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Is there a way to queue phone orders in Square KDS?

I was wondering if there was a way to have my phone orders be queued in Square KDS by pick up time...

 

I own a restaurant and we take Phone orders, Online orders, and walk up orders. Square KDS seems to put the orders in sequence by pick up time, pushing the online orders that have a later pick up time in the correct place in line. But when a customer orders a phone order for a later pick up time, there is no way for Square KDS to recognize the later pick up time and puts it in queue. 

 

Is there someway to configure my phone orders so Square KDS can put it all in the correct order?

 

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I'm still working toward implementing Square KDS so I may be missing something but I've not found a way to do this on orders we take at the register, when a person wants it for later, via in-person or phone order. So, our hack is to have a tablet or phone always available near the register. When a phone order comes in we just go to our web-store (in our case 3rd party app) and place the order for the customer using their info and credit card details. This isn't ideal, it's clumsy, and an embedded option to schedule within POS or Register would be much better. But, it does work. 

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I like that work around. Hopefully, square and the engineering team can come up with something because I'm sure we aren't the only restaurants that can use this feature.  

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