thread Re: Square service description formatting in Community Corner

Square service description formatting

schembri — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 08:30:00 GMT

Hi there,

I'm new to square and using the appointments function to book different services which are delivered on-site at a customer's premesis.

The service description seems to be very limited in it's scope. I cannot find a way to add any formatting or even line breaks to the description. Is there anyway to avoid having a giant unformatted wall of text for longer descriptions?

Thanks

Re: Square service description formatting

tomven — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 21:42:30 GMT

Hi Schembri,

Agreed, a right text formatting option would be awesome for service descriptions. We’ve just used plain text ie hyphens in place of bullets or // to divide call outs / key messages when the text groups together in areas of Square for our business. We use our website to have more information about certain services and just push people to the booking tool from there. It’s not perfect, but does the trick. It also forces us to be more succinct in our messaging (which isn’t a bad thing, we all know no one reads anything properly these days anyway!). Less is more.

Re: Square service description formatting

Arie — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 05:09:27 GMT

Hi @schembri,

Thank you for writing in and welcome to the seller community 👋 😊

While the text can't be formatted differently, @tomven shared some great tips here! I'll go ahead and pass your feedback onto our Appointments team for consideration.

Re: Square service description formatting

JDP333 — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 22:55:43 GMT

What has the Appointments Team decided about this really easy coding fix? Do Square customers pay enough to have paragraphs in service descriptions so they look professional for clients?

Square has one basic job: Automated Appointment Booking

Professional presentation of service descriptions is just about as basic as it gets. Why hasn't this been done after Square customers have been asking for years? What's the excuse?

Re: Square service description formatting

MandysMuddyPaws — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 02:37:23 GMT

Yep... seriously?? c'mon - very basic feature that is needed!