Adding tax to manually entered totals in checkout

SilverDragon — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 12:32:53 GMT

Is there a setting to have tax automatically calculated and added to a manually entered transaction? It is automatically added to items that have been entered. I can’t seem to find a location to address this.......

Re: Adding tax to manually entered totals in checkout

Alex_ — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 19:50:53 GMT

Hi @SilverDragon,

Great question! You definitely can create your tax rules to automatically apply to your sales. To do so, follow these steps or check out this article for a video on how to get this done:

Visit Sales Taxes in your online Square Dashboard.
Click Create Tax at the top-right of the page.
Enter the tax information and make sure to toggle Enable Tax on. Note: You can choose to Add Tax to Item Price, which adds the tax as a separate line item to the price, or Include Tax in Item Price, which shows one amount – the combined sales tax and item price.
Select the applicable locations.
Click Save.
Apply the tax to your items > Apply to Items.
Select individual items or click Select All > Apply to Items.

You can also adjust your taxes from the item level:

Visit Items in your online Square Dashboard.
Click on an item to bring up the item details page. Under Taxes > No Taxes or select the name you gave your tax.
Enable tax rate(s) you’d like to apply.

Note: Taxes will automatically apply to sales where a custom amount is entered. To disable taxes for custom amounts visit your tax settings in the Square app.

Please let me know if you have any other questions by replying to this thread.

Re: Adding tax to manually entered totals in checkout

SilverDragon — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 23:21:43 GMT

Thanks Alex!!! Found the place I needed to tweak!!! You're the best!!!

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