[Board] Square Register

[Roy Briscoe]

Good question.  If they get it fixed in the 1 month or so, maybe we can limp along with the temporary workaround while things are slow. But if it is longer than that maybe we don't want use the workaround because we will probably have to explain why there are two entries on the receipt to everyone and the dockhands will have to remember to add the 2nd line.
Good job with the testing to find the issue.
Do we have to deal with complying with PCI requirements if we use the Quickbooks POS?
Roy

Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 11:44:24 -0400
From: nancgulley at gmail.com
To: board at portsmouthyc.org
Subject: Re: [Board] Square Register

Does  Square have any idea as to how soon they might have a solution?Nanc

On Friday, April 1, 2016,  <stardot at comcast.net> wrote:


 All -
(I know it is April 1 but this is not an April Fool's prank.) I have been working to set up Square Register and have gone through almost all of the necessary setup. In many ways, I like it much better than QuickBooks POS and I was planning to implement it at Docks In. I have been testing sales using  small amounts of money and that all worked fine, but yesterday I was caught off guard by what may be an important issue. It seems that Square sells things only in unit quantities - you can't sell a fraction of an item. This makes it difficult to sell 14.7 gallons of gas. We can easily sell in units of 1/10 of a gallon, 147 tenth gallons instead of  14.7 gallons, but this means the price per gallon would always be multiples of a dime (18 cents per tenth gallon would  be $1.80 per gallon, 19 cents per tenth gallon would be $1.90 per gallon, etc. and you can't make a price with fractions of a penny). Another option, probably better, would be to sell the whole  gallons at the desired price per gallon and enter any tenths as a separate item. Square says they are working on it, lots of businesses want to hook up a scale or sell in fractions of a pound, but for today a fraction of a unit is not a feature. 
 
I need some feedback - do you consider this to be a dealbreaker? QuickBooks POS is still fully functional. Rounding the price per gallon up or down a penny or two would not be a big deal, and we don't have so many fuel sales that entering two line items would be a huge hassle, but either way is less than optimal. Please let me know  your thoughts.
Doyle 		 	   		  
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