Thanks for posting this, @Minxies1967 ! We, too, own a food truck business, offer online ordering, and would like to offer delivery options. But, working the DELIVERY part is such a pain in the butt because, like @JJ_ mentioned, you have to change your address for your LOCATION each day you're out. We let it go for now - not worth the trouble with the way it has to be managed.
Online order ahead for events suffers from a similar problem because the open/closed hours are tied to LOCATION, which has one address. When we have multiple events lined up for a week and want to get some orders early, our work around to avoid folks ordering for the wrong address or date was to create LOCATIONs named by the days of the week (e.g., Saturday Spot, Sunday Service, Tuesday Tacos). We then adjust their addresses and hours so it shows up on our ordering page: https://mexitrachos.square.site/ . Then we just🤞🏽 & 🙏 that no one orders for the wrong week since you still can't set a date, LoL (BTW, to reduce that problem a bit, I set the RESTRICTED DATES to show a couple of the subsequent weeks as "closed" if we aren't going to be in the same place that following, e.g., Saturday.) Still clunky, gets old really quick, and is not so useful for those times we're just out with the truck because the weather is nice, etc. Mostly, we use other sites/POS services that are more oriented around Events and your Calendar instead of Location. But, anyway, I digress
As for your printer question, we use the STAR Micronics WSP-i350 Bluetooth printer with our iPad. Both our online orders and orders we enter on the tablet automatically print tickets. You do need to connect the printer (e.g. in the Square Point of Sale app: SETTINGS > HARDWARE > PRINTERS) and set up the tickets as well - e.g. we have it just print the chef/kitchen ticket and not the little number stub. Oh, note, this particular printer doesn't work with Square on Android - there's a list of printers in the Square help somewhere. Oh, and also note, if you do set up different LOCATIONS, I believe you have to be logged into a location for online orders to print out in real-time. That is, if we are logged into our Saturday Spot and someone places an online order for the Sunday Service, it isn't going to print out and get mixed in with the current nights orders. Which is good in that example, but bad if you forget to logout of one LOCATION and into the correct LOCATION.🤣
Anyway, you've probably figured all of this out by now, but maybe others will find it useful. I would love to have one of the Communities focused on food trucks or mobile food vendors - I keep searching.
Happy Trucking! 🍛🚛🧑🏽🍳
