Split payment

What it’s for

You used to have to pick a single payment method for the whole sale. Now you can split one payment across several — say, part in cash and the rest by card — without breaking the sale into two receipts.

It’s available in:

• Quick sale (touch), at the counter and when collecting a table’s bill
• New sale
• Quick sale (the non-fiscal form)
• Converting a proforma into an invoice
• Recording a customer’s credit payment

How the split works

1. Collect with the usual payment method

   The main payment method still goes on top of the payment screen, same as before: cash, card, transfer, whatever applies.

2. Add another payment method, if needed

   Below it there’s a button to add a second payment method. The system proposes the amount still owed right away.

3. Adjust that method's amount

   Enter what was actually collected with it. Whatever’s left over or still owed moves back to the first payment method automatically, so the two always add up to the sale’s exact total.

4. Check the split indicator

   While there’s still money left to assign, the system tells you. If the split goes over — the amounts add up to more than the total — it warns you and won’t let you collect until it’s fixed.

Good to know

Cash always goes on top, as the main method. It’s the only payment method that handles change, counts denominations, and tells currencies apart, so the system always keeps it first in the split.

Up to four payment methods per receipt. That limit comes from Hacienda, not from the system. A gift card counts as one more payment method toward that limit — see Gift cards.

You can’t split between two cards on the same invoice. The receipt only has room for one card authorization number, and with two card charges there would be no way to tell which one it belongs to. Charge the second card on a separate receipt.

The discount drops entirely if any payment method in the split doesn’t allow it. A business can have payment methods with discounts turned off (see Roles); if one of those is part of the split, the discount disappears from the whole sale, not just that part. It only survives if every payment method in the split allows it.

Proformas and orders don’t ask for a card authorization number. At that point the customer hasn’t run their card yet, so that field doesn’t show up until the document is converted into an invoice.

Closing the register and the Transactions report already split each amount into its correct payment method. A sale collected half in cash, half by card adds half to the drawer and the other half to the card total — it doesn’t show up whole on either side. See Register and Transactions.