[New] Archive Items on Square for Retail

[tonysq]

Hi Sellers! 👋

Archive items from your Square Dashboard to make managing your item catalog and inventory reports easier than ever. 

You and your staff can now designate items to ‘Archive’ status to keep your item history, and view your catalog and inventory reports with simplicity. 

• Never worry about deleting items again — quickly change multiple items’ status to Archive one-at-a-time or in bulk 

• Easily filter your catalog and reports to remove archived items from view

• After archiving unneeded items, get relevant and actionable Low Stock Alerts and Auto PO recommendations

And if you ever need to bring an item back, simply unarchive it. To begin, visit Items and navigate to your Item Library. Follow step-by-step instructions here. 

💡 Note: You can manage archived items from Square POS, Square Appointments Point of Sale, and Square Retail POS. Archived items are not available on Square Restaurants POS app. 

To try out Square for Retail features for free, get started here.

[fishboyemile]

I'm not seeing this feature available in my dashboard. Had given it the week to se if it would populate but still nothing?

[DeanInLondon]

I still don't have access to that feature through the catalog import/export Excel feature. When will it arrive?

[MayaP]

Hey @DeanInLondon Have you tried the following steps below? 

To archive multiple items with the item import tool:

1. Log in to your Square Dashboard and click Items > Item Library.
2. Click Actions > Export Library.
3. In the exported file, go to the item_status column.
4. Change the cell from Active to Archived.
5. Import your file by going back to your Item Library and selecting Actions > Import Library.

[DeanInLondon]

Thanks for your help, but:

1. The exported spreadsheet does not contain the "item_status" column
2. The Import Library tool doesn't have the "item_status" column either.

[MayaP]

Can you try again, is this still not there? @DeanInLondon 

[DeanInLondon]

It works now! Thank you 🙂

[MayaP]

Great, so happy to hear that @DeanInLondon! If you need anything else feel free to reach back out.