Thanks for replying, Tom!
For the gift card issue - Say someone has a check for 120$ and a gift card for 100$. The remainder they put on their card is 20$. The tip is calculated on the 20$ and not the total check amount.
I wouldn't even necessarily have this option on the check, but a glitch keeps reverting it back to a setting I don't care for. This is what's happening:
1. Settings>Signature and Receipt> Traditional receipt keeps changing to quick tip receipt
2. Settings>Employee Management> Password required keeps reverting back to not required, and the 30 second timeout keeps changing back to never
Is this because of another function overriding these settings?
As for the auto-gratuity- I would like to see it as a button that you could add at any point of the sale that would calculate a xx% tip based on the pre-tax total. This would then be added as a tip, and would be recorded as a tip on the final print out of the day's sales. I don't want "auto-gratuity" as an item sold or a tax. That messes up the book-keeping.
I want that as a separate line in the presented check to
1. avoid adding it as a tax
2. avoid hand writing the tip amount
3. avoid having the server calculate it with their own calculator
4. simplify the process with the signed traditional receipt
Thanks again for your response. The square interface has been excellent in many ways, but, like any POS system, there is always room for new functionality. -Eric, Slate Bleu Restaurant (Doylestown, PA)
