Orders from third party

[Zeynep]

I am a restaurant owner and I take orders from third parties like Uber and DoorDash. How do I record these sales that come in from third parties even though I don’t get paid for them right a way. 

[ryanwanner]

What I do with DoorDash is have my team close out the DD order to the Other tender type after each order.

I then have a daily spreadsheet in the back that I enter all of our sales data for the day, including the doordash sales. These get recorded into Quickbooks in a General Ledger entry. When DD pays in, we consider it just like a credit card entry, where the DD commission fees and tablet rental fees are taken out of the deposit.

We used to keep the DD ticket open until we saw the DD payment hit the account to keep the accounting a little easier, but since DD started changing their deposit days, it didn't work that well. Having the DD tickets closed daily helped keep it straight in Quickbooks.

[PitmasterPaul]

Have there been any updates to this question? Is it possible to add a tender option besides "other" for these transactions?

[Joe]

Hi there, @PitmasterPaul - thanks for adding your voice here. Good to hear from you again!

No update to share on this feature just yet. The suggestion from @ryanwanner will continue to be your best workaround here. 

[PitmasterPaul]

Thank you Joe.

Somewhat related to this, can I accept tips using the "other tender"? With the suggested work around, I'd still want to be able to separate out tips from the transactions so my staff gets paid out.

[Joe]

Great question, @PitmasterPaul! In theory, this should be able to be done. We most third-party integration features, we recommend testing tip taking on a test transaction before implementing it into your checkout flow.