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Notification Centre

We’ve built a new Notification Centre that centralises all your notifications across the Square Point Of Sale app, Square Appointments POS app, and Square Retail POS app. You can receive and read account alerts, new feature announcements, and Square news – all from one easy-to-access place.

Account notifications

Account notifications like order alerts, disputes, and sales trends are indicated by a blue numbered badge overlaying the Notifications icon on the navigation bar at the bottom of your screen.

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What’s new notifications

What’s new notifications such as insights on how to improve your POS and new product features are indicated by a blue badge overlaying the Notifications icon on the navigation bar at the bottom of your screen.

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Urgent notifications

Urgent notifications such as a frozen account are indicated by a red warning badge overlaying the Notifications icon on the navigation bar at the bottom of your screen. An urgent notification will appear larger in size under account notifications.

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View notifications

Square Point of Sale

  1. Open the Square Point Of Sale app.
  2. Tap Notifications at the bottom of the menu.
  3. Choose to view notifications for:
    • Account – notifications relating to your Square account.
    • What’s new – notifications about Square Point of Sale updates, products and services.
  4. Tap on any notification to review and resolve it.

Square Appointments POS

  1. Open the Square Appointments POS app on iOS devices only.
  2. Tap ≡ More > Notifications at the bottom of the menu.
  3. Choose to view notifications for:
    • Account – notifications relating to your Square account.
    • What’s new – notifications about Square Point of Sale updates, products and services.
  4. Tap on any notification to review and resolve it.

Square Retail POS

  1. Open the Square Retail POS app.
  2. Tap Notifications at the bottom of the menu.
  3. Choose to view notifications for:
    • Account – notifications relating to your Square account.
    • What’s new – notifications about Square Point of Sale updates, products and services.
  4. Tap on any notification to review and resolve it.

Note: To remove notification badges, you must view all notifications in Notification Centre.

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