Kludge — A kludge or kluge (/klʌdʒ, kluːdʒ/) is a workaround or quick-and-dirty solution that is clumsy, inelegant, inefficient.
It seems that lots of people are interested in sharing their positive private Square Feedback with the world. I’m sure Square is taking notice. For now, what I am going to post here is a kludge. It will do the job of giving you a PDF that you can share on your web site, which contains feedback from your Square account. At the bottom of this post, I’m including a screenshot of the resulting PDF for a few lines of the feedback I’ve received recently.
The spreadsheet that does this magic should be left alone. It is a template with usage instructions. To use it, duplicate the template to a new file, then import your Square CSV into the duplicate. That way, if you mess something up, you have a good place to restart.
For my purposes here, the only data fields on the public PDF are the date of the feedback, the initials of the feedback author and the actual feedback text.
I hope someone can find this useful. I can not attach a spreadsheet file here, since .CSV format will not work well for this kind of thing. I can, however, email it to anyone who is interested. Please private message me (@ChefChip) to coordinate that. I’ll need an email address to send it to. I can’t stress enough — DON’T leave your email address in a reply here. Only PM it to be safe.
Regards,
Chip
