What is the best way to manage multiple sellers in a transaction?

[RealRetro]

My business has dozens of sellers with 100s of items each.  When a customer buys items in our store we need to assign a value

Ex: Seller #4 has an item with a cost of $5, Seller #22 has an item with a cost of $12, Seller #30 has an item with a cost of $20.

I need to ensure at the end of the day, each seller gets their share from the sale.  How do I set up the Square to report these?  I can recieve all of those payments but I have to account for what is sold.  At the end of the month, we add up all the sales and send payment to the seller.

Any ideas how to make this easiest?  Our price tags simply have the Sellers number and the price.

Thanks in advance for your help!!

[kellyj]

@RealRetro

We've seen business/boutiques have a lot of success using Categories for these kinds of things.

In the case like you've mentioned here your Item Library would be set up for a specific Category for each Seller. Then if the items are specific to those sellers, you can import their item lists, or you can simply set variably priced item under this category.

At checkout, you'd select the category, the variably priced item, and add that to the sale. 

This would allow you to be able to look at your reports by Category Sales and see the total for those dates.

In my opinion this would be the best way to set it up. If your Sellers ever want to have more in depth reporting over what they are selling, this will give you the ability to have multiple items under each category profile.