How to Retrieve Individual Food and/or Drink Orders from Square POS?

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Hello guys,

I am new to Square API and I was not able to find an answer to my question in the Forum:

I want to get individual orders from a restaurant from e.g. which Food or Drink Items were ordered at a specific table.

My Question: Is this even possible with the provided API and if yes, are there examples that show how this can be done?

Thank you guys in advance, I hope that I didn’t oversee similar posts.

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Yes, it is possible to retrieve individual orders using the Square API. You can use the Orders API to retrieve detailed information about orders. Each order is represented by an Order object, which provides detailed information about a commerce-related event, such as a sale, fulfillment, return, or exchange.

You can use the RetrieveOrder endpoint to retrieve a specific order by its ID. This will give you detailed information about the order, including line items (which represent the individual items that were ordered), discounts, service charges, taxes, and more.

For example, if you want to know which food or drink items were ordered at a specific table, you can retrieve the order associated with that table (assuming you have a way to associate orders with tables), and then look at the line items in the order to see what was ordered.

There are also endpoints to search for orders based on various criteria (SearchOrders), and to retrieve multiple orders at once (BatchRetrieveOrders).

Please note that you will need to have the necessary permissions to access order data. If you’re accessing orders for a specific Square account, you’ll need to use an access token associated with that account.

This answer was reviewed by @Bryan-Square.

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Also please note that the order will have to be fully paid for in order for it to be returned with the Orders API. If your looking for open tickets on the POS with table information that currently isn’t available with our APIs. :slightly_smiling_face: