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Printing out reports on a receipt printer

KennyBs — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 04:04:57 GMT

I was thinking of purchasing the Square Register for my bar business. Before I do, I have an important question about printing reports from a thermal receipt printer. Every day I have two bartenders, one opens at 11am, and the other comes in at 6pm at shift change. I was wondering if the Square register will allow me to print out a report for the morning bartender (11 -6) and the night bartender (6 - 2am) on a receipt printer. Is there a way to designate a time? Finally, is there an example of what a report on a receipt would look like?

Thank you all.

Re: Printing out reports on a receipt printer

ryanwanner — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 04:25:04 GMT

I'm not using the Square Register currently (only the Point of Sale) but I believe the user interface is pretty much identical.

Yes, you can print individual employees sales from the Register. When you're in the Reports->Sales screen, look for the three bars with the dots in them. On the PoS, it's on the top left of the Sales screen. Tapping that allows you to customize the report.

This report allows you to choose specific employees (note to Square: if the employee chooser here would only show employees with active sales during the time period it would save time!!) and specific time periods. Once done with the customize screen, your report will be shown on screen. Tapping the printer icon (upper right on PoS) prints a report for you.

That report has the following sections: Sales Summary, Discounts, Category Sales, and Item Sales.

Also: I know you're wanting to use the reporting from the receipt printer, but so you know you can also set up custom reports from the Dashboard that will show you all the same information with only two clicks instead of multiple taps. If this is something you'd be interested in further down the road, check out Square's Custom Reports help page.

Re: Printing out reports on a receipt printer

KennyBs — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 04:31:52 GMT

Thank you very much for the prompt and thorough response Ryan. Just to be clear, you can print out this report from a receipt printer?

Re: Printing out reports on a receipt printer

ryanwanner — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 04:47:50 GMT

Yes. I printed a test report from my tablet just to verify it worked. I'm assuming it won't be any different on the Register.

Re: Printing out reports on a receipt printer

KennyBs — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 04:49:50 GMT

You're a life saver, I've been researching the night away, thanks again!