Tips Questions

[facilitiesnls]

Hi Square Community,

We’re exploring enabling on-screen tipping at checkout for merchandise sales using Square, with the intention that tips be routed directly to our nonprofit Foundation, rather than to our operating account.

Our question is around payment mechanics:

• Can Square split funds from a single credit card transaction so that:

  • The purchase amount settles to our primary business account, and

  • The tip amount is automatically routed to a separate Square account / legal entity (our Foundation)?

• If not automatically, are there recommended workflows or tools within Square (e.g., multiple locations, donations features, APIs, or post-transaction routing) to support this setup while keeping it transparent for the customer?

We want the checkout experience to remain one transaction for the customer, while ensuring tips are clearly designated and deposited to the Foundation.

Appreciate any guidance or best practices from those who’ve implemented something similar.

Thanks in advance!

[Doran]

If you have Square savings, you can set up an auto transfer of daily sales.  But it is percentage-based.  So if you set the tip up to auto 10% and then Square savings auto 10% it will match.  If the tips are just random, you will need to go in at the end of the day or week and hand-transfer them.