[US Only] Beta Test Bar Tabs Pre-Authorization wit...

MichelleSQ

Hey Square Sellers! Michelle here from the Square Beta Team. No longer want to hold on to credit cards behind the bar? Do you want to simply swipe, dip or tap someone’s card to start a tab and hand the card back to them? Square is excited to announce that we are testing Bar Tabs with Pre-Authorization functionality for Sellers using Square Point of Sale, or Square for Restaurants!

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If you are using Square for Restaurants, and want to start testing - join us over at the Restaurants POS Beta Community. Once you request access, our team will respond within 48 business hours and you’ll get an email with detailed instructions on how to get started.

If you are using Square Point of Sale, you can get started today - please follow the set instructions included in this Support Article.

If you have questions about this functionality, I am more than happy to answer your questions! As always, please share any and all feedback to betafeedback@squareup.com.

EDIT: This is only available for US based Sellers. Apologies to those of you outside of the US, we are working on it!

Michelle (she/her)
Senior Beta Manager, Square
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LukeNieuw

That's sweet!!

I know there's been lots of chat by sellers who have been waiting for this. Good stuff!

Luke Nieuwland
Owner/Operator
https://www.whiskyrun.com/
Co-Founder
https://birrdi.com/
Co-Founder
https://www.lakeeffect.ca/

MichelleSQ

Hi @LukeNieuw - thanks for your interest! I forgot to explicitly call out that this is limited to the US to start.

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LukeNieuw

😭

Luke Nieuwland
Owner/Operator
https://www.whiskyrun.com/
Co-Founder
https://birrdi.com/
Co-Founder
https://www.lakeeffect.ca/

ryanwanner

This has been a long time coming, @MichelleSQ. Im glad to see it launch in beta.
Has this been advertised in the seriously long ideate thread yet? I bet there would be a lot of interest from there…

Ryan Wanner
Golden Pine Coffee Roasters
Colorado Springs, CO, USA

Super Seller: I know stuff.
Beta Tester: I break stuff.
he/him/hey you/coffee guy/whatever.

Happy Selling!

MichelleSQ

@ryanwanner can you link me to that specific thread? I was worried about touching it so late in the week, as I'm not online to manage the incoming requests this weekend + Monday, and I didn't want to hold up anybody from being able to use it asap!

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ryanwanner

@MichelleSQ

Here you go! With all 700 replies to it. 🫣

Not sure how many of those sellers are still active Square users but I bet you’ll get some responses!

Ryan Wanner
Golden Pine Coffee Roasters
Colorado Springs, CO, USA

Super Seller: I know stuff.
Beta Tester: I break stuff.
he/him/hey you/coffee guy/whatever.

Happy Selling!

Callee1945

Great! I just set this up and we're testing it out. Warning to anyone setting it up... don't do it while your bar is open. I just installed the option and all of our current open tickets disappeared. Luckily, we only had 2 and they were regular customers so were happy (and patient) to help me test the feature!

We believe food is special!

DavidOhmann

@MichelleSQ we are currently using Point of Sale to do pre-auth, and requested to join the restaurant beta, but was denied because we weren’t using restaurant, but we weren’t on restaurants because we didn’t have access to pre-auth. Definitely a chicken or the egg situation.

MichelleSQ

Hi @DavidOhmann - I'm happy to add you to the restaurant beta given the circumstances.

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[US Only] Beta Test Bar Tabs Pre-Authorization with Square