Beta Invitation | House Accounts 🎉

[danitza]

Hello Seller Community! 

We are currently accepting more sellers into our House Accounts Beta program! With house accounts, you can deliver a more convenient experience by creating a running bill that customers can pay later with automatic invoices.

Benefits of this feature: 

• Check out like any other sale
  Simply charge the purchase to the customer’s house account on your POS so the sale gets recorded and inventory gets updated automatically.
  
• Get paid on time
  Set up recurring invoices to send on schedule so customers can easily pay their balance online with a credit card or ACH payment.
• Manage and track accounts easily
  Set spending limits and lock, unlock, or archive, archive accounts quickly from your Square Dashboard or point of sale.

Interested? 😉
You can request to join House Accounts Beta by clicking the button below and joining the House Accounts Beta Community group. 

Join House Accounts

Note: Currently available in US only.

[blacklabimaging]

This would be a great feature, something we used a lot when we had Quickbooks Point of Sale. 

Our company works with a lot of trade-ins and we purchase equipment from our customers for resale, sometimes our customer just want store credit for their stuff but we currently don’t have an integrated way to track this.

In Quickbooks we were able to take an item in on the POS, it would be instantly added as an inventory item that we could then later sell. So we had a complete history of the cost we bought it at, the customer’s credit for that item and then the ability to resell it without having to create a whole new item since it was created at the time of taking it in. 

Anyway, house accounts would be great addition.

[danitza]

Hi @blacklabimaging, I'm glad to hear House Accounts will be a great addition to your business! 

[amjessey]

Still in US only?

[jmdaus]

This is a regular occurrence with square. 
apparently no one else exists outside the USA. 
shortly you will get the message stating that it will be opened shortly to other countries. This won’t happen. 
Gotta love how square are still happy to take our money like the USA but not give everyone the same features. 
I am still waiting for the live shipping integrations that the USA have. 

[danitza]

Hi @amjessey and @jmdaus, yes this Beta is currently available in the US, but with the hopes to expand to other locales.  I'll make sure to share this feedback with our product team. 

[amjessey]

I hope in this House Accounts there will be a way to accept 'payments to account' which can then be used to credit subsequent sales (Invoices, POS, Online). 

[danitza]

Hi @amjessey! Thank you for your feedback. There is a way to pay partial amounts by opening the invoice on the point of sale or in dashboard, clicking add payment, and selecting the corresponding amount you'd like to Invoice. 

[amjessey]

Hello @danitza 

Is this method you describe applicable to this beta only or Square in general?

I'm not sure if you understand correctly - we actually need a way to regularly record clients' payments to their accounts (without the sale of any goods) which can then be subsequently allocated to invoices to tender goods sold at a later date.   

[danitza]

Hi @amjessey, sorry! I see what you mean now. The ability to have your clients make payments to their accounts without the sale of any goods it is not available at this time. This is a feature request that has been asked by other sellers. I'll make sure to share your feedback with our product team. Thanks for sharing! 

[amjessey]

I hope they've read the various posts on the request dotted around. There are a few!