https://community.squareup.com/t5/Staff-Payroll/Employee-account-for-cash-advance/m-p/717135#M1053 <P><a href="https://community.squareup.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/74708">@Bhcbistro</a>&nbsp;I understand how that would be nice to be able to offer that as a benefit to your employees.&nbsp; The only real issue I see is that payroll deductions like that usually (depending on state law) require written authorizations and a good paper trail.&nbsp; It also would be wise to not really do it that way to protect yourself as a business owner.&nbsp; If for example an employee worked 15 hours and charged 20$ worth of food and they only earn say 8$ per hour.&nbsp; If you don't clearly track that and document it, you would end up only paying them the equivalent of 6.67 an hour and that would violate a multitude of labor laws.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Sure the employee may someone you trust implicitly, but I wouldn't risk it.&nbsp; The easier way is to just set up a house account or run an open ticket with their name and require them to pay you on pay day.&nbsp; If they don't pay you on pay day, I would question how much you really can trust the employee.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I just wanted to give you some frank advice based on my experience in this business.&nbsp; It may be totally different for you, but if you really want to do this, you could do it as a manual deduction when you run your payroll.</P> Tue, 19 Mar 2024 11:35:17 GMT Donnie-M 2024-03-19T11:35:17Z https://community.squareup.com/t5/Staff-Payroll/Employee-account-for-cash-advance/m-p/717112#M1052 <P>It would be amazing if there was an employee account that you could charge food to for the employees that would automatically track and transfer to payroll.&nbsp;</P> Sun, 21 Sep 2025 06:23:10 GMT https://community.squareup.com/t5/Staff-Payroll/Employee-account-for-cash-advance/m-p/717112#M1052 Bhcbistro 2025-09-21T06:23:10Z https://community.squareup.com/t5/Staff-Payroll/Employee-account-for-cash-advance/m-p/717135#M1053 <P><a href="https://community.squareup.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/74708">@Bhcbistro</a>&nbsp;I understand how that would be nice to be able to offer that as a benefit to your employees.&nbsp; The only real issue I see is that payroll deductions like that usually (depending on state law) require written authorizations and a good paper trail.&nbsp; It also would be wise to not really do it that way to protect yourself as a business owner.&nbsp; If for example an employee worked 15 hours and charged 20$ worth of food and they only earn say 8$ per hour.&nbsp; If you don't clearly track that and document it, you would end up only paying them the equivalent of 6.67 an hour and that would violate a multitude of labor laws.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Sure the employee may someone you trust implicitly, but I wouldn't risk it.&nbsp; The easier way is to just set up a house account or run an open ticket with their name and require them to pay you on pay day.&nbsp; If they don't pay you on pay day, I would question how much you really can trust the employee.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I just wanted to give you some frank advice based on my experience in this business.&nbsp; It may be totally different for you, but if you really want to do this, you could do it as a manual deduction when you run your payroll.</P> Tue, 19 Mar 2024 11:35:17 GMT https://community.squareup.com/t5/Staff-Payroll/Employee-account-for-cash-advance/m-p/717135#M1053 Donnie-M 2024-03-19T11:35:17Z