Beta | Restaurant Combos

Thank you for participating in the Combos beta for Square for Restaurants. Combos is a new type of item will allow you to group menu items together to be sold as one, ensuring accurate inventory tracking and modifier control for each item.

There are many different ways you can utilize Combos to help streamline and increase sales, for example:

• A meal discount for a pizza and soda combo or 3 tacos, side and a drink.

• A big meal bundle that includes enough food to feed 3-4 people.

• Breakfast special: eggs + toast + meat

Current limitations

• Square Online is unsupported at this time. Combos will not sync or show up on your Square Online site.

• Third-party reporting and accounting integrations (i.e. Quick Books, Xero, Zoho Books, etc) are unsupported at this time. Combos will not be reported properly through the third-party connections.

• Combos is only available on your Restaurant Point of Sale. If you use Square Point of Sale or another third-party marketplace, Combo items will not show.

• Buyer facing screens only show the components of a combo, but not the combo name.

Get Started

1. Make sure you are running the latest Square for Restaurants POS app version.

   1. For Square Register and Terminal, updates happen automatically. You can also go to Settings > Hardware > General > About to check if your software version is up to date.

   2. Select Check for Update to see if there is a new software version.

To create your first combo, follow the steps listed below. For the example shown, we’re creating a sandwich, soup, and drink combo.

Create a combo in Square Dashboard

1. From your online Square Dashboard, click Items > Create an Item.

2. Select Combo as item type.

3. Give the combo a name, description, and price.

4. Assign your combo to a menu, category and optionally a kitchen and / or sales reporting category.

5. Scroll down to Combo contents, select + Add an item or category > make selections > Next.

   

6. Configure the combo options > Add a Display name (optional), amount of selections, and default selection (if any) > Add.

7. Repeat steps 4 and 5 to add additional combo choices, for example, Lunch Soups, and Fountain drink.

   

8. Click Save.

9. Add the new Combo to your POS layout by heading to Menus > select Edit POS Layout > add newly created combo(s) to the menu grid or display group and save.

Sell a Combo on Restaurants Point of Sale

1. On the Restaurants POS Menu, select a Combo, make modifications (if applicable), select Add to check.

2. Continue with order or select Pay/Send to complete the order.

Fulfilling a Combo

Combos will show on both printed kitchen tickets as well as on the KDS, you can continue to filter items by their categories but filtering specific combos is not yet supported. When filtered, only the relevant item(s) and its combo will show on the ticket at that station.

Combos Reporting

The Item Sales report shows the individual items from combos sold. The Discounts report shows each combo sold along with the amount discounted from the regular price of the items in the combo. In the Sales Summary report, combo transactions contribute to Gross Sales, Net Sales, Discounts & Comps.

FAQs

Questions or Feedback?

For any questions or feedback while testing this beta feature, visit the Combos | Square for Restaurants private group within the Beta Community, or reach out to the Beta team at betafeedback@squareup.com.