shows you.
Codes must be created here. A code you generate in the Square Dashboard will not work with the Terminal API that Flying School uses.
What Square covers
- Online card payments on staff invoices and on customer portal checkout - items, packages, events, courses, and booking deposits.
- In-person invoice payments on paired Square Terminal readers.
- Refunds against payments taken through Square.
What Square does not cover
- Your Flying School subscription. Platform billing always runs on Stripe.
- Recurring memberships, saved cards, and payment-plan auto-charge. Those are Stripe-only.
- Term enrolment checkout in the customer portal, which requires Stripe.
If you need memberships as well as Square, connect Stripe too and leave Square as your default for terminal.
Status labels
| Label | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Not connected | No Square account linked yet |
| Connected | Linked and taking payments |
| Disabled | Linked but switched off - your connection is kept |
| Server not configured | Square is not set up on this Flying School server; contact support |
Turn Square off or disconnect
Switching the card off stops Flying School using Square but keeps the connection, so you can turn it back on without signing in again. Disconnect removes the link entirely and Flying School stops using that Square account for online and terminal payments until you connect again.
See also Payment methods and Take in-person payments.