Square recently released an improved, redesigned card reader. Current Square users will need to request a new one.

A new Square Reader appears to be on the horizon, capable of letting users tap to pay directly on the device itself.

Combined with Square’s app and payment-processing service, which charged a flat rate per transaction, the reader let even the smallest of small businesses easily take plastic for the first time.

If you want to buy a new chip-enabled Square Reader, it will be available for pre-order later this year. What are your thoughts about EMV chip-based cards versus magnetic stripe credit cards?

The Square Reader, which uses a card swipe to make transactions, has now been followed by Square's contactless and chip card reader, which launched in Australia Tuesday.

Square today announced that it has updated its original free Square Reader for Magstripe with a new Lightning connector, so sellers with the iPhone 7 and above will no longer need to use an ...

Square is now offering a device that also accepts payments made from an iPhone---and it's going on sale at Apple stores.

Dorogusker says Square’s Reader is a smaller, more secure — and at $29, cheaper — alternative for those who need to take payment from the newer cards.