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Request and Manage Deposits with Square Invoices

Square Invoices

Get paid faster with online invoices.

With Square Invoices, you can request payment for a portion of your invoice upfront as a deposit, and set a separate due date for the remaining balance. With these deposits, you can create a single invoice to track multiple payments and reduce the amount of time you have to spend reconciling multiple payments.

Request Deposits with Square Invoices

From your online Square Dashboard

  1. Go to Payments > Invoices, and select Send an invoice.
  2. Select a customer from your Customer Directory, or enter a new name and email address.
  3. Under Line items, add items from your library. You can then select Customize to apply modifiers, notes, taxes, and discounts.
  4. Select Add payment schedule, and toggle Request deposit to ON. Enter the amount or percentage, select a due date, and select Save. Deposits can be requested with a fixed dollar amount or as a percentage of the invoice total.
  5. Select Send.

Once your customer receives the invoice, they can pay the deposit first, then the remaining balance.

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Important to note:

  • You can request a deposit and partial payment per order total. The ability to split specific items for partial payments is unavailable at this time.
  • If you use Square to track your inventory, your items will only adjust when the entire invoice is paid. Paying the deposit won’t change the item counts.

From the Square POS app

  1. Go to More > Invoices, and select +.
  2. Select a customer from your Customer Directory, or select Create Customer to add new customer details.
  3. Under Line items, enter a custom amount or add items from your library. You can then apply modifiers, notes, taxes, and discounts.
  4. Select Add payment schedule, and toggle Request initial deposit to ON. Enter the amount or percentage, select a due date, and select Save. Deposits can be requested with a fixed dollar amount or as a percentage of the invoice total.
  5. Select Send.

From the Square Invoices app

  1. Go to Invoices, and select +.
  2. Select a customer from your Customer Directory, or select Create Customer to add new customer details.
  3. Under Line items, enter a custom amount or add items from your library. You can then apply modifiers, notes, taxes, and discounts.
  4. Select Add payment schedule, and toggle Request initial deposit to ON. Enter the amount or percentage, select a due date, and select Save. Deposits can be requested with a fixed dollar amount or as a percentage of the invoice total.
  5. Select Send.

Manage Deposits with Square Invoices

Edit a deposit

You can edit a Square Invoice at any time from your Square Dashboard, even after a partial payment has been made.

To do so:

  1. Go to Payments > Invoices in your online Square Dashboard, and select an invoice.

  2. Select Edit > Deposit to edit the deposit amount or change the due date.

  3. Select Send.

Record a payment

Once a payment has been made, you can record the payment in your online Square Dashboard and Square mobile apps.

Note: The option to record a payment is currently only available on iOS.

From your online Square Dashboard

  1. Go to Payments > Invoices, and select an invoice.
  2. Scroll down to the Payments section, and select Add Payment.
  3. Select Record Payment, and add a payment method.

From the Square POS app

  1. Go to More > Invoices, and select an invoice.
  2. Scroll down to the Payments section, and select Add Payment.
  3. Specify the amount paid, and select Next.
  4. Add a payment method.

From the Square Invoices app

  1. Go to Invoices, and select an invoice.
  2. Scroll down to the Payments section, and select Add Payment.
  3. Specify the amount paid, and select Next.
  4. Add a payment method.

The ability to accept in-person payments toward a deposit or partial balance is currently unavailable. In-person payments can only be taken for the total invoice amount. If a deposit is already paid on the invoice, the Record Payments option will be unavailable.

If you need to charge a card, a workaround is to send your customer a link via email to pay with Apple Pay, Google Pay, Cash App, or a credit or debit card.

Refund a deposit

If you need to refund a partial payment on an invoice that is not fully paid yet, you will need to cancel the invoice. Once the invoice is canceled, the transaction will appear in your transactions list, where you will be able to follow the steps to issue a refund.

Partial payments on a canceled invoice will also appear in your sales reports as a Custom Amount paid, and will not affect your inventory counts since the invoice was canceled. If you made manual adjustments to your inventory, make sure you account for that change when cancelling an invoice.

Sales and reporting

When your customer makes a deposit payment or a progress payment on an invoice, those funds will be deposited to your account but that money won’t appear on your transactions report until the invoice is paid in full. Once the invoice is completely paid it will be marked as Done, and the amount paid will appear as one line item in your Sales report.

Even if only a down-payment is paid toward the invoice, the report will reflect the full amount of the invoice in the Transfers Report. The total column will reflect the amount of the down-payment paid, and the net total will not match the amount of the down-payment.

A partially paid amount will not count as a sale until the invoice is fully paid off in the Sales Report. View invoice reports in three separate places on your online Square Dashboard:

  1. Transactions: A transaction for the invoice will not appear until the invoice is fully paid off.

  2. Balance > Transfer Report: The partially paid amount will appear on the day the partial payment was made.

  3. Sales Report: A sale is not recognized until the invoice is fully paid so the invoice amount will not appear until the invoice is fully paid.

Important to note:

  • An item won’t be reduced in quantity until the invoice is paid in full.

  • Partial card payments taken will be deposited according to your current deposit schedule.

  • Partial cash or other tender payments marked as such on the invoice won’t be reflected in Reporting until the entire invoice is paid in full.

  • To view partial invoice payments, go to the Balance tab of your online Square Dashboard and click your location, then View All Transfers. Then, select the date you would like to view.