topic Re: Round up or down to nearest nickel in Fast Casual

Round up or down to nearest nickel

bsanderon — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:50:32 GMT

We want to eliminate pennies at checkout. not seeing any ready solution. Any suggestions ?

Re: Round up or down to nearest nickel

Rob — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 03:16:31 GMT

Thanks for commenting. Unfortunately, we don't currently allow this function.

Re: Round up or down to nearest nickel

JaynelleS — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 20:29:27 GMT

You could attach the fundraiser button to the end of sales, it would round it up to the nearest dollar or .25. You could then give the extra money to a local shelter, or non profit group of your choice

Re: Round up or down to nearest nickel

Light — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 19:19:11 GMT

Hello Bsanderon,

I want to share my experience dealing with coins, hope it helps.

I decided to use Tax Inclusion option for menu item prices.

I raised prices by my state tax rate + round up

ex. $10 + (6%) = $10.60, I round it up to $11.

Details can be found here:

https://central.toasttab.com/s/article/Tax-Inclusion-Tax-Included-Tax-Not-Included-and-Smart-Tax-1493052974671

This helped both me and my customers to not deal with coins. Even if have to, they are mostly quarters.

Also, I'm looking to see less customers using cash since I now have online menu and they can just checkout on their phone.

Best Luck!

Re: Round up or down to nearest nickel

SandCherryCheri — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 23:01:56 GMT

Love this idea. We're launching a food truck soon and this will be very helpful. Thank you for sharing!

Re: Round up or down to nearest nickel

bsanderon — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:39:23 GMT

is anyone using the include tax option? how is it reporting taxes in back office? Central Help section not mention this part. I am just concerned about tax included... leaves me to do the tax report for paying the taxes to the state monthly. Also how it it showing it handle modifiers added to base item, some modifiers raise item cost and tax too?? In California we have heat item tax, vs cold item. as well as dine in and 2 go tax so that comes into play. I rather wait until toast makes a round up option on checks to eliminate most coins. seems to make more work for me at end of day to include tax in menu price. thanks

Re: Round up or down to nearest nickel

RD — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 19:55:14 GMT

Rob, is this a function that Toast is looking to implement?

Re: Round up or down to nearest nickel

Rob — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 18:53:38 GMT

Hey, @RD, currently, I have not seen any initiatives to allow an option to eliminate pennies at checkout. I did some digging, and it seems the best way to do this would be to convert your menu to have Tax Include items like what was mentioned earlier in this thread. The rounding option we currently have is limited to taxes.

Configure Tax Inclusion Option

Re: Round up or down to nearest nickel

jrintelman — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:07:08 GMT

This is an old post, so I'm wondering if there is an update given the end of pennies by the Fed, will Toast be giving us an option to round to the nearest nickel?

Re: Round up or down to nearest nickel

FlordaTeaLounge — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:04:50 GMT

This would be incredibly helpful! Also interested in updates!

Re: Round up or down to nearest nickel

bobbilo — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:52:01 GMT

I am wondering this too!

Re: Round up or down to nearest nickel

Rob — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:05:58 GMT

For anyone looking for more details, you can find additional information here:
Configure Cash Rounding During Penny Phase Out

This topic is also being discussed in this thread, and I will post further updates here if/when they become available!
Pennies