Mark an Item as Sold Out with Square, and 86 Items with Square for Restaurants

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We’re excited to announce not one but two important inventory updates today:

• You can now mark an item as sold out to prevent it from being sold via your Square Online website. You can set items as sold out from the Square Dashboard, Square Online, Square Point of Sale, or Square for Restaurants apps. In addition to preventing these items being sold on your Square Online website, this feature will also either grey out or mark the item with red "sold out" text in your point of sale apps to help prevent overselling. Not that sellers won't be restricted from selling sold out items on our POS apps.

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• You can now 86 an item with Square for Restaurants free so that food or drink items that are unavailable cannot be ordered online and there is a warning prior to adding to tickets in-house.

These features will help you to manage your inventory efficiently everywhere you sell with Square, and never disappoint a customer.

Mark an Item as Sold out with Square Point of Sale 

Manually set item variations to manage your inventory and track when an item is sold out in Square Point of Sale, Square for Restaurants, and Square Online.

If you already track stock with Square, you don’t need to take any action - reaching a stock count of 0 will activate the sold out setting. You can also mark an item as sold out from your online Square Dashboard.

Learn how to mark an item as sold out in this Square Support Centre article: Basic Inventory Management.

86 Items with Square for Restaurants 

If you subscribe to Square for Restaurants you will see this setting automatically. Learn how to manage items with Square for Restaurants. You can also 86 an item with Square KDS.

In the Square for Restaurants app, long press a menu item to update availability.

 When 86ing an item (marking as unavailable for sale) from the Square for Restaurants app, the changes will automatically sync with your Square Online store.

Note: Items that have inventory tracking enabled on the online Square Dashboard cannot be marked as available or unavailable with the 86ing feature. An item’s availability will be determined by the stock count set in the Square Dashboard.

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Thank you to everyone who participated in a Beta Programme to help test and develop these new features! If you have any questions please sign in to let us know in the comments below.

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