Accept Square
payments on Phoca Cart
Install the free PaymentHood plugin for Phoca Cart, connect your Square account, and Square appears as a payment option at checkout. No custom gateway code, and no second integration when you add another provider later.
- USD
- CAD
- AUD
- JPY
- GBP
- EUR
- Platform
- Joomla 4.0+
- Provider
- Square
- Install via
- Extensions → Manage → Install
- Billing
- One-time
- PaymentHood fee
- None
Square on Phoca Cart at a glance
- Joomla version
- Joomla 4.0+
- Where you install it
- Joomla admin → Extensions → Manage → Install
- Coverage
- Merchant accounts are available in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and Spain.
- Currencies
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- USD
- CAD
- AUD
- JPY
- GBP
- EUR
- Billing models
- One-time checkout payments. Recurring billing is not supported by the Phoca Cart plugin yet.
- Cost
- The plugin is free and open source. You pay Square's own fees, published on their pricing page (opens in new tab). PaymentHood adds nothing on top.
Coverage, currencies and payment methods as published by Square, who set and update them. For the current list see Square's own documentation (opens in new tab).
What Phoca Cart customers can pay with
Each method Square supports appears in your Phoca Cart checkout. Enabling one is a PaymentHood dashboard setting — nothing changes on the Joomla side.
Cards
Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover and JCB
Digital wallets
Apple Pay, Google Pay and Cash App Pay
Buy now, pay later
Afterpay where Square offers it
Connect Square to Phoca Cart
Four steps, no code. The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the Phoca Cart installation guide.
Open a Square account
Register with Square and finish their onboarding. Funds settle from Square to your own bank account.
Add it in PaymentHood
Paste your Square credentials into the PaymentHood dashboard. They stay server-side and never reach your storefront.
Install the plugin
Download the Phoca Cart plugin and install it from Extensions → Manage → Install in your Joomla admin.
Enable and test
Paste your PaymentHood API key into the plugin settings, run a sandbox order end to end, then switch to live.
Rather than a direct Square plugin
A single-provider plugin works until you need a second provider. These are the parts you would otherwise build and maintain yourself.
- Webhook security
- HMAC-signed event notification, verified before an order is released
- Payment verification
- Server-side payment status re-check against the Square API before fulfilment
- Credentials
- OAuth access token scoped to the merchant, held server-side in PaymentHood
- Add a second provider without touching your Phoca Cart checkout
- Automatic failover when Square is unreachable, instead of a failed order
- Idempotent charge creation, so a double-submitted order is not a double charge
- One reconciliation view across every provider you run
- Free and open source — read the plugin on GitHub (opens in new tab)