thread Re: set start of work week in Reports Setup & Management

set start of work week

donutsue — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:29:30 GMT

Hi, bringing this up again as the last thread goes back to 2021. The work week is set in Square as Sunday to Saturday. Any hospitality business is open across the weekend and reporting should be Monday to Sunday. Can't do any banking on the weekend so why would Sunday be separated out! I do weekly reports and have to do it as a custom report. Even if I manually select the days in Sales Summary, then I click the right arrow to move one week forward it defaults back to Sunday to Saturday. So I have to manually select dates every time. Please fix this!

PS there seems to be an option to do this for staff scheduling (which I don't use) so sure the week should be able to be adjusted to run inline with this!

Re: set start of work week

TheRealChipA — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 01:13:05 GMT

Hey there @donutsue. As a fellow seller who requested this years ago, I’m totally on board. Please give me a little time. 24 hours. I’m checking on a few things I think I know but want to be sure, first. And I’m also testing out a Square AI solution that, so far, is looking pretty promising.

Stay tuned.

Re: set start of work week

TheRealChipA — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 01:20:03 GMT

@donutsue oops. I now see you are “down under,” as it were. So a Square AI solution won’t be of much use to you in the short term. Apologies for that oversight. Still my post applies. I’ll touch base soon enough.

Re: set start of work week

AlexNewStreet — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:03:53 GMT

Was there ever any update to the ability to change the default start date. This should be easy enough to do as part of the business preferences. (Especially when the default on the Staff Sheets is Monday - Sunday!)

Re: set start of work week

filletandbone — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:11:08 GMT

Hi @donutsue , did you ever get an answer/ solution to this? It is definitely a source of frustration for us!

@TheRealChipA would your potential AI solution work for us in the UK?

Thanks. Tom

Re: set start of work week

TheRealChipA — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:27:12 GMT

@filletandbone It will not, yet. Square AI is not yet available outside the US. It might be a while since Square can’t roll out the product without ensuring it meets other countries’ AI regulations, all of which are different.

Re: set start of work week

filletandbone — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:42:21 GMT

Thanks @TheRealChipA , understood.

Re: set start of work week

MEQAntics — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 03:22:58 GMT

Also in an industry where the weekend is an integral part of the week, and frustrated by the fact that I cannot change a simple setting that every accounting software on the planet has.
It did not used to bother me as much, but now that I have started up again, I am thinking about trying another payment processor if they have the feature.

Re: set start of work week

EmBo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:03:17 GMT

Please Square, if you are listening, allow us to change the date settings on all devices!!!!

We want to choose what day we start our work week! You have shortcuts '1 week' for reporting but it is of NO USE if you can't choose when your week starts.