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!

[Ginkhao]

Please add this. I have too many varied combinations on the register.  Additionally, I cannot separate the items to frying station and main line printers from modifiers. 

[fluffybiscotti]

Would love this feature, as I sell discounted mystery bags to customers. Currently, I made a single item for the bundle, but I have to manually calculate and separate out the individual items included in the bundle afterwards in Excel in order to allocate revenues and cost of sales within the bundle.

[CascadeGarden]

PLEASE ADD THIS FEATURE.  We need to be able to create gift baskets and sell them for one price, but pull the individual items out of inventory when sold. Honestly, I can't believe this is not already a feature.  AT LEAST give us a feature where we can remove items from inventory for a REASON different than loss, theft, damage, etc.  The reports that we love so much about Square just are not helpful when we cannot see which items have been sold in a grouping or a bundle.  

[kwestport]

Yes to the last comment!! We need more reasons to adjust inventory!

[goldburger]

All my restaurant friends have switched to Toast. I just introduced combo meals at my place and now I see a MAJOR thing missing with square and understand why people say Toast is better for restaurants.

[sodanerdy]

I'm just starting to feel like I have Square Beta and KDS figured out and working together with work arounds for combo purchases and now I find out other companies like Toast already have a solution?! Well crap...now I'm questioning whether I should try and wrap my head around Square for Restaurants. Thanks @goldburger, I think. 😉

[goldburger]

@sodanerdy while it sucks how much catch up square has to do in the restaurant segment right now with only 2 spots i am dealing because i know square is superior, at least for me. my friends with 5 locations just switched, and thats what i hear, that toast is better once you scale with many locations... so i am not switching even though there are def things that should obviously be a part of square and is inexplicably not. like.... this thread started in 2016?!

[RichGreen]

Five years later and it's still not implemented or even addressed. Wow. 

[TiffanyNR]

Looking for this feature too. We have to manually adjust inventory.

[joyofcolorjax]

Square Support:
How do we get this feature escalated to the Retail Product Team(s)?
It has been a discussion item since 2016 and it is apparent it is a huge feature for customers. We recently opened a service and grouping beauty items to apply discounts, loyalty, reporting and most importantly - adjust inventory when the bundle is purchased has tremendous value. I tired create a Discount "bundle" and the feature set is incredibly limited. When I found this thread, I was encouraged until i saw the POST dates. Not excited about having to create a whole new inventory item just to track reporting and checkout while my inventory then needs to be manually calibrated (ripe for error and inventory drift - and makes complying with FTC guidelines difficult).