Product Updates

Read all about Square's latest feature upgrades and new releases.
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Quickly find items, enter amounts, and add products to the cart with a USB or bluetooth keyboard. With keyboard shortcuts on iOS, you can now navigate your POS, key in prices and quantities, and search your catalog or customers without touching the screen.
The new edition of Square Releases is here! This volume brings new tools to help retailers make smarter decisions, simplify omnichannel selling, and streamline reporting and compliance.
We’re excited to share something new — Square’s Product Roadmap!
Hi retail sellers! We’re excited to share the latest features for retailers from the Spring 2025 edition of Square Releases — designed to help you move faster, sell smarter, and grow your business.
With the latest update of Square Point of Sale, we have introduced modes. Modes allow you to access industry-specific features that were previously only available through downloading one of Square’s other POS apps.
Busy retail owners have been asking for an easier way to stay on top of feature launches and updates. So today we’re introducing The Check Out, a retail release by Square. 
We’re excited to announce that you can now link Square’s Kitchen Display System to your Square for Retail POS, allowing you to send orders to the kitchen and make retail sales all in one transaction.
We are excited to introduce our newest feature, forecasted labor costs. Available with any Shifts plan or Retail, Restaurant, and Appointments Plus or Premium plan. 
We are excited to introduce our newest feature, clock-in geofencing. Available with a Shifts Plus, Retail Plus, Restaurants Plus, and Appointments premium subscription. 
Since introducing Square for Retail Plus in 2017, we have launched over 100 features including inventory stock counting, sell-through inventory reporting, and Cost of Good Sold reporting. Starting November 14, 2023, the Square for Retail Plus subscription will reflect an updated price of $89/month per location for new subscribers to reflect the increased value of the current software offering.