Hi Seller Community!
Here we are in the middle of December - 2021 certainly flies by! As we get ready for the festive season, we want to take this time to review feature requests and product launches from the second half of the year.
You can find our round up of feature requests for the first six months of 2021 here.
Let’s look at what has been rolled out!
Square for Restaurants
🍽️ Mark an Item as Sold Out with Square, and 86 Items with Square for Restaurants
You can now mark an item as Sold Out (or 86-ing) an item from your Square Point of Sale app, Square for Restaura.... This will prevent it from being sold online and team members will see a warning before adding it to tickets in-house.
🖨 Prioritising Tickets, Item Recall & Highlighted Modifiers on KDS
We’ve added several new features to Square KDS, including: print order tickets from KDS, prioritising tickets, recalling specific items within tickets, and highlighting modifiers and variations! Read more about these features in the Seller Community.
Square Online:
👇 We released several updates to Square Online recently! 👇
🧾 Open Tabs for Self Serve Orderings
Starting from now, you can enable Open Tabs for self-serve ordering, which allows your customers to open a tab and continue adding items to their existing bill and only close the tab at the end of their visit. Read more about this new feature.
🖼️ Customer reviews with images
Your customers can now add images along with their product reviews, making reviews more powerful for shoppers. Reviews are available on the Performance and Premium plans.
📍 Location-specific item modifiers
Assign different modifiers to an item depending on its location. Now you don't need to create multiple copies of the same item for each location.
🍪 Cookie consent management
Remain compliant with your local consumer data privacy laws using our updated cookie consent management module.
📦 Item-level shipping rates
You can now set up custom shipping profiles to create special shipping rates for specific items.
📷 Square’s Photo Studio App
With the new stand alone Photo Studio by Square app, you can easily take professional-looking product photos, save it to your phone or upload it to your Square’s Item Library with just a few clicks!
Square Appointments
🧑🤝🧑 Multi-staff appointment scheduling
We want to create a better booking experience with this update, allowing customers to book multiple employees on a single appointment via a single transaction, with tips automatically and proportionately split. Read more in our Product Update.
📅 Find a time when Creating and Editing your Appointments on Square Dashboard
This new feature lets you check your availability all in one place on your Appointments Dashboard to help avoid any accidental double bookings and allow you to find a time that works for you and your customer. See the changes in action here.
New Softwares
🎁 Introducing Square Loyalty
Square Loyalty, an integrated digital rewards programme that you can run directly from Square Point of Sale — without any additional software, hardware, or punch cards is now available in the UK!
📮 Grow Your Business with Square’s Email Marketing Software
You can now design, send custom emails and set up automated campaigns directly from your Square account with Square Marketing. Learn more about it in our Product Update.
Square for Retail
🏷️ Auto-generate SKUs with Square for Retail
With Square for Retail, you can now automatically generate unique SKUs when you add a new item variation OR create a new barcode label. Find out how you can start using this feature in our Support Centre.
Square Gift Cards:
💳 Sell digital eGift Cards in bulk!
Just in time for the festive season, now your customers can purchase multiple digital eGift Cards at one time through your online eGift Card order site.
💻 Reload gift cards online
Need to add more funds to their eGift Cards? Customers can now reload their existing gift cards online through your online Square Gift Card order site.
Hardware
📲 Connect your Terminal to your Square Point of Sale
You can now wirelessly connect your Square Terminal to your Square Point of Sale app on a Square Stand, iPad, tablet or mobile device for a dedicated customer display and checkout device!
Thank you to everyone who participated in our betas and helped us test out products before they launched. If you’re interested in this, please join the Beta Community. Your thoughts and voices are important — thank you for sharing your great feedback and suggestions.
From all the Seller Community - have a wonderful festive season!