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Feature Request: Customize category icons, and add photos to categories like items

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Feature Request: Customize category icons, and add photos to categories like items

The title of this post has been edited from the original: Can you apply pictures for categories?

 

Would LOVE to be able to add a picture to each Category I create. I see we can add a picture for items but not for categories. Could you send a request for a future update for this? Would make our Square Register screen so much nicer and prettier. Thank you.

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Re: Feature Request: Customize category icons, and add photos to categories like items

Yeah... still waiting for this...

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Re: Pictures for Categories

Hello @ryanwnzl  

 

I know this thread has been around the sun a couple of times now. I've gone ahead and reached out to our Item Library Product Manager for an update. Currently this request is on the backlog and we're not expecting it to be implemented anytime soon. I understand this isn't the answer a lot of sellers want to hear, but I want to be as transparent as possible.

 

There are a lot of factors that come into play when prioritizing feature requests - comments like all of yours on this thread are one of the big inputs our product teams take into consideration. However, there are other things to consider as well -  build time, engineering bandwidth, and cost to name a few, as well as balancing this request with others that may take up time from the same engineering group.

 

I know there are 8 pages of comments about this issue, and it is a lot. Some of these factors like engineering bandwidth are less visible to you all, which is why I wanted to give a little insight into some of the behind-the-scenes work.

 

Thank you for your patience, and understanding - our eng teams are working on other features that we hope make POS even better for you. If we have updates on this thread, we'll post them here. All of you who have commented are already subscribed, and anyone new to the thread can click the "Subscribe" link on the first page.

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Alumni

Hi @Cornerscafe, while you can add a picture to your items (http://squ.re/1s6w80M), you can't add a picture to your categories.

Alumni

Hey @Ron! The ability to add pictures to categories is definitely a popular feature request that we've heard from our sellers. I can definitely understand how the Register screen would be more helpful, as well as colorful, with this functionality. I'll be sure to pass along your feedback to our product liasion team! 

Super Seller Alumni

Thanks so much George 🙂

Beta Member

Second the request for catagory images.  Less to do with being colorful, more to do with the menu category being recognizable.  Thanks.

Square

Thanks for requesting that! We will send that along to our Product Liaison Team. 

I would also like images for categories, esp since longer category names are cut off in shortcut/favorites view of iPad

+1 on this.  Or at least being able to assign different colors to different categories for quick visual distinction.

I use images for various items, but it would be nice to use an image or icon for the front panel of the register.  Is there a way to do so?

Adding another vote for this request!