{"id":9513,"date":"2013-01-27T04:53:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T12:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=9513"},"modified":"2013-01-27T04:53:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T12:53:23","slug":"square-user-agreement-on-surcharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2013\/01\/27\/square-user-agreement-on-surcharge\/","title":{"rendered":"Square User Agreement on Surcharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/squareup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Square<\/a> might be revising their <a href=\"https:\/\/squareup.com\/legal\/ua\" target=\"_blank\">User Agreement<\/a> on Surcharge as merchants in the United States and U.S. Territories will be permitted to impose a surcharge on consumers when they use MasterCard or Visa credit card starting <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/credit-card-surcharges-may-start-sunday-know-202200783--finance.html\" target=\"_blank\">January 27, 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Network Rules currently prohibit you from (a) assessing a surcharge for the use of a Card in connection with any transaction, or (b) dispensing cash on any Card transaction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice the word &#8220;currently&#8221; in the user agreement. Square might have to revise their User Agreement to comply with the new regulation.<\/p>\n<p>California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma and Texas have laws in place limiting or prohibiting merchants from adding surcharge to credit card transaction.<\/p>\n<p>Screen capture of Square User Agreement was taken on Sunday January 27, 2013 04:00 a.m. Pacific Time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Square-Applicable-Network-Rules.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Square-Applicable-Network-Rules\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Square-Applicable-Network-Rules.jpg\" width=\"592\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Square-Card-Register.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Square-Card-Register\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Square-Card-Register.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Square might be revising their User Agreement on Surcharge as merchants in the United States and U.S. Territories will be permitted to impose a surcharge on consumers when they use MasterCard or Visa credit card starting January 27, 2013. Network Rules currently prohibit you from (a) assessing a surcharge for the use of a Card &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2013\/01\/27\/square-user-agreement-on-surcharge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Square User Agreement on Surcharge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[779,1983,2796,936,3130],"class_list":["post-9513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-credit-card","tag-mastercard","tag-square","tag-tech","tag-visa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-2tr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}