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Learn about integrating Square APIs for business operations in JavaScript. Gain hands-on experience with payment workflows, order creation, and invoice generation to enhance financial services.

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Square offers digital payments and financial services to its customers. Developers can integrate Square APIs to help businesses grow. This course provides a strong foundation for integrating Square APIs for business operations. In this course, you’ll first get an introduction to Square APIs and the different endpoints it offers. Then, you’ll be provided with a step-by-step guide on how to sign up for an account and retrieve the API key. Next, you’ll get a hands-on guide on using payment, order, and invoice APIs. You’ll use these APIs to complete the purchase and payment workflow as these usually require creating an order, generating an invoice, and finally paying. Square takes care of all of it with just a few API callS. By the end of the course, you’ll get practical experience with an e-commerce web application integrated with Square APIs. After completing the course, you’ll be able to implement different payment workflows and handle various financial services with ease with Square APIs in JavaScript.

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

Familiarity with various Square APIs for business operations

An understanding of order creation and retrieval mechanisms using Square API

The ability to generate and update invoices

A working knowledge of making, recording, and refunding payments using Square API

Hands-on experience integrating Square APIs in a React application

Familiarity with various Square APIs for business operations

Content

17 Lessons

Introduction

2 Lessons

Get familiar with integrating Square API for managing orders and financial operations.

Introduction to the Course

Getting Started with the Square API

Square Business APIs

2 Lessons

Unpack the core of managing Square seller data with Merchants and Locations APIs.

The Merchants API

The Locations API

Manage Payments

4 Lessons

Work your way through managing, retrieving, completing, canceling, and refunding Square API payments.

Create a Payment

Retrieve Payments

Cancel or Complete Payments

Refund a Payment

Process Orders

3 Lessons

Enhance your skills in generating, retrieving, and paying for orders using Square APIs.

Generate Orders

Retrieve Orders

Pay for Orders

Handle Invoices

2 Lessons

Take a closer look at managing and retrieving invoices using the Square API in JavaScript.

Create an Invoice

Retrieve Invoices

Square SDK

2 Lessons

Tackle integrating Square SDK for efficient e-learning transactions and API calls.

Getting Started with Square SDK

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APIs Integration in React

1 Lessons

Practice using React to integrate Square APIs in an e-commerce application.

Demo Application

Conclusion

1 Lessons

Learn how to use Square APIs to integrate Payments, Orders, and Invoices in JavaScript.

Wrap Up!

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

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