Can I use a standalone cash drawer with Square Terminal?

[WOW1]

I want to buy the square terminal for my wine bar but I don't have a USB cash drawer.  Can I use just any stand alone cash drawer for cash payments?  

[pessosices · Accepted solution]

As long as you're fine with it not opening automatically, yup, you can use any cash drawer.

We use a Push To Open manual cash drawer that's not hooked up to our Registers, and we love it!

Here's the one we use:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014G8TQK6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[EMW]

Thank you, this is great for off site sales but how do you set it up in Square then.  It shows as no cash drawer and will not end the day or give any reports on it.  It states "No cash drawer".

Thanks.

[ashc]

Hey @EMW! Welcome to the Community.

Unfortunately if the drawer isn't directly connected to our Hardware through a POS system there won't be a way for it to show up in the app.

You'd have to keep track of the drawer outside of the app reporting-wise unless you connect have a POS setup with us where it's directly connected. 

[EMW]

Thank you, I just thought I would tell me the sales totals and let me "fake" open a drawer.

[ashc]

@EMW Sure thing! I see what you're saying. 

[Mother]

Thanks for asking this. I wanted to do the same thing but there is no way to do it. Hate having to manually reconcile every day. Wish there was a way to do this.