{"id":1279,"date":"2011-04-17T06:22:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T13:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2011-04-17T06:22:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T13:22:40","slug":"got-some-open-loop-gift-cards-sign-up-for-a-square-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"Got some open-loop gift cards, sign up for a square account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/squareup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/square.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1280\" title=\"square\" src=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/square-275x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/square-275x300.png 275w, http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/square.png 757w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/squareup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Square<\/a>, the mobile payments system that uses a small (yes, square) attachment for an iPhone, iPad, or Android phone to swipe credit cards for payment, appears to be an ideal device and system for draining your open-loop cards.\u00a0 There is no monthly or annual fee, and swipes cost a flat 2.75%.\u00a0 Account signup and approval seems to be pretty streamlined and at the end of the day, the money is transferred to your bank account.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to be the perfect way to get the last few $$$ from your open-loop gift card.\u00a0 Or better yet, drain them when you get them so they won&#8217;t drain themselves with fees once you forget about them.<\/p>\n<p>Better yet, get Square and become the open-loop hero by helping all your friends drain their gift cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Square, the mobile payments system that uses a small (yes, square) attachment for an iPhone, iPad, or Android phone to swipe credit cards for payment, appears to be an ideal device and system for draining your open-loop cards.\u00a0 There is no monthly or annual fee, and swipes cost a flat 2.75%.\u00a0 Account signup and approval [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}