Assign item categories with Square for Restaurants
About assigning item categories
You can assign individual items to categories to track them in your Square for Restaurants reporting and inventory. Item categories also route items to your specific printer stations.
Before you begin
You can create item categories from your Square Dashboard and Square for Restaurants app. Learn how to create and edit item categories.
You can assign item categories to a printer profile from your Square Dashboard and Square for Restaurants app. Learn how to set up printer profiles.
Before you begin
You can assign individual items to categories to track them in your Square for Restaurants reporting and inventory. Item categories also route items to your specific printer stations.
To create an item category, you need access to your Square Dashboard. To assign categories to a printer station, you need access to your Square Restaurants POS app. If you do not have a printer station, learn how to create a printer station.
Assign categories to printers
Once your item categories and printer profiles are created, you can assign item categories to specific printers.
- Sign in to your Square Dashboard and click Settings > Device Management, then click Profiles > Printer profiles.
- Select your printer profile and click Edit next to Profile settings.
- Toggle ON In-person order tickets.
- Select Categories to Print and tick the relevant item categories.
- Click Save.
- Open your Square for Restaurants app and tap More, then Settings, then Hardware.
- Tap Printers below Connect and manage.
- Tap Profiles, then tap the > arrow icon next to Assign.
- Tap Edit next to Profile details.
- Tap In-person orders and toggle on Use this printer for in-person order tickets.
- Tap Categories to print and tick the relevant item categories.
- Tap the < arrow icon twice, and tap Save.
Next steps
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