Round-up option for non-profit donation

[pljcs]

Square, please add this right away.  I have been asking you all for this for literally years (as a nonprofit ourselves, we would like to give patrons an option to round up to donate to us), but businesses also need the option to help local charities.  When change is in short supply as it is now, this is even more important than ever.  It's undoubtedly a simple option to add, and most of your competitors have it.

Thank you!

[Joe]

Hi there, @divineresale 👋 Thanks for reaching out to us here on the Seller Community!

Currently, there is no formal way to round up sales in real time. However, I've gone ahead and merged your post into an existing thread of Sellers who were also looking for information regarding rounding up transactions.

Take a look at this Best Answer from this same thread, it will provide some extra context here.

[Anne2]

In addition to a designated button on the app, I would also like to see it possible to be able to link it to the recipient of the the round up amount, for example a non-profit organization.  This would mean that the seller wouldn't need to be responsible for forwarding funds.  I hope this makes sense.

[niceytreat]

Please offer this ability so customers can donate to charities of our choosing. Now more that ever this is needed and is becoming common place.

[nika]

Hear you on this one @niceytreat. I merged your post to a thread where we're actively keeping track of others who are wanting this feature. Hopefully we can give some good news here if it ever becomes available.

[CatskillsVC]

We just started with Square and it's so disappointing this isn't available yet! We have seen great success with similar programs elsewhere and assumed it would be part of the system. I know with physical store sales we can go in manually and add a donation, so that's better than nothing, but what about online sales? Is there any simple workaround that would allow online customers to round up, or to add a small donation that they choose to their order?

[isabelle]

Hey @catskillvc! 🐈 

I'm going to lean on some of our Super Sellers to see if they have any suggestions 🌟 @alexandriak @bagelboss @Dbw2048 @Donnie-M @GoGoGuest @GourmetOnWheels @HC_Charlie @homeprogreen @JamesSandbar @jjgard @LocavoreStore @londontea @MAXSDELI @MichiganFarmsta @pessosices @pieous @porktaco @Ravenssong69 @ryanwanner @sugarlab @TheTShirtLady @VanKalkerFarms 

[homeprogreen]

I know for in-store transactions you can enable the tip function and just name it donation. Haven’t played with the online stores but one possible solution that comes to mind would be to add an item called donations with either a selection of different amounts or if possible a variable amount. Again I haven’t played with the online store so no clue if that would work. Not possible with the existing system to have it automatically round up and send the funds to someone else’s account though

[WhiskeyCharlie]

I know others want this also.  Just a quick easy way to round the total to the next whole dollar. Make it non-taxable option and a line item on report for donating to charity. Let’s go Square!

[Joe]

Hi there, @WhiskeyCharlie - I've gone ahead and merged your post into an existing thread of Sellers who were also looking for information regarding this Feature Request. Once we have an update for everyone, we will roll back here and give a heads up once we're live.

Thanks for taking the time to write in! 

[jstemma]

I would also love to see an option available so we could opt to round to the nearest nickel/dime/quarter to do away with pennies in our establishment!