Create and manage taxes for Square for Franchises
About tax settings
With Square for Franchises, you can apply taxes to your online orders and create custom taxes with specific rules.
Before you begin
You can set all taxes through your Square for Franchises Dashboard. You can import taxes currently available in your Square Dashboard.
Create taxes
Sign in to your Square for Franchises dashboard, and select a location that is not your merchant-level location from the dropdown menu.
Select Menu Management > Taxes.
Click Add.
Search for an existing tax in Square by looking it up by its title or GUID, or create a new tax by adding a name and tax percentage.
Toggle on Apply to Menu.
Click Save.
Update taxes
If you change a tax rate in your Square Dashboard, it will not automatically update in Square for Franchises. You must manually update it by following these steps:
First, update the tax rate in your Square Dashboard.
Sign in to your Square for Franchises Dashboard.
Go to Operations > MenuManagement.
Select the Taxes tab.
Choose an existing tax rate to update.
In the GUID field, search for the updated tax rate from Square and select it from the drop-down menu.
Verify that the settings are correct.
Click Save.
This ensures tax rates remain accurate across both systems.
Delete taxes
In absence of an applicable tax, a default value will apply to all qualifying items.
Sign in to your Square for Franchises dashboard, and select a location that is not your merchant-level location from the dropdown menu.
Go to Operations and select Menu Management.
Select the Taxes tab.
Select a tax and click ••• then Delete.
Click Delete.