[BETA] New Square for Restaurants Early Access Experience
The new Square for Restaurants point of sale experience is designed to give your business a simple way to manage all orders, whether they are in-person, online or third-party delivery orders. As part of this new experience, we've introduced a New Orders tab, scan to pay, combos, and more.
Beta POS Device Set Up
From your Square Online Dashboard , head to Release Manager.
In the new Order & Pay capabilities module, you will see a preview of what is available for testing.
Click Manage next to Devices enabled
Click Enable more devices and select all the devices you are using with Square for Restaurants.
Click Continue.
Click Enable.
Restart your device.
Not all Restaurant POS features are supported at this time, including:
Reopen and Keep
Connected Terminal
Tap to Pay (using NFC on Phone)
Item Level Move (iOS Only)
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New Square for Restaurants FAQs
We are working quickly to bring all existing functionality to the new Beta POS. As we complete work for each feature, we’ll launch into this beta program. You can expect features to continue to launch into 2025 but we will share specific updates via email and the Beta Seller Community group.
Any features listed in the Unsupported Features table above would be disabled at this time. If you are seeing something that does not match that table or you aren’t sure, please reach out to post directly in the Bar Tabs Beta Group or email us at betafeedback@squareup.com.
Yes! We’d encourage this to give you an easy way to test the new Beta POS without too much disruption to service. However, if you are using both an existing POS and a Beta POS, please note that bills will not sync between the two devices so if you open a bill on one, you will not be able to see/pay for it on the other.
Order Manager FAQs
You can sort bills by Bill name, Time created, Order total and Server name. Just tap Sort, select how you’d like the bills sorted and select the criteria to organize them (high to low or low to high).
You can sort self-serve orders by Table ID, Customer name, Time created or Order total. Just tap Sort, select how you’d like the bills sorted and select the criteria to organize them (high to low or low to high). You can also filter by a specific Station ID by tapping Filter, selecting Station ID and selecting the station(s) to filter by.
You can sort bills in the Paid view by Bill name, Time created, Time paid, Order total and Server name. Just tap Sort, select how you’d like the bills sorted and select the criteria to organize them (high to low or low to high). You can also filter by Server Name or Order Source. Tap Filter, select Server name or Order Source and then the values you want to filter by for each.
Not at this time. Bills will automatically contain all bills and tabs created on the POS and Online will automatically contain any Square Online orders or any integrated ordering partners.
You can enable the Online section on the POS device by going to Square Online Dashboard > Devices > select the POS device > Toggle on ‘Manage Online Orders on Point of Sale.’
Your POS device will continue to store orders that were updated the last time you had an internet connection. You can continue to search, sort and filter orders across the Bills, Self-serve, Online and Paid views while offline. You can search orders across all tabs using any of the following information that might be available on them: bill name, employee name, last 4 digits on card used to pay, customer name, etc.