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CASH TIP

CASH TIP

Having an option to add tip on cash payments,  just like with a card payment! Have a tip screen after the payment is finished. It is causing issues when small business like myself have to rely on tips in with my income so I can get approved to idk… Buy a house, get any type of loan. Get it together square. We literally pay for everything separately, the least you could do Is update some features. THANKS

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Re: CASH TIP

We'd also like the ability to add tips per cash transaction. We currently do a 5pm "close" for the next shift so we need the ability to know what cash tips are counted before 5pm and after 5pm. It's a bit frustrating to calculate the tips correctly.

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Re: Checks written over the amount charged.....

Welcome to the Community, @jrk7382, thanks for posting. 

 

I imagine this scenario comes up if your customer is adding a tip to their bill, correct? As opposed to paying the exact amount.

 

Currently there isn't the option to add tips on "Other Tender" payments, such as checks, but definitely see how this would be useful for reporting. As a workaround, I've seen other sellers suggest here to create a variably priced item - meaning you can add the price at the time of sale - called "TIp." This allows you to enter the amount separately from your total charge. 

 

Hope that helps, let us know if you have any other questions.

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Re: Can we account for tip jar cash tips in the Square daily sales reports?

I also discovered that there is a way to record cash in / out of the drawer.  It is in an odd place, under Reports (which is also where you Start and End a drawer to total it out).  That is usefull for something like "Hey Joe - Here's $20, go get paper towels!"  You could use it for tips, but I prefer the method we are talking about here because then you have a record of tips seperate from petty cash kinds of things that you would have a receipt for (e.g. Joe spends $12.45 and you put the receipt + $7.55 back into the drawer using the cash In option).  But you could use it for tips if it is a small shop. 

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Re: Can we account for tip jar cash tips in the Square daily sales reports?

@Ron - Great suggestion! 🙌  As a follow up, did you create a "Tip" item as well? 

 

@karl_f - You could make sure that there are no taxes enabled for this item. Also, you could also ring it in as "Other Tender" if you'd prefer. Alternatively, some sellers who use Cash Drawer Management also use the Paid In/ Paid Out feature to record tips.  

Ron
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Re: Can we account for tip jar cash tips in the Square daily sales reports?

We set up a TIP "category" and ring our jar tips up there. Hope that helps.

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Re: What is the proper way to enter a cash tip?

Hello! While I know this would be an incredibly useful feature for many merchants, we don't offer an official way to record tips for cash transaction. I have seen some merchants who use cash drawer management use the "Paid In" function to provide a record for these transactions. 


You can learn more about that feature here: https://squareup.com/help/us/en/article/5152-cash-drawer-management.

 

I'm happy to pass along your suggestion to our product liaison team. We're constantly working to improve our payment features based on the feedback we get from our sellers. 

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What is the proper way to enter a cash tip?

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Hello! While I know this would be an incredibly useful feature for many merchants, we don't offer an official way to record tips for cash transaction. I have seen some merchants who use cash drawer management use the "Paid In" function to provide a record for these transactions. 


You can learn more about that feature here: https://squareup.com/help/us/en/article/5152-cash-drawer-management.

 

I'm happy to pass along your suggestion to our product liaison team. We're constantly working to improve our payment features based on the feedback we get from our sellers. 

It would be great if there was a feature that service industry users could turn on to enable claiming cash tips before the employee could clock out.  Seems like a simple add on! Also, currently on the Square dashboard under Sales, one can only search hour to hour and not down to the minute. There should be an additional drop down with the minutes.  I need to see credit card tip ammounts for the exact time an employee was on shift.  Is there another way to see this?

Square

@TheRogueGrowler - Thanks so much for the feedback! It definitely sounds like this would be a useful feature. As for your question, it sounds like the Employee Sales Report would give you the information you're looking for. You can see exact employee sales (and tips).

 

Hope this helps! 

i personally use Homebase for all of my scheduling/ timeclock needs, separate company but works with square, they have an otion when the emplyee clocks out to claim all cash tips. love it!! there are other similar apps out there that work with square!

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Can we account for tip jar cash tips in the Square daily sales reports?

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We set up a TIP "category" and ring our jar tips up there. Hope that helps.

Do you then "charge" your tips as a cash sale to get them into the report?  That would be my assumption but just want to verify.

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Yes, exactly.

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My concern with that is I don't want to overstate (taxable) Sales by including the cash tips liability in Sales.