set start of work week

donutsue · ‎10-05-2025

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!

TheRealChipA · ‎10-05-2025

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.

Chip A.
Square Expert & Innovator and member of the Square Champions group. (But NOT a Square employee, just a seller like you)

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TheRealChipA · ‎10-05-2025

@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.

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AlexNewStreet · ‎01-28-2026

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!)

filletandbone · ‎02-09-2026

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

TheRealChipA · ‎02-09-2026

@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.

Chip A.
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filletandbone · ‎02-09-2026

Thanks @TheRealChipA , understood.

MEQAntics · ‎02-16-2026

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.

EmBo · ‎02-28-2026

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.

AliceGoodCoffee

Hello all! This is something that I was also looking for, and in my dashboard I found a way to set it for the sales summary report, at least. Here is a screenshot of what is available to me, where if you toggle the "Custom workweek" at the bottom you can select "Monday" and have a Monday to Sunday setup. From what I can tell, this applies to the dashboard app for IOS and to this report in the web-based dashboard, but not to other web reports.