Last updated: Jan 28, 2026, 11:25 AM
Toast can support an unlimited number of additional and alternative payment options (non-cash/non-credit) to be accepted by your restaurant. Popular options include third-party order & delivery sites like Grubhub and Eat24, coupon and deal sites like Groupon and LivingSocial, advanced deposit reservation sites like OpenTable and SevenRooms, and paper gift certificates or money orders. Add any non-cash/non-credit option in Toast Web, and you can accept it on the POS and track the reports right away.
You can also use the steps described below to set up a payment option if you expect some guests to pay with a paper check. You will be responsible for depositing checks into your bank account, the same way you handle cash. See the section on to learn how to find these payment options displayed on your reports.
To apply other payment types to a check on the POS:
Learn more about taking payments in this Toast Central article, .
This method also works if you have a guest who wants to pay with a paper gift certificate for just part of the check. Your guest can deduct however much from their gift certificate that they wish. When the guest is ready to pay, enter the amount of money that they'd like to apply to the check (from the gift certificate) and select the Paper Gift Certificate payment option that you've set up. The guest can then pay the remaining balance with whichever tender they’d prefer.
If this gift certificate does not have any digital source (i.e., it has no barcode or serial number), you’ll need to devise a trustworthy way to accurately track your guest’s remaining balance, such as signing and dating it by hand.
One way to view the payment option used for each check is on the Payments report.
To learn more about sales reporting, see this Toast Central article, .
If set to YES (default value), there is no change on the POS from the current state. If set to NO, the button will not show on the payment selection screen.