A Comprehensive Guide to Square Payments Links

▤ Summary

This guide explains how to create and use Square payment links and how they pair with Square Checkout to collect payments across channels without building a checkout system. It highlights features like fixed or variable pricing, one-time or recurring payments, QR code generation, custom fields for reconciliation, and PCI compliance. The article emphasizes benefits for finance teams—real-time visibility, unified reporting, and integrations with accounting tools such as QuickBooks and Xero—and provides step-by-step setup instructions. It also outlines Wise Business payment links for receiving cross-border payments in multiple currencies and how both tools can streamline collections and reporting.

▦ Linked Companies

FreshBooks

$25M to $50M

PayPal

$1B+

Zoho

$1B+

Xero

$1B+

Square

$500M to $1B

Wave (Wave Financial)

$50M to $100M