thread Re: EIN for DBA in Staff & Payroll

EIN for DBA

dolfloral — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 06:45:57 GMT

I have two Square accounts for my two businesses. The second business is a DBA of the first. As its a DBA it has the same EIN number as the first. Square will not let me run payroll since I have two accounts using the same EIN. I have spoken to my CPA and he advises to not get a second EIN for the DBA.

Is there any way around this limitation with Square?

Re: EIN for DBA

PartyManiaMD — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:57:16 GMT

The only workaround I could possibly recommend would be to add the second business as a second Location for your Square account.

https://squareup.com/dashboard/locations

Technically if your second business is a DBA from the first business and has the same EIN number it is the same company for all intents and purposes.

Did Square let you set up a second account with the same EIN? You could always use an outside payroll supplier for the second account.

Re: EIN for DBA

Donnie-M — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:36:29 GMT

@dolfloral Have you thought about just setting up the DBA as a 2nd location under 1 square account? That makes more functional sense to me since it is 1 business.