Hey @CommonThreads1. Since we are just fellow sellers here, we can not answer the “why” of questions like this. It is just a fact that each piece of a transaction has its own, unique ID in order to be able to look it up later. At this time, there is no setting to allow us to make any changes of this kind.
If you feel that strongly about this, head over to the Ideate Board and submit a feature request. It will be reviewed, and if Square feels like there would be a broad enough usage of this then they might add it to a future product roadmap. In this case, it would really help for you to make your case — ie - give the engineers some real world examples of why this is causing you problems and the extra work you have to do to reconcile payments.
Finally, if you feel like it, you can make the same case here. We might be able to brainstorm a decent work-around that would take some of the load and frustration out of your day.
Chip A.
Square Expert & Innovator and member of the Square Champions group. (But NOT a Square employee, just a seller like you)
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