Sandbox 101: Locations API

Locations represent the sources of orders and fulfillments for businesses. When a seller signs up to become a Square merchant, they provide core business profile information that describes their business.

In the Square API, some customer-related interactions (such as taking payments, issuing refunds, and managing inventory) must be attributed to a specific location in the API call. Your software should honor the seller’s existing locations, and might optionally create new locations for its own use.

In this tutorial, we show you the basics around using our Locations API, like creating a location, updating a location, and retrieving a location.