thread Can I start a cash drawer from square terminal? in Payments Troubleshooting

Can I start a cash drawer from square terminal?

ecarr — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:31:28 GMT

I see its easy to start and end a cash drawer from the iPad app, but not an iPhone app. My question is if I just have a square terminal at my business can I start and end a cash drawer like on an iPad? For clarification, I'm talking about the virtual cash drawer, not a physical cash drawer.

Thanks

Re: Can I start a cash drawer from square terminal?

isabelle — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 22:40:49 GMT

Hey @ecarr-

Thanks for posting in the Seller Community.

What do you mean by virtual cash drawer? Like start accepting cash payments?

Let me know so I can look into this.

Re: Can I start a cash drawer from square terminal?

ecarr — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:47:44 GMT

I’m talking about cash management. Where it tracks how much cash is in your drawer.

Re: Can I start a cash drawer from square terminal?

Joe — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 20:27:06 GMT

Hi there, @ecarr! Thanks for clarifying that for us. I can step in for Isabelle here.

Here is a quick workaround to balance a cash drawer by hand if you're using Square Terminal:

At the start of your day, record the starting cash amount in your drawer.
At the end of your day, download a CSV file of your payment history from your online Square Dashboard
Subtract cash sales, refunds, or cash paid in/out from your starting cash amount and record the balance.
Count the cash in your drawer. If the actual cash amount in the drawer is equal to the balance you calculated from your CSV, then the drawer is in balance.

Cash Management is still only supported with the Square app on iPads and Android tablets and we'll update this thread this changes in future.

Let me know if you have any questions!