Customise payment types on Square Point of Sale
About payment types on Square Point of Sale
You can customise the checkout screen on your point of sale app by toggling and reordering what payment types are available at checkout. To keep your payment records in one place, you can also record and track cash, cheques, gift cards from Square or third-party services, and other types of payments.
Before you begin
By default, each payment type will be enabled, including record-keeping payment types such as cash and cheque.
Any edits made to one device will reflect on all other devices linked to that location, including devices using Square for Restaurants or Square for Retail.
There is no fee to accept cash, cheque, or other tender payments like third-party gift cards.
When you accept cash, cheque, and other tender types, Square doesn’t process any funds and functions only as an organisational tool for recording purposes. Money for these transactions are exchanged directly between you and your customer and will not be transferred by Square.
Customise payment types
From the navigation bar on your point of sale app, tap ≡ More.
Tap Settings > Checkout > Payment types.
To rearrange, drag and drop by tapping and holding the six dots (⋮⋮) next to the payment type name.
Toggle off a payment type to remove it from your checkout screen.
Use the Preview button at the top of the screen to preview your new checkout screen.
You can re-add the payment type at any time by scrolling down to Disabled payment types and dragging it back up to Main payment types.
Available payment types
Accept cash payments.
When you accept this payment type, Square doesn’t process any funds and functions only as an organisational tool for recording purposes. Money for these transactions are exchanged directly between you and your customer and will not be transferred by Square.
Charge a customer’s card on file if your customer has provided written authorisation to store their payment card.
Enter an eGift Card or physical Gift Card number to accept Square Gift Cards.
Manually entered card details to accept payments without Square hardware.
Record a payment made using a third-party gift card or certificate.
When you accept this payment type, Square doesn’t process any funds and functions only as an organisational tool for recording purposes. Money for these transactions are exchanged directly between you and your customer and will not be transferred by Square.
Record a cheque payment.
When you accept this payment type, Square doesn’t process any funds and functions only as an organisational tool for recording purposes. Money for these transactions are exchanged directly between you and your customer and will not be transferred by Square.
Create a touch-free payment link for fixed rate items and share with your customer via SMS, email, or your preferred communication tool.
Record a payment using another payment type.
When you accept this payment type, Square doesn’t process any funds and functions only as an organisational tool for recording purposes. Money for these transactions are exchanged directly between you and your customer and will not be transferred by Square.
Create a Square Invoice in the point of sale app.