SquareUp Integration
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As a leader in social blog content, and SquareUp being a leader in the ever expanding small business sales and marketing industry, I would like to see WordPress directly support the SquareUp embeds. They are currently directly supported by Facebook and Twitter.
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I have never heard of SquareUp and you sound like an advertiser to me. lol :D
WordPress.com blogs cannot be equipped for eCommerce transactions unless they have the $299. per year annually renewable Business upgrade. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/ecommerce-is-now-available-on-wordpresscom?replies=1
See here for ecommerce details http://en.support.wordpress.com/ecommerce/Otherwise, provided you are selling only what you yourself make or a service that you personally provide you have two options.
(1) Know that the only instructions that will work for posting a PayPal donation button on a WordPress.com blog are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/(2) If you set up an Ecommerce site somewhere else online you can create a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ and include a custom link to that site in it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links
Some bloggers create a contact form and after the people have made a PayPal donation they provide the link to a private page for downloading files. Maybe that will work for you.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/The only advertising program at WordPress.com is called WordAds and it’s for blogs on their own domains.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
http://en.wordpress.com/apply-for-wordads/Advertising outside of WordAds at WordPress.com is not allowed.
http://support.wordpress.com/advertising/ Here’s what gets a blog suspended:
http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
http://en.wordpress.com/tos/1. WordPress.com allows bloggers to insert text affiliate links within post and page content to most third-party affiliate programs, provided they are not the primary content of the site in question.
2. Image affiliate links in posts and pages and any banners, affiliate links in sidebar or footer widget areas, are still considered to be advertising and are not allowed on WordPress.com blogs.
NOTE: Aside from the plugins I linked to for Ecommerce blogs with the Business upgrade only, there is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability on any free hosted WordPress.COM blogs, and there is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality.
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I’m not an advertiser. I have a blog that is connected to my business. I’m not certain what country you live in, but here in the United States the little tiny Square is a mainstay of the small business. It attaches to our cell phone and allows us to do credit card authorizations.
SquareUp.com is the site that supports the functionality of the Square device and allows me to easily create content from my inventory and with a simple click of a button I can embed a link for one of my items with my facebook page or on my twitter feed.I don’t have to pay facebook or twitter anything extra, since they aren’t supporting the e-commerce side of this.
I can do this manually on my blog site, all I have to do is copy and paste the embed code (losing the script link, since WP won’t save that) and then add my image in and I essentially have the same thing. This way of doing it is just a little tedious.
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Hi again,
I live in the greatest country on the planet and that’s Canada. :)My husband and have a successful small business (over 30 years) old and we operate without any website, cell phones, or social networking at all. Our products are all hand made and they sell themselves by word of mouth due to satisfied customers.
Good luck with having your idea approved.
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