Assign item categories to printers

Who is this article for?

Account owners or team members with general items permissions. Set permissions in Square Dashboard.

Square for Restaurant Free, Plus, and Premium subscribers

Square Free, Plus, and Premium subscribers with advanced restaurants capabilities added. Add capabilities in Square Dashboard.

Sellers with full service, quick service, or bar mode enabled in the Square Point of Sale app.

About assigning item categories to printers

You can assign individual items to categories to route items to specific printers.

Before you can assign item categories to your printers, you need to create item categories. Learn how to create and edit item categories.
You can assign item categories to a printer profile from your Square Dashboard and point of sale app. Learn how to set up printer profiles.

Sign in to Square Dashboard and go to Settings > Device management > Printer profiles.
Select an existing printer profile and click Edit next to Profile settings.
Toggle on In-person order tickets.
Click Categories to Print and tick the relevant item categories.
Click Save.

From the Square POS app with full service, quick service, or bar modes enabled or from the Square Restaurants POS app.

Open your point of sale app and tap More > Settings > 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.