Can we send billing/shipping address to charge function without SquareUp redirected checkout?

[nkj79]

I am new to squareup api or rather using any payment gateway.

Can we send billing and shipping address or ordered items to square up functions when we are using our own payment page, not using squareup redirected checkout?

[readeral]

 If you're talking about utilising the Transaction API to create payments, you can chain together the Customers API endpoint and the Catalog Endpoint to:

1. create/update a customer (with personal contact information)

2. create an order (itemised with both your existing catalog items, and also ad hoc items)

3. pass the client ID and the order ID to the Transaction endpoint when taking a payment

The system is very flexible. You don't need to do all these things, but could choose to forego the customer and order API integration, and receive the address etc. via the transactions endpoint only.

[nkj79]

Okay, I am new here so want to know whats the benifit of using customer api with transaction api?