Square’s $399 Handheld accepts tap-to-pay at your table

The caller Square Handheld POS instrumentality is astir the aforesaid size arsenic a ample phone.

The Square Handheld is disposable contiguous for $399 with enactment for accepted paper transactions and tap-to-pay, scanning products, and managing inventory, each from a azygous device. That should bring tap-to-pay acceptance without an iPhone to much places successful the businesses and restaurants wherever you’re already utilized to seeing the Square Stand and different akin setups.

Weighing successful astatine 11 ounces (about 311 grams) and measuring little than an inch thick, Square says this is “one of the thinnest and lightest handheld constituent of merchantability devices connected the market.” That makes the Handheld easier to lug astir than Square’s wedge-shaped Terminal POS device, and provides immoderate contention for Clover’s $749 Flex system. 

The Square Handheld includes a splash and dust-resistant 6.2-inch touchscreen, a barcode scanner, and a 16 megapixel camera. Square says that the artillery provides capable foodstuff to “power done a full day.” Belkin is besides offering SheerForce protective cases for the Handheld starting astatine $39, which tin assistance businesses to amended tailor the instrumentality to their marque individuality and bolster it against damage.

Square has besides redesigned its POS app, giving the Handheld entree to 7 modes that tin beryllium customized with industry-specific features specified arsenic Quick Service mode, Bar mode, and Retail mode.