Payments & Sales

Accept Tips with the Square App

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Enable Tipping In-App
Tipping Settings

Customise your Square app settings to accept tips electronically when your customers pay by card. All tip amounts are viewable from your payment history. 

Enable Tipping In-App

  1. Access your in-app settings by tapping: Three Horizontal Lines
  2. Tap Settings > Tipping.
  3. Toggle Collect Tips to on.

Tipping Settings

Select between Smart Tip or Custom Tip amounts.

Smart Tip Amounts

When Smart Tip Amounts is turned on, tipping works as follows:

  • If a transaction is less than £10, the available tipping options are: No Tip, 50p, £1 or £2.
  • For a transaction £10 or more, the available tipping options are: No Tip, 5%, 10% or 15%.

Custom Tip Amounts

Enabling percentage amounts allows you to set three custom amounts, which you can adjust at any time. To create custom tipping amounts: 

  1. Tap Set Percentage Amounts within your tipping settings. 
  2. Tap each amount field to enter your custom percentage.
  3. To allow your customers to enter a tip amount of their choosing, toggle Allow Custom Amounts to on. 

Note: Setting your fixed percentage amounts to 0% will only give your customers the ability to enter a custom tip amount. 

Tip Calculation

You will need to select if you would like your tips to be added before or after your taxes have been applied to the sale.