One order, everyone adds their own
Someone opens an order and shares a link. Everyone else picks their own food and pays for it — and your kitchen gets one ticket, not eleven.
The office lunch currently runs on a group chat and one person’s card
Somebody collects orders in a message thread, somebody else fronts the money, and a week later they are still chasing four people for six dollars. Restaurants lose that order to whoever makes it least annoying.
Group ordering makes it a normal order. The organiser opens one, shares the link, and everyone adds their own items in your app. Each person pays for what they chose, or the organiser picks up the whole tab — set when the order is created.
You get one order, assembled by the people ordering it, with every line already attributed to whoever asked for it.
How a group order runs
Included on every plan, for pickup and delivery alike.
Share a link
The organiser opens an order and sends one link. No accounts to create before anyone can add to it.
Everyone adds their own
Each person picks their own items in your app, so nobody is transcribing an order from a message thread.
Split, or organiser pays
Each person pays for what they chose, or one person covers the lot. Chosen when the order is opened.
One ticket to the kitchen
However many people added to it, it reaches Square as a single order with the lines attributed.
Pickup or delivery
A group order fulfils like any other, including dispatch to a courier — see [delivery](/restaurant-delivery).
Bigger than a group?
For the orders that need notice and a minimum, [catering](/restaurant-catering) has its own rules.
Questions, answered
One person starts it and shares a link. Everyone else opens it in your app, adds their own items, and either pays for their own or leaves it to the organiser. It closes when the organiser submits, and reaches you as one order.
Whichever you allow. Each person can pay for what they chose, or the organiser can cover the whole order — decided when the order is opened rather than argued about afterwards.
One. It arrives in Square as a single order, with each line attributed to the person who added it, so the pass knows whose is whose without a second system.
Yes, the same way any other order is — dispatched to a courier with live tracking. Delivery covers how the fee works.
No. Group ordering is about who assembles and pays for an order. Catering is about the rules a large order has to satisfy — notice, minimums, and the dates you can take one.
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