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Life & fun · July 30, 2014

Square for Chip Cards

EMV & chip-compatible dongle from Square, pre-launch

Square for Chip Cards launched on July 30, 2014 with 81 votes, #540 of 2,263 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

What it does

Europay, Mastercard, and Visa (EMV) is a chip technology that enhances credit and debit card security. Learn how it works and help protect your transactions.

Millions of companies use Square to take payments, manage staff, and conduct business in-store and online. EMV, or chip cards, are a more secure type of credit card that uses chips to encrypt bank information, making them more secure than magstripe cards. In this guide, we’ll explain what EMV is, how credit card chips work, liability shifts for fraud, what it means for your business, and how to protect yourself and accept EMV cards and NFC payments. EMV chip technology — developed and managed by American Express, Discover, JCB, Mastercard, UnionPay, and Visa — is a global standard for credit cards that uses computer chips to authenticate (and secure) chip card transactions. EMV (Europay,…from squareup.com

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