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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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Actually I only read the first part of the comments in my email and saw that there was an update. So I restarted my app because I couldn't find it. Then I went to see if there was a new update. Then I restarted my Ipad only to read the remaining comments..... hahahaha. And the waiting continues.....

YES PLEASE Square make the category icons editable like the item ones (in particular with a picture)...

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Love that we can do this now! Thank you!

 

Any hope for customizing Discount buttons next?

Please share how you are able to do this?  I don't seem to see it.

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Of course!

If you have the latest version of Square POS installed on your mobile device, you can now edit the Category icon the same way you edit an Item icon!

If it's on the home screen of Square, tap and hold on the icon of the category for Item Setup, then tap again to edit, and Tap to Edit again on the icon, and edit away!

If it's not on the home screen, go into the left hand menu, tap on Items, and then Categories, find your category of choice, and tap Edit Category, and Tap to Edit the icon.


Hope this helps! It's been working great for us!

So it isn't available on the dashboard?  Just on the POS?

Oh, and can you change it to a picture?

Hello @bfcstore, it is only on the Point of Sale app for now. You can edit the color of the category and the text. We do not have the ability to upload an image for the category icon. 

I downloaded the app and started testing it, so I get to the basic part of adding pictures to category and I see is not possible. How can the developers missed such a basic but important component? then I try to get answers and I find this is something alot of sellers have requested since more than a year ago, but the answer from square is "Our programers are tracking this request"

Does it really take a year to listen to clients request for something so simple? I'm having serious thoughts as to continue testing square as an option for our restaurants. 🙂

I would love to be able to add a picture to a category. Please put this on your "to do" list. Reading through all the replies, people have been asking for this for over a year...and still nothing in the works.