thread Re: Printing labels for drink orders? in Food & Beverage

NEW! Printing labels for drink orders

gcoop5466 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 03:40:30 GMT

What is the best way to print order tickets using labels? I'm setting up Square in a small coffee cafe at my church and would like to print drink orders tickets on a label to stick to the cups. I see I can use the Star printer with Max stick paper... but it seems very expensive. Any suggestions?

Re: Printing labels for drink orders?

Tom — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 18:02:56 GMT

Hi @gcoop5466 — welcome to the seller community and thanks for bringing this up!

At this time we don't have a sticker paper friendly option built into the app, but I can certainly see how this would be helpful for your cafe (as well as many other businesses!). We're constantly working to improve our products based on seller feedback. Keep in touch!

If any other sellers have additional insight to share here, feel free to chime in! 📣

Re: Printing labels for drink orders?

oregoncrepe — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 13:23:27 GMT

This may be too low tech, but we'll sometimes just stick the ticket in place by poutting it next to the cup and sliding the paper java jacket over part of it.

Re: Printing labels for drink orders?

Sean — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 19:21:23 GMT

@oregoncrepe - Sometimes the low-tech options are the best options! Thanks for sharing. 🙂

Re: Printing labels for drink orders?

BradleyRefresh — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 21:56:15 GMT

The low tech option of sticking the receipts to the cups only works if you have a single drink per ticket. When you are busy and have several drink orders, you want to be able to print to a label printer.

This is something that most other point of sale systems offer. It should be something that Square offers since Square fits the coffee and tea business so well. I purchased a Dymo label printer thinking it was compatible with Square but it turns out it's for printing barcodes that Square can read. If Square development could just make this label printer work for printing labels for menu items individually, it would be a huge improvement for any busy coffee/tea shop.

Ideally you should be able to select the menu items that you want to print labels for and they would each come out individually.

Re: Printing labels for drink orders?

Helen — Mon, 06 May 2019 20:43:37 GMT

Thank you for your feedback @BradleyRefresh. Currently you can print labels for bar codes if you're subscribed to Square for Retail - but not for menu items.

I appreciate your comments about this — it's very helpful for our Product teams to see how and why a feature like this would be useful for your business! 😀

Re: Printing labels for drink orders?

Sacha — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 06:14:18 GMT

I absolutely agree with your comments. I almost ditched Sqaure for Clover POS because they have an app called Easy Labels that prints out each drinks in an order. You would think this common feature would be available with Sqaure POS but it's not. I like the ease of use of Square versus Clover so there for im still here. However I am searching for a POS that has the same ease of use as Square but offers the lable features.

Re: Square for Retail - New Feature Roundup

Sallyhehehe — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 18:44:45 GMT

Do the new features include print out sticky labels after each transaction? I am running a coffee shop and we want to have labels printed out and stick on the cups after each order.

Re: Printing labels for drink orders?

jdbgreenville — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 17:36:58 GMT

We just switched from Revel (terrible POS BTW and expensive!) to Square for use in our coffee shop cafe. We love all of the features of Square but like others have lamented we really miss our drink cup label printer. Revel used a Zebra LP2824 Plus to print drink labels and it worked great. PLEASE SQUARE ADD THIS TO THE TOP OF YOUR DEVELOPMENT LIST. ALL OF US COFFEE SHOPS DESPERATELY NEED A DRINK LABEL PRINTER. Thank you for such a great product!

Re: Printing labels for drink orders?

michaelhtnd — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 06:30:32 GMT

I am swiching to clover because square just doesn't care about their customer, It is been a year and they can't even get this function done.

Re: Printing labels for drink orders?

Tea4Mind — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 06:11:32 GMT

Can the ones that are using Clover; tell me a bit more about it? I don't think I can wait for Square to add this function as my drink orders are increasing.

Thank you

Re: Printing labels for drink orders?

stellarhg — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 04:46:57 GMT

Eagerly watching this thread. I have used square for years and even invested in 2 square stands and new iPads last year to support growth, but without a single-order label printer system like coffee shops use (I do food vending at med/large music festivals) I am not able to grow further with Square, and I need to incorporate a True POS into my operations. Square has been great for this where traditional POS systems are absolutely not but I NEED the label printing for the next step. Please, Square, you open up a whole new range of clients...and hardware revenue to boot.

Re: Printing labels for drink orders?

Limoman — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:48:53 GMT

I sure hope that Square decides to add label printing soon before I make a change to Clover... They better hurry because I see a switch real soon.

Re: Printing labels for drink orders?

EJ_ — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:15:14 GMT

@Limoman @stellarhg Thank you both for sharing your thoughts and voicing your interest and need for this feature.

I know this is important to your business, but I don't have a timeline or an update on availability unfortunately.

Hopefully our Product team can get built out to help with this in a future product update. I'll definitely let them know about the feedback.

If anything comes up, I'll post an update for everyone 👍🏼

Re: Printing labels for drink orders?

Edds — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 17:11:30 GMT

It sounds like this applies to a desire to print an order stub for a single item, like a special order burger, from an order with multiple items. We don't have a need for a label printer for drink orders. However, in our second location that is currently NOT on Square, having the ability to print a single item from an order with multiple items, especially when it is a special order, is necessary before making the switch. We tape the special order stub to the wrapped burger. Please advise if my assumption is correct.

Re: Printing labels for drink orders?

Pandahands — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 18:42:09 GMT

I am disappointed to see that Square does not have the ability to print labels of individual drink orders. We have a cafe and need it desperately. If there’s no progress soon, we will also have to switch to the Clover system with the label printer.

Printing Sticky Labels for Beverages

teamoji — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 22:41:11 GMT

I know Square has been pretty silent about whether or not they will be supporting this, but it is a huge need for practically ever beverage cafe out there. So here I am with a final question before I move on and switching to Toast.

Is there anyway I can customize exactly what the printed receipt or Order Ticket looks like, and have it print to the Dymo Label Writer 450 and fit onto a .75" x 2" label?

Re: Printing Sticky Labels for Beverages

EJ_ — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 18:58:19 GMT

This reply was created from merging an existing thread: “Printing Sticky Labels for Beverages”. The original author has been notified via email.

Hi @teamoji

I've moved your post over to this existing thread, as a few of your fellow sellers have expressed some interest in this feature as well.

It's not available at the moment, but check out some of the workarounds within this thread, and hopefully we can get something rolled out to help with this in the future.

Re: Printing labels for drink orders?

mugz — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:23:24 GMT

We're about to launch a new coffee shop and had already selected Square for this shop (and ordered equipment through Square). This is disappointing and we may need to reevaluate for the other shops. I really hope that this changes!

Re: Printing labels for drink orders?

Helen — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 18:56:59 GMT

@mugz I'm very sorry about this and the trouble it might causing as you set up your new coffee shop (congratulations by the way!).

If we do support this feature in future we'll update this thread. Click Subscribe at the top of this email you'll be notified by email any time this page is updated.