[Board] Square Register

[stardot at comcast.net]

Square support cannot say when new features may be included. They send me lots of  emails so I would guess they would inform me when new features are added. And Apple tells you when an upgrade is available for an app. I looked for an add-on, but there aren't many and none add that feature. 
And, yes, going back to QB POS would entail PCI compliance with all that entails, including paying someone for quarterly intrusion detection testing. I would prefer to not deal with that. 
  
Options (with my two cents worth): 
1. QB POS, full PCI compliance (PITA) 
2. QB POS, PCI compliance when we get around to it (iffy) 
3. Square, charge gallons and tenths separately (minor hassle) 
4. Square, charge by tenths with price per gallon a multiple of 10 cents (who would notice?) 
5. Square, round the gallons up or down for each sale (rounding up could be problematic) 
6. Square, figure out the sale on a calculator and enter it manually (most error-prone) 
7. ??? 

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From: "Justin Gray" <jgray at promocentric.com> 
To: "Board of Directors" <board at portsmouthyc.org> 
Sent: Friday, April 1, 2016 11:59:00 AM 
Subject: Re: [Board] Square Register 

  


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

  


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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 > 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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