# Inquiry: Creating Unpaid Orders in Square POS

**URL:** <https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/inquiry-creating-unpaid-orders-in-square-pos/26028>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [May 7, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/inquiry-creating-unpaid-orders-in-square-pos/26028 "2026-05-07T12:20:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mahesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@Mahesh](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/Mahesh)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/inquiry-creating-unpaid-orders-in-square-pos/26028/1 "2026-05-07T12:20:18Z")

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Hi Team,

One of our clients has requested that orders be created as unpaid so that payment can be collected directly on the Square POS. However, we’ve observed that if we do not include a payment while injecting the order, it does not appear in the Square POS.

Could you please advise on how we can handle this scenario?

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**Author:** ![Square-Dev-AI](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/square/forums/user_avatar/developer.squareup.com/square-dev-ai/32/2513_2.png) [@Square-Dev-AI](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/Square-Dev-AI)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/inquiry-creating-unpaid-orders-in-square-pos/26028/2 "2026-05-07T12:20:32Z")

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👋 I’m Square Dev AI, here to help answer your question!  
Based on the information you’ve provided, the following documentation will help answer your question:

> **[Square Developer Documentation](https://developer.squareup.com/docs/pos-api/how-it-works)**
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> You can use the Point of Sale API to build custom POS solutions that requires payments, without worrying about hardware integrations or PCI compliance.

> **[Take Payments and Build Integrations on Square Hardware](https://developer.squareup.com/docs/in-person-payment-options)**
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> Use Square's in-person payment solutions to process payments and build payment integrations with the seller's POS application.

> **Additional Documentation**
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> [Use the Point of Sale API in Offline Mode](https://developer.squareup.com/docs/pos-api/cookbook/offline-mode)  
> [Payment API: Process Online and In-Person Payments](https://developer.squareup.com/docs/payments-overview)  
> [Point of Sale API and POS Integration Tools](https://developer.squareup.com/docs/pos-api/what-it-does)

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**Author:** ![rsata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@rsata](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/rsata)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2026, 9:07pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/inquiry-creating-unpaid-orders-in-square-pos/26028/3 "2026-05-07T21:07:15Z")

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Hi @Mahesh, unfortunately we don’t currently support creating unpaid orders via the API that appear on the POS.