[Roundup] 🦇 October 2024 🦇 Product Updates and New Features

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Hi community friends! 😊

Hoping everyone had a great Halloween and that we are all cruising into the end of the year with smooth sailing! Here is the October 2024 roundup of all the new product updates posted in the US Seller Community.

The Roundup

1. [New] Square Reader for Magstripe with USB-C Compatibility
2. [New] Royalty and Fee Calculation and Reporting on Square for Franchises
3. [Improvement] Introducing Scheduling Gantt View
4. [Announcement] Fresh KDS Offers the Ability to Stay on iPad KDS
5. [New] Sales Trends Reporting on Square for Franchises
6. [Improved] Brand Editor
7. [Improvement] Manager Approval Workflow Now Available on Team App and Dashboard App

1. [New] Square Reader for Magstripe with USB-C Compatibility

🏷 Square Reader

We are excited to announce that Square Reader for magstripe is now available with USB-C. Square Reader for magstripe (USB-C) enables you to take swipe payments by plugging in directly to the USB-C port on your tablet or mobile device, compatible with most USB-C Apple and Android devices (requires iOS 15.0+ or Android 7.0+).

➡️ Read the full update 

2. [New] Royalty and Fee Calculation and Reporting on Square for Franchises

🏷️ Square for Franchises

(also available in 🇨🇦 and 🇦🇺)

You can now calculate fees such as royalties, marketing expenditure, and more to help give you a better understanding of your business’ revenue streams. You can set custom fees under a percentage or fixed rate with the included predetermined formulas.

➡️ Read the full update

3. [Improvement] Introducing Scheduling Gantt View

🏷️ Square Dashboard, Square Staff & Payroll

(also available in 🇨🇦, 🇦🇺, and 🇬🇧)

One gap for creating schedules has been the inability to visualize scheduled shifts on an hour-by-hour level to assess coverage. Until now, each shift was represented as an identical block on the schedule rather than across a time scale making it hard for sellers to spot gaps in staffing. Now, sellers can easily assess coverage and make seamless adjustments to their schedule to dial up or down staffing each day.

➡️ Read the full update

4. [Announcement] Fresh KDS Offers the Ability to Stay on iPad KDS

🏷 Android

As you should have seen by now, we are sunsetting Square KDS on iPad, which means that to keep using the same app, you need to migrate to Android and redownload from the Google Play store. If you are strongly against moving to Android as a hardware or operating system option, we wanted to flag that you do have the ability to migrate over to our preferred partner, Fresh KDS. 

➡️ Read the full update 

5. [New] Sales Trends Reporting on Square for Franchises

🏷️ Square for Franchises

(also available in 🇨🇦 and 🇦🇺)

You can now get a birds-eye view of your entire business’ performance. Sales trends reporting can be used to get an idea of how your business is doing by helping you identify strengths and weaknesses within your organization. It can also help you get comparative insights between each of your locations to understand how your franchisees are performing.

➡️ Read the full update

6. [Improved] Brand Editor

🏷️ Square Dashboard

(also available in 🇨🇦, 🇦🇺, and 🇬🇧)

One gap for creating schedules has been the inability to visualize scheduled shifts on an hour-by-hour level to assess coverage. Until now, each shift was represented as an identical block on the schedule rather than across a time scale making it hard for sellers to spot gaps in staffing. Now, sellers can easily assess coverage and make seamless adjustments to their schedule to dial up or down staffing each day.

➡️ Read the full update

7. [Improvement] Manager Approval Workflow Now Available on Team App and Dashboard App

🏷️ Square Staff & Payroll

(also available in 🇨🇦, 🇦🇺, and 🇬🇧)

Managers and team members who have the permissions are now able to review, approve and decline team member schedules, timecards, and availability requests directly in the Team app and Dashboard app. 

➡️ Read the full update

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[TCSlaguna]

We are loving the scheduling Gantt view. Makes determining optimal staffing easy! 

[maxpete]

Loving these round ups!

[kristen]

📣 special shoutout to @tonydow for giving me the idea to include flags when features are available outside of the US! I really appreciated your note on one of my previous roundups and wanted to include it so I could give more info for our sellers all over the globe. 

PS... if you click the flag icons they'll take you right to the relevant local post! 😊

[Mobilebarn]

Loving the flags so international sellers know if the feature is available to them! Thanks for all you guys do.

[VanKalkerFarms]

Love these posts.  so good to see all that happens in a month in one spot.  things can get lost over the month.  For example I did not see the launch of the USB-C swipe reader.