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[GS465]

We are in the process of migrating to Square Point-of-Sale and have a question about payment with gift cards.  We utilize two different color gift cards with our current POS system and we need to be able to distinguish these differently for our reporting as each gift card type ties to a different GL account on our financial report.  Is there a way to add a custom payment tender in the POS Register system to reflect the second gift card type?  We have purchased all of the new cards through ECardSystems and are currently in the testing phase.  I tried to do a search on here but came up empty.  If it isn't possible to add a tender type then is there a way we can distinguish it in the payment notes or something?

[HC_Charlie]

Helllo @GS465 thanks for your post. I do not think you can distinguish between different types of gift cards; they would hit your Square account as just "gift card" no matter what the design or color is used to try and create two different accounts for your GL. There is a button under Payment Types in your POS setting, that says "Other gift card of certificate". I'm not sure if you have that toggled on, if you can use that to separate the gift cards. I think when ever you swipe any ECard system gift cards it will just be identified as gift card, even if you toggle on the "other gift card" option.

Perhaps another Square seller would have more experience separating out gift cards by GL accounts, and could offer you a better solution or idea here.

[GS465]

Thank you for the additional information.  Currently with our existing POS system we have to hand-write on the receipt if it's for gift card type 1 or type 2, and then we manually process our end of day report with the receipts.  We were hoping to get away from handwritten receipts with that information but if Square can't support it then we'll just have to keep it manually.  Hopefully another Square seller has some suggestions.