Split a payment and bill with Square for Restaurants
Before you begin
During service, your team members may need to split bills or payments among multiple guests or multiple payment types. There are two ways of doing this in Square Restaurants POS:
Split a bill: When you split a bill, you can select items and move them to a new bill so guests can pay by item separately. This option is useful in scenarios where one guest leaves early and wants to pay for their meal before they go.
Split a payment: When you split a payment, you can only split by amounts (eg 2, 3, 4) and not by individual items from the bill. This option covers scenarios where you need to split a single bill into multiple payments, like when a large group of guests wants to pay separately.
You can split a bill with Square for Restaurants mobile POS but splitting an item (eg a bottle of wine split multiple ways) is not available.
Split a bill
To split a bill into multiple bills in Square Restaurant POS:
Select the bill to split.
Tap Actions > Split.
Choose the item(s) you’d like to move to another bill.
Tap Create New Bill.
Select Save All to confirm.
Split a payment
To split a single bill into multiple payments in Square Restaurant POS:
Select the bill you’d like to split and tap Pay.
Tap Split Amount.
Under Split into Equal Payments, select how many ways you would like to split this payment.
Select a tender type and complete the transaction.
Continue processing the additional tender types until the entire sale has been completed.
When you split a payment, make sure all payments are successful. If one payment fails, the entire transaction is voided and no funds are collected.
Next steps
Learn more about other ways to manage your restaurant’s bills: