Toast Spring 2026 Release: Everything You Need to Know

Last updated: Apr 30, 2026, 3:05 PM

Drive growth, improve operations, and simplify your finances with our latest release.

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Grow Your Business and Build Lasting Guest Relationships

This release brings together powerful innovations across every part of your business—from driving growth and improving operations to simplifying finances and expanding what’s possible. Built on a unified platform, these innovations help you move faster, operate smarter, and deliver exceptional guest experiences at scale. 

 

The full details for Spring Release 2026 can be viewed here.

 

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Toast IQ Grow

Toast IQ Grow is a growth and lifecycle engine that unifies AI powered by Toast IQ with expert Marketing Success Manager support to help drive traffic, increase retention, and maximize first-party revenue.

 

By integrating advertising, digital storefront, and retention tools, it provides the complete foundation for merchants to launch their brand, own their guest relationships, and clearly see the sales value of every marketing effort.

 

 

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Marketing Success Manager

Your Marketing Success Manager is a real expert working for your brand. They help shape your strategy, identify opportunities, and keep campaigns moving.

 

  • This service is available to customers with Toast IQ Grow. To purchase Toast IQ Grow, visit Toast Shop.
  • To learn more about this update, visit the Toast Support Center.

 

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Marketing Agent

The Toast IQ marketing partner helps drive your growth. Marketing Agent uses your POS data to build plans, design campaigns, and recommend strategies—available 24/7 to bring guests through your doors.

 

  • This update is available to customers with Toast IQ Grow. To purchase Toast IQ Grow, visit Toast Shop.
  • To learn more about this update, visit the Toast Support Center.

 

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Toast Local Features

  • Waitlist & Reservations
    • Toast Local provides a booking experience that allows guests to secure a table or join a waitlist directly from the discovery map or search, including Toast Tables inventory alongside the expanded partner network with Resy.
    • Customers with Toast Tables or Resy are listed in the Toast Local app. To purchase Toast Tables, visit Toast Shop.
    • To learn more about this update, visit the Toast Support Center.
  • Experiences
    • Allow guests to discover and prepay for unique events such as tasting menus or holiday specials. Guests can browse and book curated experiences powered by Toast Tables directly through Toast Local.
    • Customers with Toast Tables are listed in the Toast Local app. To purchase Toast Tables, visit Toast Shop.
    • Toast Tables customers can create Experiences here.
    • To learn more about this update, visit the Toast Support Center.
  • Online Ordering
    • Toast Local enables a frictionless online ordering flow, allowing diners to browse menus and place pickup or delivery orders within the interface.
    • Customers with Toast Digital Storefront Suite are listed in the Toast Local app. To purchase, visit Toast Shop.
    • To learn more about Online Ordering, visit the Toast Support Center.
    • Digital Storefront customers can update the settings here.
  • Offers
    • Attract new diners and reward regulars by surfacing exclusive, time-sensitive deals. With offers, restaurants can showcase active promotions like Happy Hour Specials or First-Order Discounts to guests actively exploring Toast Local.
    • This update is available to all Toast POS users.
    • To learn more about this update, visit the Toast Support Center.
    • To create an offer, navigate to the Offers page.
  • Loyalty
    • Turn one-time visitors into lifelong guests by integrating your rewards program into the booking journey. Loyalty on Toast Local allows guests to view their points balance, find new ways to earn, and redeem rewards effortlessly as they dine.
    • This update is available to customers with Toast Marketing Essentials. To purchase, visit Toast Shop.
    • To learn more about this update, visit the Toast Support Center.
    • Toast Marketing Essentials customers can update loyalty program settings here.

 

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Do More With Smarter AI-Powered Operations

Toast IQ Multi-Location Analysis

Get powerful insights across all your locations with multi-unit lookup capabilities in our Toast IQ AI Assistant. Easily explore how item sales perform across stores, uncover key labor cost trends, monitor performance metrics, and identify patterns—all from a single chat interface. Toast IQ AI Assistant now enables you to access and analyze data across every Toast location you manage, making it easier than ever to run your business on Toast.

 

  • This update is available to customers with multiple locations on Toast.
  • To learn more about this update, ask Toast IQ AI Assistant.
  • Try it on Toast IQ here.

 

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Toast IQ for Retail

Toast IQ AI Assistant is Toast’s operational advantage for retail—turning everyday data into instant answers, supporting confident decisions and direct action. Built into the platform operators already use, Toast IQ AI Assistant reduces the busywork of running a retail business so owners can stay focused on their customers, their margins, and their growth.

 

This update is available to customers with Toast Retail. To purchase, visit Toast Shop.

 

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Toast IQ Translation

Toast IQ AI Assistant adjusts to your preferred language. Whether you’re asking questions in Spanish, Chinese, Korean, or another language, Toast IQ AI Assistant will reply back to you in that language for clear, confident answers. It also offers follow-up questions in your language as it learns your preferences, helping you uncover deeper insights and take action.

 

  • This update is available to all Toast POS users.
  • To learn more about this update, visit the Toast Support Center.

 

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Menu Upsells

Toast IQ AI Assistant analyzes your unique sales data alongside general knowledge to recommend upsells. Now, those recommendations can be activated in just a few clicks across Toast Go® handhelds, POS terminals, kiosks, and guest-facing displays. Instead of relying on manual setup or inconsistent execution, you can put curated upsells in front of guests at the right moment. 

 

  • This update is available to all Toast POS users.
  • To learn more about this update, visit the Toast Support Center.
  • Try it on Toast IQ here.

 

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Run Your Business With Confidence

Toast Finance

Toast Finance gives you the tools to understand your cash flow, plan for what’s coming, and access the funding you need – built for the way restaurants and retail actually run

 

To learn more, visit the Finance page.

 

Toast Finance is the integrated suite of financial products and services offered by Toast or its affiliates that you can use to manage your business's finances. Some products are offered in partnership with third-party financial institutions. Terms, conditions, and fees may apply based on the underlying product or service.

Toast Capital Loans are issued by WebBank. Loans are subject to credit approval and may not be available to borrowers in certain jurisdictions. WebBank reserves the right to change or discontinue this program without notice.

 

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Toast Checking

Business checking is built for better cash flow. Put your budgeting on autopilot with built-in Jars— automatically set aside money for taxes, payroll, and expenses so you know exactly what’s safe to spend.

 

  • Interested in opening a Toast Checking account? Visit here to get started.
  • To learn more about this update, visit the Toast Support Center.

 

Toast Checking Accounts are provided by Thread Bank, Member FDIC. Toast is not an FDIC-insured bank. FDIC deposit insurance covers the failure of an insured bank. Certain conditions must be satisfied for pass-through deposit insurance coverage to apply. Toast Checking Account offers limited checking services. You may issue checks from your Account but not deposit checks into your Account.

 

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Payroll Success Partners

A dedicated team who you’ll know by name and stay with you post onboarding, helping you run payroll with confidence.

 

This update is available to select new Toast Payroll customers. Existing customers can join the waitlist via Test Kitchen. This update is available to select new/eligible Toast Payroll customers in the US only.

 

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Auto Payroll

Auto payroll runs each cycle after you review hours, tips, and payroll costs, flagging issues like auto clock-outs so payroll gets done—even on your busiest days.

 

  • This update is available to eligible Toast Payroll customers. To learn more, visit the Toast Support Center. This update is available to select new/eligible Toast Payroll customers in the US only.
  • Toast Tips Manager users are now eligible for auto payroll.

 

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Toast Retail Features

  • AI Invoice Scanning
    • AI Invoice Scanning turns one of retail’s most tedious back-office tasks into a near-instant process—so retailers can receive products accurately, catch cost changes before they eat into margins, and get back to running their store.
    • This update is available to customers with Toast Retail. To purchase, visit Toast Shop.
    • To learn more about this update, visit the Toast Support Center.
    • To see this update in your account, visit here.
  • Inventory Management in Toast Now
    • Toast Now with Toast Retail inventory management capabilities puts the full power of inventory management in your pocket—so operators can count stock and edit their catalog from anywhere in the store, at any time of day. This is inventory management that works the way retail actually works.
    • This update is available to customers with Toast Retail. To purchase, visit Toast Shop.
    • Customers with Toast Retail will see Inventory in the bottom menu of the Toast Now app.

 

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Stretch What Is Possible

Toast Drive-Thru

Toast Drive-Thru is an integrated solution designed to power complex drive-thru operations, combining software, AI voice ordering integration, purpose-built hardware, and services to help operators manage fast and efficient drive-thru experiences across locations.

 

  • This update will be available on a rolling basis, beginning with brands with 15 or more locations in the coming months.
  • To learn more about Toast Drive-Thru, visit here.

 

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Toast IQ Catering

Take control of your catering setup with real-time configuration insights. Toast IQ AI Assistant connects directly to your Catering Online Ordering settings, giving you visibility into how your site is configured—so you can confirm availability, review menus, troubleshoot issues, and confidently manage your catering operation.

 

  • This update is available to customers with Catering & Events. To purchase, visit Toast Shop.
  • To learn more about this update, ask Toast IQ.
  • Try it on Toast IQ here.

 

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Toast Go® 3 [International]

Toast Go® 3 brings Toast’s most advanced handheld POS to global markets, combining durability, intelligent workflows, and resilient connectivity in a lightweight design built for fast-paced hospitality environments. With real-time insights and seamless Wi-Fi and mobile switching, it empowers teams to deliver consistent, high-quality service anywhere they operate.

 

 

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