Product Updates: Gift Cards, Delivery, and Menu Updates

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This release focuses on how customers browse menus, place orders, and interact with rewards. It also expands what you can do with gift cards and delivery while tightening up checkout and account flows.

Combo items now work in the app

Combo items from Square now show and work properly in the mobile app.

The app now supports structured combo configurations through the latest sync, so bundled items like meals or sets display and behave correctly during ordering.

More control over gift cards

You can now run discounted gift card offers like “$100 for $80”.

The sending flow has been updated with better image selection and more predictable validation. You can also disable custom gift card amounts if you want to keep pricing fixed.

Delivery and catering updates

Delivery now supports smaller orders with the minimum lowered to $10.

This release also adds more flexibility for how delivery works across locations, including custom setups for franchises. Address selection in checkout is more reliable, and delivery timing now accounts for buffer windows aligned with store hours.

Menu navigation feels faster

Menus are easier to browse, especially for larger catalogs.

Category navigation now aligns more closely with how menus are structured in Square, including improved scrolling and cleaner category selection. The “All” tab has been removed to keep navigation focused.

Rewards and birthday offers

Rewards now support more flexible use cases.

Birthday offers can be redeemed within a defined number of days, and rewards can apply across multiple categories. Loyalty points are also displayed more clearly for customers.

Checkout and order flow

Checkout has been tightened from cart to confirmation.

Order notes behave more consistently, order status includes clearer timing, and the post checkout flow returns users to the home screen more cleanly.

Login and account updates

Logging in is quicker with automatic OTP verification for email.

Phone validation has been improved, and the delete account flow has been reorganized to make it easier to follow.

Russian language support

The app now supports Russian across the full experience, including translations and date formatting.

Scheduling and time handling

Ordering times now behave more consistently across the app.

Delivery buffers align with store hours, future ordering is available up to 60 days, and timezone handling has been standardized.

Cart tracking

The app now tracks when customers open their cart.

This gives better visibility into how customers move through the ordering flow.

App experience updates

Several updates improve overall usability.

Menus handle edge cases more reliably, modifier selection works more consistently, and layouts across key screens have been cleaned up.

In app updates

Customers now see a prompt to update the app when a new version is available.

This helps keep users on the latest version without relying on manual updates.

Release scope

This update is part of mobile release v7.9.0, which includes 52 pull requests along with supporting backend updates across API and related services.