Why no abililty to enter future purchase orders for new vendors and items not in current stock?

[Mannequinatsd]

Why do we not have the ability to enter future purchae orders for New vendors and itmes not in our current stock?  It would be great to be able to enter what we have on order and when it arrives be able to quickly transfer to inventory and print labels.  As it currently stands, the purchase order field is only for ordering additional items in stock or running short.  It would be nice to have both options.  

Thanks!

[keicollective]

We just started using purchase orders with our vendors in Square for Retail and have run into a headache. 

We do a monthly PO with each vendor to bring their stock of each item up to a certain quantity based on the item type. So if we need to bring them up to a total of 10, I need to know how many we have currently in inventory in order to know how many to order. If we have 4 we'll order 6, but if we're down to 1 we'll order 9. 

When creating a new PO, it doesn't pull up the items (and quantities) that have been associated to that vendor (pull from the Item Library associated to the Vendor). It would be better if this page auto populated with the items associated to the vendor and allowed us to remove or add new at the bottom of the list. It should show current quantities with a box to fill in requested quantities next to that. Our vendors frequently ask how many items we still have in stock, so the current quantities are really needed for us to keep using Square for Retail. 

And when looking at the Item Library page under the vendor it doesn't show current stock levels. It would be ideal to be able to send each vendor a list of their current stock levels at anytime with us. 

[isabelle]

Hey @keicollective! Thanks for posting in the Seller Community and sharing this insight ✨

I would suggest giving our Square for Retail team a call. They have really great workarounds and suggestions to make things work a bit better for you and your business. While it sounds like some of what you're asking for is a feature request, it may still be helpful to give them a call. 

[cornerstore]

I'd love to have the same feature.

Or even add a column to enter desired inventory count, so I will know exactly how many I should order.

And also, when creating a PO, if I select a vendor, I wish there is a way to see all the items for that vendor, instead of me having to type in the item name.  So that I don't don't miss any items that needed to be ordered. 

The beta stock forecast seems to be very promising with some refining.  Things like if I get to set the forecast length and minimum stock quantity. (instead of forecasting when it will be all sold out to zero, because some items we don't want to let it be completely out)

I don't know if all this made sense, but basically I just want to be able to see all the item for the vendor I'm creating PO for and only that vendor.  Thanks.

Best for me would be, if I select the vendor, list of items only from that vendor will pop up, that look like spread sheet with desired inventory count, current inventory, order quantity. 

When I set the low stock alert and go to report, it shows items below my set low stock alert count, but doesn't show by how many items I'm below the low stock that I have set it at.

And when I type in the item name, it brings up list from all vendors, not just the items for the vendor that I want to order from.  so very confusing when the similar items exist from different vendors.

I really want to just be able to go shop for the inventory we need by looking at dashboard, without having to walk around the store and make shopping list by hand.