Shipping for Square Invoices

The title of this thread has been edited by a Square Moderator from the original: "THERE IS NO SHIPPING Service FOR INVOICES"

 

Please do not waste your time with all the Shipping Nonsense ,     This is only for On LINE STORES .

 

If you send an invoice out to your client and they pay, there is no way to ship , 

There is no work around,     There is no direct answer from Square ,  Its is for NULL AN VOID.

 

I have spent countless hours, please do not waste your time

 

The PLUS program also is not going to help you with the Shipping . 

Please do not waste your money on that. 

 

So you cannot use any Shipping Service such as Shippo .

You cannot mark  your invoice as shipped .      

 

 

 

This has been very Frustrating for many as well as the hoops we have been asked to try.   

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Hi @phantomrain @LizS1 @DinaLRosenberg Appreciate all the insights. We have recently launched invoices x shipping. The option to create an Order for shipping is now an option when you are creating an Invoice. You can still request a buyer's shipping address like before. Once an invoice is paid, you can purchase a shipping label through Square, or add a manual tracking number. Check out https://squareup.com/help/us/en/article/8080-set-up-shipping-for-square-invoices?utm_medium=web&utm_... to learn more! Thanks so much.

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All of the above answers are "workarounds" to the original post/problem, not a viable solution that could simple be built into the app -- just make a field for shipping below the subtotal of the invoice, much like "service charge," but allow it to be changed each time! Yes, I can create a shipping product/line item, but that's not the point. The point is that Square invoicing is not set up to work well with sales being shipped, only in-person sales.

 

For example, there's no easy way to turn off all the sales taxes for an invoice when it's a tax-exempt sale (I have to manually turn off 3 different tax settings -- city, state, county -- for each line item), and for a large invoice, that's a lot of extra work.

 

Also, it would be great if I could invoice the customer and have two different fields for shipping and billing -- no, I don't want to ask them when I send the invoice; I already have that information, and I should be able to put that into their customer field.

 

So, I agree with the OP that Square is not a good option for online sales. These are simple things we need for invoicing our customers. If you are going to offer invoicing, you need to understand what your customers' needs are. 

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Hi @LizS1 - Thanks for reaching out to us here on the Square Seller Community👋

 

Thank you for sharing your feedback with us here. If you would like, you can also submit your suggestions to our Ideate Board in the Seller Community. Our Product Teams keep their eyes on this form as they are constantly working to improve our products and features.

 

We appreciate your input! 

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Hi @phantomrain @LizS1 @DinaLRosenberg Appreciate all the insights. We have recently launched invoices x shipping. The option to create an Order for shipping is now an option when you are creating an Invoice. You can still request a buyer's shipping address like before. Once an invoice is paid, you can purchase a shipping label through Square, or add a manual tracking number. Check out https://squareup.com/help/us/en/article/8080-set-up-shipping-for-square-invoices?utm_medium=web&utm_... to learn more! Thanks so much.

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We have been using the "add tracking" service against invoices- it's great to be able to keep track.

Now we need a notes function 🙂

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This doesnt seem to work with square for retail POS on iphone. I can create a shipment but can't select invoice as a payment option. the invoice option is greyed out. Any ideas on how to resolve this. We have turned on and off permissions for invoiving and that didnt resolve it. Thanks!

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Hello, @Jon8

 

We are sorry to hear that you're experiencing difficulties with the invoice feature in Square for retail POS on your iPhone. We suggest taking a look at these options and settings in your Square Online Dashboard. We can see the option to create "Order for Shipping" in your Square Online Dashboard here.

 

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Please let us know if this translated to your Square for retail account once you log into your Square Online Dashboard. If not we would be happy to continue assisting you. 

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Thank you for the reply!

 

The feature for shipping only works for invoices after they have been paid - is there a setting to turn this on for unpaid invoices? for clients that have terms (30 days) to be able to not manually create a shipping label?

 

Thanks again!

 

Jon

 

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Hi @Jon8 👋 Violet here, following up for @sayra.

 

I'm going to consult with the Square Invoices team on this one to get the best answer for you. I'll reach back out to you here once I gather more info!

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Hi there again, @Jon8 - Thanks for your patience 🙏

 

The Invoices team let me know the following, "Only Invoice orders that have been paid can be marked as shipped. We are aware of Seller workflows that may want to send out shipments before the Invoice is paid, but at the time, we don't have this feature on the '24 roadmap... it's definitely an improvement for the future!"

At this time, this is a feature request. I’ve shared your feature request with our Product Team, as they are constantly improving our products based on feedback like this. To learn more about how feature requests work, please see this post  from one of our Seller Community Moderators. 

 

I hope this information is helpful, but please do let me know if you have any additional questions.

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