How do I record payment with a check including a tip?

Does anyone have experience with receiving checks over the amount of the bill?  Currently the POS system only records the amount of the bill and doesn't account for a tip.

 

 

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Hi @Bpoe492.  Currently, there is no tipping option for cash and cash-equivalent (ie - check) tender types.  I’m not sure who is getting your tips, but for the purposes of my reply I’ll assume you are a service person who also receives tips.  In this case, you’d record the payment only for the amount of the transaction.  Whatever is left, you’d have to treat it as a cash tip and record it for tax purposes however you treat cash tips.  But there would be no record of that through Square, unless you were a Teams Plus subscriber who had cash tip recording turned on. Then you could manually record tips in a couple of ways.  I doubt you’d need that extra expense, unless you have a few tipped employees you want to keep track of, like I do in my ice cream shop.

 

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Chip A.
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Hi @Bpoe492.  Currently, there is no tipping option for cash and cash-equivalent (ie - check) tender types.  I’m not sure who is getting your tips, but for the purposes of my reply I’ll assume you are a service person who also receives tips.  In this case, you’d record the payment only for the amount of the transaction.  Whatever is left, you’d have to treat it as a cash tip and record it for tax purposes however you treat cash tips.  But there would be no record of that through Square, unless you were a Teams Plus subscriber who had cash tip recording turned on. Then you could manually record tips in a couple of ways.  I doubt you’d need that extra expense, unless you have a few tipped employees you want to keep track of, like I do in my ice cream shop.

 

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Chip A.
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Thanks!  The checks with tips just mess up our reporting.  It seems to confuse people.  

 

We don't need the extra expense of upgrading to Teams Plus.  I was hoping this would be put in the free version!

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