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Use Dining Options with the Square App

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  • Account owners or team members with items permissions can enable or edit dining options. Account owners or team members with checkout permissions can apply dining options. Set permissions in Square Dashboard.
  • Square for Restaurants Free, Plus, or Premium subscribers.

    • About dining options 

    When you’re ringing up a sale on the Square Point of Sale app or Square for Restaurants app, you can note whether customers are dining in, taking their items to go, or requesting delivery. 

    Your selected dining option will appear in the following places:

    • Customer receipts

    • Order tickets for the kitchen and KDS

    • In-app sales history

    • Advanced reporting and downloadable CSVs from your online Square Dashboard

    Before you begin 

    • You can create a total of ten dining options. 

    • Dining options are saved to your item library and not to any specific device.

    • Dining options aren’t available for online orders placed from your online store or third party orders. Online orders use fulfillment types.

    Learn more about how to Fulfill orders with Square.

    Manage dining options

    Enable fulfillment methods

    1. Sign in to Square Dashboard and go to Settings > Account & Settings > Fulfillment methods.
    2. Click Point of sale.
    3. From point of sale fulfillment methods, you can view the four preset options that are automatically created: For Here, To Go, Delivery or Pickup.
    4. Click Add to create a custom fulfillment method:
      • Enter Display text (for example, is “Curbside pickup”).
      • Select Order type to determine how the order will be handled and appear in Orders.
      • Turn on Enable order tracking for this fulfillment method to display order status on the POS and send SMS updates when orders are ready.
    5. Click Save.

    The first dining option listed will be the default for every new sale. Only non-default dining options will show in the order ticket. Dining options are location-specific and you can customize the list for each location.

    Edit fulfillment methods

      1. Sign in to Square Dashboard and go to Settings > Account & Settings > Fulfillment methods.
    2. Click Point of sale.
    3. From point of sale fulfillment methods, you can edit, delete or add new dining options.
    4. Click Edit to update the display text, order type or turn on Enable order tracking for this fulfillment method.
    5. Click Save.
    6. To rearrange your options, click the fulfillment method name and drag and drop the option to your preferred order.

    Apply dining options

    For every order placed on the POS, your default dining option is automatically applied to the current ticket.

    Square Point of Sale app

    1. From the open ticket in the app, swipe your finger over the default fulfillment method.
    2. To apply a fulfillment method to a specific item in the cart, tap the item and choose a fulfillment method.
    3. Tap Save.

    Square Restaurant POS app

    1. From the app, select the open ticket in question and tap Actions > Fulfillment methods.
    2. To apply a fulfillment method to a specific item in the cart, tap the item and select Modify.
    3. Choose a fulfillment method and tap Save.

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