First off Welcome!
We're so excited to have you here in our first Global Community.
Our Beta Community is our first Community where we can all discuss products, features, and businesses across all locales.
A few notes to our International testers: The Beta Community started as a Group in the US Seller Community. You will see the US flag at the bottom of your footer window for now. We're updating this to show what country you are posting from - but right now, while we're building this, it will just prompt to the US footer.
Additionally, We have built seller communities in Australia, Canada, and Japan that are active. The purpose being to connect businesses to other businesses.
United Kingdom has a dedicated community coming soon. This will mean a few nuisances until launch in the UK.
**UK SELLERS - the forum titled Global Community is your home right now, but you should see an update to this in the next few weeks.
So lets get to the fun stuff!
What is a Beta?
Beta refers to the phase in development between the alpha phase and the release phase. Beta software is usually considered "complete" by the developer but still not ready for general use due to a lack of testing "in the wild." Okay, but what does that mean - It means that although you are testing a product before release, it's gone through rigorous QA testing and it's ALMOST ready for everyone.
Why?
Beta serves many purposes for us: to test performance, validate our customer experience, and identify any issues we haven't caught (bugs). Your feedback and experiences are then relayed to our Product Teams so we can convey real-world experience and identify how it will work for you when it's out of beta.
The Important Stuff:
- Our Community is a subset of Square's Seller Community, and as such Community Etiquette and Guidelines will apply.
- You can always navigate back to your home country by clicking on HOME from the menu at the top of the screen, and you can find the Beta Community by booking marking sellercommunity.com/beta or by click Beta Dashboard in the Top Menu under Home. (UK will see Global)
- Your Beta Dashboard will show you all the good things you need to know about where you've engaged - BUT you'll also want to take a look at our Product Forums to see about new opportunities in Beta, how other businesses are using and to discuss pretty much whatever is on your mind.
That's it to start! Happy to have you here, leave a comment and say hello! 😃