How to Set Up a House Account (For Employee Food)

Updated 5 months ago

This lesson demonstrates how to setup house accounts for an employee. A house account allows an employee to charge food or merchandise to their pay check.


Setting up House Accounts


Toast uses the concept of "House Accounts" for all employee meals and merchandise that is being "charged to the employee's time card".  Before an employee can charge something to their house account, they must first have a house account setup.


Setting up House Accounts:


Setting up a House Account

From the homepage of Toast online, find House Accounts under the Payment Options section.

 

Enabling House Accounts

On the House Accounts page select the option to enable House Accounts as a payment method in the POS. This enables the features generally, but can still be user permissions for use of the features can be controlled elsewhere and will be addressed later in this article.

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Creating a House Account

Use the button to "Create New Account". The setup page for creating this account will prompt for information regarding the account:



Save to complete creating the account.