[Board] Square Register

[Justin Gray]

Did Square's support team say if there may be an add-on application that would allow for selling gas?

Justin Gray
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From: Board [mailto:board-bounces at portsmouthyc.org] On Behalf Of Nancy Gulley
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 11:44 AM
To: Board of Directors <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<mailto: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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