Add advanced capabilities
About advanced capabilities
Advanced capabilities are optional feature bundles that allow you to customize Square for your unique business needs.
Inventory: inventory and catalog management and inventory history
Bookings: appointment scheduling, online booking calendar, no-show protection
Restaurants: menu management, 3rd party order integrations, advanced reporting and live sales
Based on your business type, you might have advanced capabilities activated after you create your Square account. You can activate additional advanced capabilities to gain access to the specific features of each in your Square Dashboard.
For example, if you’re a food & beverage business, but also use inventory features (vendor and purchase order management), you may need to activate the Inventory capabilities. This activation makes the Inventory management page visible on your Square Dashboard. As a food & beverage business, the Restaurants capabilities should already be activated.
Before you begin
Advanced capabilities features are not visible in your Square Dashboard until activated. Once activated, you and your team members can access the advanced capabilities through new pages and tabs in Square Dashboard.
Adding advanced capabilities is exclusive to the new Square Free, Square Plus, and Square Premium plans.
Some features within advanced capabilities require a subscription to Square Plus or Square Premium.
Learn how to switch to the new Square subscription plans.
If you are subscribed to Square for Retail, Square for Restaurants, or Square Appointments plans, advanced capabilities are already active. Your business-specific features will be available in your Square Dashboard based on your current plan, with no further activation required.
You have two options for activating advanced capabilities:
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Create a new mode in the Square Point of Sale app. Learn how to create and assign modes.
Creating new modes will only activate some of the advanced capabilities.
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Add advanced capabilities from your Square Dashboard.
If creating a mode didn't activate the advanced capabilities you need, you can add them from Square Dashboard.
Add advanced capabilities
Sign in to Square Dashboard and go to Add more.
Select the set of advanced capabilities you want to activate ― Inventory, Bookings, or Restaurants.
Click Add.
If applicable, click Start setup to add tasks to your setup guide.
You’ll see Added next to the advanced capabilities that have already been added when you created your account or if you created a related mode in your Square POS app.
