Split a check by item or seat
About splitting checks
Your staff can split checks or payments among multiple guests or multiple payment types, by item or seat. There are two ways to do this:
Split a check:
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By Item: When you split a check, you can select items and move them to a new check so guests can pay by item separately. This option is useful in scenarios where one guest leaves early and wants to pay for their meal before they go.
Split items: You can choose to split individual items in portions (e.g. ⅓ of a bottle of wine) across newly created checks. Split items can be recombined as long as you are still in the current split check process or later, if all parts of the items are returned to the original check.
By Seat: When you split a check by seat, any items assigned to a single seat will each move to their own check and items assigned to multiple seats will be evenly split among them This option is useful in scenarios where you have seating enabled and each guest wants to pay for their individual order.
Split a payment
When you split a payment, you can only split by amounts and not by individual items from the check. This option covers scenarios where you need to split a single check into multiple payments, like when a large group of guests wants to pay separately.
Before you begin
When a check is split by seat, then any discounts, coupons, or service charges applied to specific items or configured to be item specific will be moved alongside the item they are associated with. If there are any cart-level service charges, discounts, or promotions, then those would remain on the original check and can be moved manually. Before you can split a check by seat, you need to enable seat tracking for the specific device from your Square Dashboard. Learn how to Customize table management settings.
Currently, you cannot split:
Sell by unit/fractional quantity items
Items that are portions of a previously split item
A modifier's cost can’t be split at sub-line item level. Their cost will be accurately split when dividing the total cost of the item they are attached to. If you void a previously split item from any of its fractions, the item is automatically recombined in the process. Learn more about how to Process split payments.
Split by seat or item
- Open your Square Restaurants POS app.
- Select the check you’d like to split and tap Actions > Split check.
- Choose Split by seat.
- This will automatically create new checks for each seat that contains items in the check. For any items assigned to the table or that you’d like to further move, you can further move items between split checks.
- Once the items are moved to their new checks, tap Save.
Split items
The ability to split items or recombine split items is available only for Square for Restaurants Plus or Premium subscribers.
- Open your Square Restaurants POS app.
- Select the check you’d like to split and tap Actions > Split check.
- Select your item(s) > Split item(s).
- Select Split evenly and in how many ways or Customize split.
- Choose the amount(s) to split by.
- Tap Save.
- Open your Square Restaurants POS app.
- Select the check you’d like to split and tap Actions > Split check.
- Tap Split evenly > choose the number of ways you want to split.
- Tap Save.
- Split items can only be recombined as long as you are still in the current split check process, or later, if all parts of the items are returned to the original check.
- Open your Square for Restaurants POS app.
- Select the check containing the items you want to recombine.
- Select your item(s) > tap Combine.
- Tap Save.