Charity on @Square (photo via Flickr)
I’ve seen more and more posts and pics of people using Square to fundraise for charity, which is fantastic. My wife recently hosted a Twestival event that help donate to places like Charity:Water. She had to handle all the money coming in, and then use her personal credit to pay to Twestival. This solution works, but there is definite room for improvement.
Helping further advance that opportunity for people to raise money would be for Square to offer optional profiles, allowing people who already have Squares to flip from taking money for themselves, or their business, to helping take donations. I have a square device and would have loved to have had the ability to add a Twestival, or Charity:Water profile to my Square app, and then any card swiped donations that I took would automatically be credited to the charities account directly.
