Feature Request: Track inventory on modifiers

[StickbowArchery]

The title of this post has been edited from the original: Tracking Modifiers in Inventory

One of the things I sell are archery bows.  When I sell a bow, it comes with a bowstring.  I also sell individual bowstrings.  I track inventory for bows AND bowstrings.  At the end of the day, I would like to see the TOTAL number of bowstrings out of my inventory (strings that went out wilh each bow + the strings sold individually).

The only way I've seen to do this are 1) "sell" a string with each bow, reducing the price to $0.00, or 2) attach a modifier to each bow that has the proper size bowstring automatically attached.  Option 2 would work best for me because I would eliminate employees forgetting to perform the steps in option 1, however I cannot find a way to accurately track my bowstring inventory while employing option 2.

Any suggestions?

[JustinC]

Hi @JoyfulCup - Justin here 🙂

Yes, you are correct - your flavor modifiers will not be tied to inventory. In other words, Square's system won't recognize if you run out of a flavor. 

If you're looking to track each flavor, add them as variations to add stock amounts:

ex. Vanilla cocoa bomb

      Cinnamon cocoa bomb 

      etc...

[mathewpdc]

I've only recently started using Square but I'm already seeing how beneficial a feature like tracking inventory through modifiers would be for my business, especially when it comes to online orders. I own a cookie shop and sell half dozen and dozen boxes. It'd be great if the modifiers I use could automatically reduce from my inventory so I don't run the risk of selling something I'm out of in error.

[AshleyK]

@matthewpdc thanks so much for adding your feedback!!

[jeki]

Looking to build something like a "You Pick Two" or "Build a Basket" where you can multi-select a specified # of variations (I would even settle for unspecified #). I do need to track inventory, which would make tracking inventory for variations across multiple items an additional tricky part.

Alternatively multi-select is solved with modifiers, but there's no inventory mgmt option there.

Anyone have any workarounds??

[Donnie-M]

@jeki The inventory part is tricky.  If you just need to track the sales there is a modifier sales report.

I do this with a breakfast platter and have set up a pick 2 pick 3 pick 4 etc.  I then use a modifier set of all the options (I even have duplicates for those people that want extra bacon etc.).  I then restricted the number of choices by customizing the modifier from the item screen.

If you need a true inventory then it could be done using the options feature, but that will give you a lot of variations, but for online sales works quite well as each option is a drop down box.  What type of items are you bundling?

[Sharifharb]

I would also like for the customer to be able to add more than one of the same modifier. 

[jeki]

Yea it's the inventory that's the necessity. I'm a bakery and we have pastry baskets. One flat cost for a 4pk, 6pk and 12pk. So the item would be the pack size, and the selections are the variations. I've seen the modifiers, but no inventory tracker is a huge bummer. 

The workaround I've done is to create auto discounts when you select a certain quantity of items. But looking at it from a customer standpoint, the behavioral economics are not very motivating when you see $0.25 off per piece vs the concept of buying a 6pk for a known price. 

Any other options out there?

[kff]

It's 2021 and most of these replies are from 2018.... CAN WE PRETTY PLEASE GET THE MODIFIERS TO TRACK INVENTORY NOW?

My business also runs on this POS system. My business partner and I are smashing our heads into a wall trying to track inventory properly. Variations do not work for us, but instead makes our reports a gigantic hot mess and we end up spending precious time (time is money) tediously hand recounting (again), comparing reports ,etc. trying to figure out what happened from the night before. Is there anyone from the Product Team that could give us some insight to whether or not this is going to happen?

SOS PLEASE SEND HELP 😞

[rchard]

Square please make this a thing!  People have been asking for 5 years now.  This is something that will make me consider switching to a different platform.  I also would like to offer bundle options for people to pick multiple scents of my candles and get that bundle at a cheaper price.  Best way for customers to pick their options are modifiers.  I also have those same candles as individual items.  If I only have a couple left of a scent I need that inventory to pull from the individual listing as well so I don't have a customer buy that as well and then be mad when I don't have it in stock because someone bought it in the bundle right before them.  This  appears to be a crucial issue for a lot of different businesses!  With the holidays approaching (yes they are more than 6 months away but as business owners we have to be planning far ahead), I need to be able to offer gift bundles to my customers and will be looking if I need to move my website elsewhere for this to be a possibility so I don't have upset customers or lose sales over this.

[JC1776]

So I’m having some issues. I’ve been using Square for 8+ years and now wanting to I still see more of the inventory features with a barcode scanner as I’ve just purchased the square register. Here’s my issues and how I have them categorized.  I have particular questions on bottles I sell with different flavors strengths etc… one flavor in a particular brand can have 5 different strength variations. 

Category: type of products

Items: Brand name of item

Variations: different flavors in said brand

modifiers: strength of product

my problem is I’m trying utilize inventory on each item including modifiers etc. what’s a easy good way of achieving this.