Run a restaurant shift report
About shift reports
Shift reports help you save time calculating team member hours and tips.
When a team member is ready to close out a shift, they can run a shift report to view their card tips and cash owed to the house before clocking out.
Before you start
Shift reports are broken up into five main sections:
Shift Summary: This section displays the details on the total time worked by an employee in that shift.
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Tip details: This section breaks down payments and how they impact your employees’ earned tips.
Cash sales: Shows the total cash transactions accepted by an employee.
Non-cash tips: Shows the total tips from card transactions accepted by an employee.
Cash owed to you: Used for businesses that pay card tips in cash at the end of a shift. This number will represent the value of card tips that are over the cash accepted by this employee.
Cash owed to house: Shows the amount of cash an employee should have in their bank after paying themselves tips.
Sales summary: Details the total covers and total monetary amount collected from those covers during your employees shift.
Category sales: Displays the number of items in each of your categories that your employee sold during their shift.
Item sales: Lists item sales.
Shift reports can only be run if all outstanding closing procedure tasks are complete, such as closing all bills or adjusting card tips.
Run a shift report
You can run a shift report from the Square Point of Sale app with full service, quick service or bar mode enabled or from the Square for Restaurants Point of Sale app on personal iOS or Android devices or from your Square Register.
- Log in to the app using your personal passcode and tap Account.
- Before running your report, you can adjust any tips, close any open bills or declare cash tips if needed.
- If everything looks right, tap Run Shift Report. If the figures look low, a team member may have processed payments before clocking in — you can customise the time frame by tapping Edit Report.