Feature Request: Bundle items as a single item, pull from inventory individually - combo/combination

[Baconation]

The title of this post has been edited from the original: Inventory: Can you bundle items together as a single item or special?

We have multiple products for the same price.   We offer a 3 for $20 special, which is a mix & match of any three products.   How do I handle the inventory count?   Do I need to add each item with the discounted amount, so at check out I would have to select three discounted items?   Or do I add each item at the regular amount and apply an overall discount?

[#2]

Hey @FurnishbyIsa and welcome to the Community!

This isn't something we offer at this time. 

This would be a feature request we can pass up but I haven't seen any other requests for this yet. Hopefully other sellers who are looking for this can add onto the thread!

[#3]

Hi there!

Unfortunately for bundle created items that combine two separate items together will not reduce your inventory for each. 

What you can do is create a discount and apply it to the sale when both items are purchased together.

This will reduce your inventory and also reduce the price to the amount that you like. 

[#4]

Hey @Baconation, thanks for surfacing!

I can see how this would be a bit tricky for your 3-for-$20 special, especially since inventory is a high priority.

Depending on how you need to track your items, I have three suggestions:

1. Add each item individually to the sale, then apply an overall discount.
   Pro: Allows you to track the inventory for each item regardless of being part of the special.
   Con: You would have to ring up the 3-for-$20 special as a separate transaction. Otherwise, the discount will apply to the entire sale.
    
2. Add each item individually to the sale, then apply the discount to each of the three items.
   Pro: Allows you to track inventory for each item regardless of being part of the special and ring up additional items in a single transaction.
   Con: More of a manual process that may increase the length of time to complete a sale.
    
3. Create a "3-for-$20 Special" item.
   Pro: It's fast and since the price would be locked, you can add it to a sale with other items.
   Con: You wouldn't be able to track each individual item within included with the "3-for-$20 Special" item.

I understand how automating this would be super helpful for your business and I'll be sure to share your experience with our product liaison team. 

Find step-by-steps on applying discounts in our Support Center.

Hope this helps clear things up for now. Please let me know if you have any further questions!

[seattlegg]

@homeprogreen you are correct in saying that does apply to the POS system but when processing online orders you can’t automatically apply that to a customer’s order and there are no coupons that support it. Thanks for the feedback!

[Mick_Indy]

We are also looking for ways to bundle products under a single SKU and have square track inventory for each item separately. Posting here to keep track of this thread.

[WizardAndrew]

Thank you for creating this thread to track this type of request. I can tell you this: if this feature is not added soon, we will be leaving Square for Retail behind.

We need both to be able to create combos that deduct inventory from the respective items, and to be able to create related nested items (1 case = 6 displays, 1 display = 36 packs; case price = x, display price = y, pack price = z).

Sales of these types of items are a significant portion of our annual sales (presently c. $250k and growing). We pay for Square for Retail and want to see this feature set. If you can't provide it, we'll find a product or service that will.

[homeprogreen]

@WizardAndrew the shopventory addon will let you creat bundles and nested items that pull from inventory correctly. It’s available in the square App Store. The trick to using it so that it tracks inventory correctly is that you need to update inventory in shopventory then let it push the items over to Square for Retail. Then as you make sales Square pushes over the sale to shopventory so items are taken out of inventory correctly 

[mayberrysoapco]

Shopventory is $100 a month - not ideal for someone who only needs bundling.

[homeprogreen]

@mayberrysoapco he also said annual sales are 250k and growing, 100 bucks a month to get the advanced inventory features he needs isn’t going to break the bank with that cash flow 

[PriscillaFideli]

This is something we are interested in as well. We sell a kit including multiple items. It would be easiest to sell the "kit" rather than adding each item individually to these frequent orders. 

[chehaliscbd]

is there a way to put multiple item on a barcode. i want to make gift baskets with multiple items and would like to only scan one code and all inventory be taken out instead of scanning in each item seperatly

[Goldneye]

HI, the Square platform can not pull different inventory for one item as you state.  You can search the Seller Community for many discussions, dating back to 2016. 

https://www.sellercommunity.com/t5/Square-Point-of-Sale-Feature/Feature-Request-Bundle-items-as-a-si...

[gerichap54]

Please add this feature!!!  It's a basic way of doing business for almost all retailers.