# Enable First-Party Delivery (DELIVERY fulfillment) for a single-location restaurant on the Orders API **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Tags:** orders-api, beta\ **Created:** [August 18, 2026, 9:22pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/enable-first-party-delivery-delivery-fulfillment-for-a-single-location-restaurant-on-the-orders-api/27241 "2026-08-18T21:22:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ameliasaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@ameliasaz](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/ameliasaz)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 9:22pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/enable-first-party-delivery-delivery-fulfillment-for-a-single-location-restaurant-on-the-orders-api/27241/1 "2026-08-18T21:22:58Z")
We’re a production Square merchant — a single-location restaurant in Scottsdale, AZ — running our own website ordering directly on the Orders API. We’re live on production with real catalog, payments and orders through `/v2/orders` and `/v2/payments`. I’m trying to get `DELIVERY` fulfillments working end to end, and I believe the blocker is that our account isn’t enrolled in First-Party Delivery. **What happens** - `POST /v2/orders` with a `DELIVERY` fulfillment returns 200. The order exists and can be retrieved through the Orders API, with recipient and address populated. - Payment attaches successfully through the Payments API. - But the order never appears in Order Manager, never reaches KDS, and doesn’t auto-fire to the kitchen printer. - `PICKUP` fulfillments on the same account, same application and same location behave perfectly — Order Manager, KDS and automatic kitchen printing all work. So the pipeline itself is sound; this is specific to `DELIVERY`. This matches the documented gated behaviour: > Requests to create a DELIVERY fulfillment order succeed with a 200 response even if you > don’t have a partnership agreement and are enrolled in the delivery beta program. > However, the delivery order you create cannot be accessed by a seller and does not > appear in the Square Order Manager. **Our use case** We are a single-location restaurant taking delivery orders on our own website, for our own restaurant. We are not a delivery platform, a courier marketplace, or a multi-merchant ordering aggregator. We dispatch the courier ourselves. I understand from “Delivery Integration” (topic 25251) that Orders API orders don’t push to Square’s built-in DoorDash/Uber integrations, and we’re not asking for that. We only need paid DELIVERY orders to be visible to the seller so the kitchen can see and print them. **What I’m asking** Could a Square staff member either (a) enroll/flag our account for First-Party Delivery, or (b) point me to the exact process for a merchant of this profile? I’ve seen the same request resolved this way in topics 26868 and 26705 — both single-restaurant, own-driver use cases — so I want to make sure I’m in the right queue rather than the partnership application one. Happy to share Merchant ID, Location ID and Application ID by DM. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![jseok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@jseok](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/jseok)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 11:38pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/enable-first-party-delivery-delivery-fulfillment-for-a-single-location-restaurant-on-the-orders-api/27241/4 "2026-08-19T23:38:25Z")
Hi @ameliasaz - Unfortunately, access to first-party delivery fulfillment types are available to certified Square partners only. If the issue only involves ensuring the ticket prints properly in the kitchen, the recommendation would be to use a different fulfillment (like `SHIPMENT`) for tickets denoting a delivery.