How can I accept other payment types in Square for Restaurants?

[sclhtim]

The normal Square POS system has the ability to take payment via cash and credit card, but also by check, Other Gift Gift Card or Certificate, Cash App, Other Payment Type, etc.

My Square for Restaurants POS seems to only allow Cash and Credit Card payment types.

How can I accept other payment types using Square for Restaurants??

**** Please do not answer this if you do not use Square for Restaurants. Please do not tell me "Just go to Settings > Checkout > Payment and change the settings" because THOSE SETTINGS DO NOT EXIST IN SQUARE FOR RESTAURANTS ****

[TheRealChipA · Accepted solution]

Hi @sclhtim.  This is going to sound totally weird and off base, but it works.  First, I have no idea why we can’t enable and disable payments types on Restaurants as we can on POS, but the fact is we can’t, at least not that I’ve found.  However, see the circled text in the screen shot below.  This is from the POS help article, and it states that when we make changes to payment types in the regular POS app, these changes are account-wide — that they will be changed on all devices.

So, if you don’t have it, download the POS app and make your changes there.  Then force quit your Restaurants app and restart it.  Your changes should be there.  It works for me, anyway.

Lastly, note that currently Restaurants doesn’t allow pay by payment link, pay by QR code, or pay with Cash App.

I hope this works for you like it does for me. 

[sclhtim]

Everything you said worked. Hopefully others facing this very annoying issue will find this and find their solution too.

(Sorry it took so long to mark you as the correct answer!)

[VicRCT]

can i do an invoice from the pos or do i need to do it in the back office we are doing a lot of our customers are doing a Harvest which we normally write in a book but i would like to keep it all on the restaurant pos is that possible 

[Arie]

Hi @VicRCT, 

I've merged your post to this thread where another seller answered this question. Check out the best answer and let us know how you go! Once you've enabled Invoices as a payment type, you'll be able to use it directly via the Square for Restaurants app. 

[VicRCT]

Hi Arie I didn't sound quite clear our contractors come in at least twice a day i would like to keep adding what they get to an invoice and send at the end of the week just so the contractors know what their workers are buying, at the moment we keep adding the food to a saved bill and then printing it out at the end of the week which sometimes is as long as your arm taking a picture and then sending it with a completely different app as the invoice with restaurant won't let you take a saved bill and progress to an invoice you have to manually put everything in. hope this makes sense.

[MayaP]

Hey @VicRCT I appreciate you reaching out and are happy to help but I’m not sure I fully understand your question. Whenever you have a moment, please reply to this email with a little more information describing your technical issue or question. I’ll be sure to follow up as soon as possible.

[VicRCT]

Hi MayaP

we have customers that come in at least twice a day and put their food on a tab I would like to add what they get all week to an invoice at the end of the week some Tabs or saved bills when printed are half a metre long where I have to take a photo and send to a invoice app I would love to send the saved bill to the invoice and send all through square

[MayaP]

Thank you @VicRCT for clarifying. This would be a feature request, this a a great suggestion I would submit this request on the Ideate Board, our new process of tracking for feature requests.  At this time I do not have any workarounds but I will tag some super sellers who can provide their expertise, @Candlestore @Donnie-M @LLCafe. Feel free to reach out if you need anything else. 

[TheRealChipA]

@MayaP  Wouldn’t the newly released House Accounts give @VicRCT the functionality they want? 

@VicRCT check that link out.  Basically House Accounts allows you to close transactions to a house account, and then send an invoice on a regular basis.  The invoice will include all transactions closed since the last statement was sent.  You can set a maximum limit you want on each account, as well.

[VicRCT]

This is exactly what I need but I'm in Australia I cannot find it in support or payments, but I will be asking the question tomorrow thank you so much for your help. 

[TheRealChipA]

@VicRCT I didn’t realize you were in AU. Unfortunately I don’t think it has been released there, yet. My apologies for getting your hopes up