Automatic Reimporting

For a seamless menu integration with Square, KioskBuddy can automatically sync with your Square Item Library. When the automatic reimporting feature is turned on from KioskBuddy, any changes that you make to your Square Item Library will be automatically reimported to your KioskBuddy menu with no action needed from you!

This is an early access feature. You need to manually enable automatic reimporting for each menu. In the future, automatic reimporting will be enabled by default.

How to turn on automatic reimporting

  1. Navigate to the Catalog page.

  2. Select your menu.

  3. Click the More button to open Menu Tools.

  4. Turn on the Automatic reimporting toggle.

Once this toggle is enabled, KioskBuddy will automatically detect any changes made from your Square Item Library.

In general, updates should happen pretty quickly, but it can take up to a few minutes for Square servers to notify KioskBuddy about changes.

When a change is detected, a temporary warning will pop up while the changes are being applied. The warning will disappear once automatic reimporting is finished.

How to keep KioskBuddy menu changes

Sometimes you might want to make changes in KioskBuddy and have those changes stick around when reimporting happens. For example, maybe the name of an item should show up differently on your kiosk.

KioskBuddy will always save any menu changes that are made directly in the KioskBuddy Menu Editor. These will show up in the menu as "overridden". In this case, if you have automatic reimporting turned on and you have made a menu change, KioskBuddy will not automatically reimport that change.

To get these overridden properties syncable again, you can push the Reset button next to the property to "reset" it. This "unlocks" the property and means that any changes made to it from your Square Item Library will get automatically applied to your KioskBuddy menu.

Automatic menu backups

In the event that there are undesired changes automatically reimported to your KioskBuddy, you can easily revert back to a previous backup of your menu. Each time KioskBuddy syncs with your Square Item Library, a menu backup will be automatically created for you. To learn more about menu backups, you can refer to the article here.