[New] Committed Inventory for Invoices

[Arie]

Hello Square Sellers!

We’re excited to announce that you can now commit inventory to buyers when creating an invoice. With this update, stock held in an open invoice is marked as committed and removed from the available to sell count to help reduce the risk of accidental overselling. 

This will help you in situations where you may need to invoice a buyer for particular items and want to make sure that inventory isn’t sold to anyone else before the buyer pays. For example, an invoiced item will no longer be available on your square online store since it has been committed to another buyer already. Nonetheless, you will still be able to add overcommitted stock to an invoice if you wish to do so. 

What do I need to do to use this feature?

• Make sure that you are tracking stock on any of the items that you want to use this feature. 
• Verify that the adjust inventory levels through invoices setting is turned on (this is normally turned on by default). 

That’s it! Any items added to an open invoice will now be marked as committed.

This update is available to all sellers who use Invoices and are currently tracking stock of their items. Learn more about these updates and how to manage inventory in our Support Center. 

We would like to take this opportunity to thank the following sellers for their help in beta testing this feature:

@JTPets
@quikone
@arboristsupply
@Volpi
@jewelcam
@thegrapevine

[Fruitsofstrathm]

Can you or someone verify this actually works in committing stock BEFORE payment -  as it is now 2024 and this is what the setting button says for this “new feature” from 2022... 

Many thanks!