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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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Any updates on this request? 

Would we ever be able to add pictures to categories?

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Agree with other posters.  Pictures on categories much more meaningful in a cafe/restaurant setting.

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Hi @El-Carne and @TwistedRail, thank you for checking in. I went to check for an update and there aren't any developments available at this time.

 

While I don't have access to more details currently, rest assured that I've let our Product Liaison team know that you asked about this. We will circle back with any other announcements. Thank you for your patience as we're working to improve!

Yes please update the app to include photos for categories. Would be really helpful!

Hi, so this was March 2016. How long does it take you guys to provide this feature for sellers and how did you guys not recognize this in the first place??? I don't get it. 

Yo, this is more than a year ago. Come on guys. Get it together. 

I agree that images for categories are important for a restaurant industry.  I own two restaurants and it would be much easier for my companies to have images for the boxes instead of the name of the category.  Please keep us informed about the progress of this, as it has been a year since the question was asked first.

 

Thank you.

Hello @Jalapenogrill! We are still tracking this feature request.

 

Even the best feature requests take time for our team to build. Our Product Managers take a lot of things into consideration when developing new features and addressing limitations of current features. Customer feedback is one huge piece of the puzzle that impacts prioritization, but it’s not the only piece.

 

If there are any updates we will make an announcement in this thread. 

Having pictures for a Category at our Elks Lodge would be Great!  Please add this to your Application in Squareup Dashboard

 

This post was started in December of 2016 and it shows as being SOLVED. Yet it hasn't been solved. What's up with that?