Square Release Notes

Sellers attach add-on services to any bookable appointment — each with its own price and duration. Buyers select add-on services when booking an appointment online.

Sellers switch between measurement units while performing a full or cycle inventory count.

For example, a count can be recorded in individual units, cases, or other configured units without leaving the count screen.

Square Appointments supports a dark mode display option.

Sellers switch between light and dark themes based on their preference.

Sellers can exclude specific items from discount promotions, preventing those products from being discounted at checkout. Exclusions are set per item and apply across all channels where the item is active.

Sellers receive low-stock alert emails 90 minutes after each location's closing time, rather than at one fixed time for the whole account.

For sellers with several locations, each alert arrives at the end of that location's day instead of mid-shift.

No new setting or action required.

An opt-in setting on the expo Kitchen Display System (KDS) moves tickets to the front of the queue once all prep stations mark them complete. This helps expo staff prioritize orders that are ready for final assembly or handoff while other tickets still need prep work.

Sellers can now connect an external bank account to use as a funding source for bill payments. Previously, bills could only be funded by a debit card, credit card, or Square Checking account — so sellers who keep operating funds in an outside bank account had to leave Square to pay those vendors. This removes the need for a separate banking app to pay vendors from a business bank account, and keeps Square a one-stop shop for business banking.

Sellers schedule bulk price changes to catalog items from Dashboard.

Prices update automatically at the scheduled date and time.

Sellers can exempt or reduce sales tax on online orders based on whether the order is for pickup, delivery, or dine-in.

These conditions previously applied only to in-person orders.

A device setting separates each item's All Day count into “fired” and “held” totals. When enabled, a flame icon shows the fired count and a hold icon shows the held count, covering held courses on live tickets and fully-held upcoming tickets.

Eligible sellers in the US can accept SNAP EBT as a payment method directly through Square,* including in carts that mix EBT-eligible and non-eligible items. Square automatically splits the tender and adjusts taxes accordingly, with no manual work needed from the seller. Available in Retail mode on Square Register, Square Handheld, or Square Terminal. *Valid USDA FNS authorization required. Terms apply.

Sellers can customize the bottom navigation bar in Square Point of Sale by adding applets that were previously accessible only through the More menu. This gives direct, one-tap access to frequently used tools without navigating away from the main screen.

Staggered item prep times on Square KDS now account for the entire order, not just the items on each station's screen. Stations with quick items wait to fire so the whole order finishes together, and if a longer dish finishes early or is removed, waiting stations get an orange alert to start right away. Nothing to set up — devices with staggered item prep times on get this automatically.

The Consolidate identical items in the cart setting controls whether the same item added multiple times merges into a single line on Point of Sale. Turn it off to show each item on its own line, so staff can open and modify an individual item without splitting a grouped line first. The setting can be configured per mode.

Sellers now have more options when creating labels from Square Register. There are additional label sizes to choose from, plus more flexibility with content — including font styles and sizes, more fields to add, and more ways to organize what appears on each label.