Create and sell combos (Beta)
About restaurant combos
Combos are predefined groupings of items offered together at a fixed price. They can contain mutual exclusion choices across different categories, like choosing two from soup, salad, or sandwich. Combos allow you to group menu items together to be sold as one, ensuring accurate inventory tracking and modifier control for each item. They are flexible so that your customers can choose which items they'd like as part of their combo.
Use combos to offer a set of items together at a fixed price, which can drive higher average order values and simplify the buying process. Combos are helpful when you want to create bundles of multiple items to enhance value perception.
There are many different ways you can use combos to help streamline and increase sales, for example:
A meal discount for a pizza and soda combo, or a sandwich, side and a drink
A big meal bundle that includes enough food to feed 3-4 people
A breakfast special with eggs, toast, and side
A flight of different wines or beers
Before you begin
Before you can create and sell combos, you need to join the beta. If you are not part of the beta and would like to participate, you can join the Combos Beta Community group.
You can create combos using your existing items from your Square Dashboard. Before you set up combos, you need to create items. Learn how to create and edit items.
There are a few limitations on using combos:
Combos are not yet supported on Square Online. Combos will not sync or show up on your Square Online site.
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.
Make sure you are running the latest version of the Square Point of Sale app or Square Restaurants POS app.
Modifiers and combos have different use cases:
Use modifiers if you need individual item customizations within the combo. Learn how to create and edit item modifiers.
Use combos when you want to provide a simplified, bundled purchasing experience with predefined options and allow selection within specific categories.
For any questions or feedback while testing this beta feature, visit the Combos | Square for Restaurants private group within the Beta Community.
Create a combo
You can create a combo from your Square Dashboard.
Sign in to Square Dashboard and go to Items & services (or Items & menus or Items & inventory > Items.
Click Create item.
Click Change next to Item type, select Combo then click Change.
Type your combo details.
Assign your combo to a menu, category and optionally a kitchen and / or sales reporting category.
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Scroll down to Combo contents, select + Add an item or category, tick the item or category you want to add to your combo, then click Next.
Configure the combo options by adding a Display name (optional), amount of selections, and default selection (if any), then click Add.
Repeat steps 6 and 7 to add additional combo choices.
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Click Save.
* Combo includes sandwich + side + drink.
Add a combo to your POS layout
Once your combo is created, you can add it to your POS layout.
Sign in to Square Dashboard and go to Items & services (or Items & menus or Items & inventory) > Menús.
Select your menu and click Edit POS Layout.
Click any + plus icon on your menu grid then select Item.
Tick your newly created combo from the list, then click Add item.
Click Save.
Sell a combo
Once your combo is created and added to your POS layout, you can sell the combo from your Square Point of Sale app in full service, quick service, or bar mode or your Square Restaurants POS app.
Open your app and tap Menu.
Tap your combo, click Modify to make modifications (if applicable), then tap Add to check.
Continue with order or select Pay/Send to complete the order.
Combos Reporting
You can find the combos reporting in your Square Dashboard.
The Item Sales report shows the individual items from combos sold. In the Sales Summary report, combo transactions contribute to Gross Sales & Net Sales.