Remote point-of-sale? There’s an app for that

One beer flight, one snack bowl and a growler refill at Pateros Creek Brewing Co. in Fort Collins comes to $25.50. Taproom manager Brian Gilbert slides the customer’s credit card through the company’s Square credit card reader and, in doing so, pays Square 70 cents.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Square Inc. created an app that plugs into iPhones, iPads and Android devices to process credit-card and debit-card transactions and deposits money into individual or business bank accounts.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey developed Square in 2009 as a way for anyone to conduct business anywhere at any time. The product hit the market…