![]() ![]() ![]() If you don’t like that, you can log into the Square dashboard, go to the digital receipts section, and select ‘Don’t automatically send me any digital receipts’. Any card with that card number, regardless of the name on the card, will receive automatic receipts for purchases made at Square merchants to the initial email provided.” If you provide an email address, you’ll start receiving automatic receipts delivered by Square at that email address for all purchases you make from Square sellers using the same card. Here’s the secret: The first time you checked with a store that uses Square, and agreed to an emailed receipt, Square associated your email address with your credit card.Įxplains Square, “After your first purchase at a Square seller, you’ll have the option to provide your email address or phone number if you would like to receive digital receipts. If you look a little more closely at the email, either at the “from” header, or else waaaaay down at the very bottom of the email, you may recognize that it came from Square.īut these are the only two mentions of Square anywhere in the receipt so unless you are in the habit of reading your email headers more closely, or of scrolling all the way to the bottom of an email, you would miss these clues.Įven if you did realize that the email actually came from Square, you may still legitimately wonder how your email address came to be associated with an receipt from this particular store. So you are to be forgiven if you are wondering just how the hell the store got your email address. Your tips via CashApp, Venmo, or Paypal are appreciated! Receipts will come from ISIPP. ![]() We recommend that you use a tagged email address for this purpose (if you aren’t sure how to do that, read our article Track Who is Sharing Your Email Address by Using Tagged Addresses).The Internet Patrol is completely free, and reader-supported. This time, put the new email address in, and it will become the email address associated with your credit card. The next time you pay for something with a merchant who uses Square, it will prompt you again to add your email address (because you removed the one that was associated with your credit card). If your goal is to change your email address with Square, rather than to completely remove it, you need to take one additional step: Either way, you will no longer receive email from Square. Note that we have no idea whether Square actually completely removes your email address from their system, or whether they just decouple it from your credit card. If your goal is simply to remove your email address, then you are done. What this does is uncouples, or disassociates, your email address from your credit card number. This will immediately bring you to this page: But trust us, click on ‘Not your receipt?’ Instead, click on ‘Not your receipt?’ Yes, it’s not intuitive, because it is your receipt, you just don’t want them using the email address to which they sent it. Once you have that, scroll down to the bottom, where you will see:Īt this point you may be thinking that ‘Manage preferences’ would be the place to change or remove your email address, but you would be wrong. In order to change your email address (or remove it) you will need one of the emailed Square receipts. Here’s how: How to Remove or Change Your Email Address with Square The Internet Patrol is completely free, and reader-supported. And, in fact, you don’t need one to change your email address. Now, you might think that in order to change that email address, you would need to log in to the Square website, into your account.Įxcept, unless you yourself are a merchant, it’s very unlikely that you actually have a Square account. So every time you use that credit card with a merchant who uses Square, it sends a receipt to that email address unless you tell it specifically to not send an emailed receipt. ![]() On Square’s end, that email address is associated with the credit card that you used. (For a more detailed explanation of that process read How the Heck did Square Get My Email Address.) At some point upon completing some transaction via Square, you said “yes” to having an emailed receipt, and into Square’s database your email address went. Then you were asked whether you wanted your receipt emailed to you. First, here’s how Square got your email address in the first place: at some point in time, somewhere, you used your credit card to pay for something, and it got swiped through the Square reader. ![]()
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