[New] Tare for weighted items on Square for Retail

[#1]

Hi sellers! 👋

We’re excited to announce that you can now deduct tare weights from items sold by weight directly through your Square for Retail point of sale.

This new tare functionality allows you to remove the weight of containers or other packaging that shouldn’t be included in what you charge your customers; something that could previously only be managed on the scale itself.

After you place an item on your connected scale and select it to add to cart, you’ll see an option to Set tare. You can enter the container’s tare weight that will be subtracted from the scale’s measured weight. Once the tare is set, and the item is added, the cart will then display the net weight used to calculate the price.

Note: Tare weight can only be subtracted and cannot exceed the measured weight.

Additionally, the customer’s receipt will also display both the net weight and any applicable tare weight while your inventory will be decreased by net weight only.

We hope this will streamline how you sell items by weight, and speed up checkout for you and your customers. To learn more, see our Support Center article.

Note: This feature is available to all sellers using Square for Retail and a supported scale. The new cart experience must also be enabled on each of your devices in Settings > Favorites.

[Stacelyn24]

Well this is a good feature...and now the customer can rest assured that their only paying for the weight of the actual product and not the what's actually holding it 🙂

[jumscheid]

Are we able to save tare weights for different packaging and recall them as needed?  Or do we have to have a list of tare weights for different packaging that the cashier needs to use each time?  If it's the latter, then this really isn't a value add, as we're still relying on human input to correctly weigh items.

[RefillableGoods]

I would love to see this feature where we could save different packaging. As a refill shop, our customers who bring their own containers usually use the same container multiple times. If we could save the container types, this would make the tare feature a breeze! 

[jumscheid]

Yes, exactly!  For example, in my frozen yogurt store, someone may purchase any number of cups at one time, so it'd be great to have tare options from "1 cup" all the way to "5 cups" so that we can just push the one button, weight it, and it'll automatically remove the tare amount of cups.

You're almost there with this feature, Square!