Create and assign item categories with Square for Restaurants
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About assigning item categories
You can assign individual items to categories to track them in your Square for Restaurants reporting and inventory. Item categories also route items to specific printer stations.
Before you begin
Create item categories from your Square Dashboard and Square Restaurant POS app. Learn how to create and edit item categories.
Assign item categories to a printer profile from your Square Dashboard and Square Restaurant POS app. Learn how to set up printer profiles.
Assign categories to printers
Once your item categories and printer profiles are created, you can assign item categories to specific printers.
- Sign in to your Square Dashboard and click Settings > Device management > Profiles > Printer profiles.
- Select an existing printer profile and click Edit next to Profile settings.
- Toggle on In-person order tickets.
- Click Categories to Print and tick the relevant item categories.
- Click Save.
- Open your Square Restaurant POS app and tap More > Settings > Hardware.
- Tap Printers below Connect and manage.
- Tap Profiles, then tap the > arrow icon next to Assign.
- Tap Edit next to Profile details.
- Tap In-person orders and toggle on Use this printer for in-person order tickets.
- Tap Categories to print and tick the relevant item categories.
- Tap the < arrow icon twice, and tap Save.