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!

[GlassJudy]

The only thing I'm not sure of is the non-taxable part.  Rounding up wouldn't be subject to sales tax, but it should be subject to income tax as unearned income.

[PamClemmons]

Is there a "round up" option to allow customers to donate to charity by rounding up their sale to the nearest dollar? 

[Kassi_]

Hey there, @PamClemmons - 

Thank you for reaching out about this feature. Unfortunately, there isn't an option to add the"round up" amount to the total. 

I moved your post to a Feature Request thread where other sellers have spoken up about this. Also, @VanKalkerFarms provided a workaround you could try. 

Keep an eye out for Product Updates for new upcoming features!

[DaoDeJing]

The United States used to have a half-cent coin. It was discontinued in 1857, because inflation had made its value so low as to not be worth bothering with.

However, when they discontinued the half-cent it was worth the equivalent of 15 cents today. So perhaps the United States should now do away with not only the one cent "penny", but nickels and dimes as well!

Multiple businesses in my area are starting to round cash transactions to the nearest quarter, and customers universally love it. It'd be great if Square offered a setting that does this for us automatically.

As far as the line item figuring of it, perhaps the register could add a "cash surcharge" or a "cash discount" as appropriate, to bring the total up or down to the nearest $0.25 increment. Just a thought.

[AshleyK]

Thanks for reaching out! I've merged your post with an existing thread so we can keep all of these requests in one place. Let me know if you have any other questions. 🙂

[Joe]

Hi @plijcs - thanks for flagging this up to us once again. We can confirm that round-up options during checkout remains a Feature Request. You can learn more about development and processes on these type of requests here. 

Should anything come down the pipeline, we will reach back out here and let you know. Cheers!

[bushhead311]

You know Joe, it would really be a great Christmas present from Square 🙂 

Seems like a super-easy way to get some great publicity by just coding this into the next hardware update and then all you have to do is start pointing to stories as communities give via the round up feature! 

[Joe]

I definitely agree, @bushhead311! We can do our best to push it up the pipeline, and we will let you know ASAP as soon as something comes available.

Cheers! 

[bushhead311]

I made a twitter to tell Jack. 🙂 

[divineresale]

How do I round up a sale to the nearest dollar on Square?

Right now I add it in my head.