thread How do I record payment with a check including a tip? in Payments Troubleshooting

How do I record payment with a check including a tip?

Bpoe492 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 20:25:31 GMT

Does anyone have experience with receiving checks over the amount of the bill? Currently the POS system only records the amount of the bill and doesn't account for a tip.

Re: How do I record payment with a check including a tip?

TheRealChipA — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 20:33:55 GMT

Hi @Bpoe492. Currently, there is no tipping option for cash and cash-equivalent (ie - check) tender types. I’m not sure who is getting your tips, but for the purposes of my reply I’ll assume you are a service person who also receives tips. In this case, you’d record the payment only for the amount of the transaction. Whatever is left, you’d have to treat it as a cash tip and record it for tax purposes however you treat cash tips. But there would be no record of that through Square, unless you were a Teams Plus subscriber who had cash tip recording turned on. Then you could manually record tips in a couple of ways. I doubt you’d need that extra expense, unless you have a few tipped employees you want to keep track of, like I do in my ice cream shop.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Re: How do I record payment with a check including a tip?

Bpoe492 — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 20:38:08 GMT

Thanks! The checks with tips just mess up our reporting. It seems to confuse people.

We don't need the extra expense of upgrading to Teams Plus. I was hoping this would be put in the free version!