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?

[Tom]

Hi @MobileIceStand, thanks for reaching out and taking the time to share!

You can use modifiers and price points to customize items in your library, but only price points are tracked with inventory management. I noticed that Fenn1974 offered a workaround in this thread: Tracking Modifiers in Inventory.

Does that help get you where you need to be for now? If not, please let me know and I'll be happy to take a deeper dive.

[MobileIceStand]

Thank You Fenn1974!  

Do you sell a similar product? If so, do you have any other recomendations for how you use the square system to keep track of your product/business/inventory? 

Kristen 

[MobileIceStand]

I think that will do it for now! 

I do have a few other questions, but not directly related to "modifiers" 🙂

Thank You Tom

[Tom]

Awesome.🙌 Thanks for circling back and for your patience! We're always working to improve our products based on seller feedback — please keep in touch for updates!

In the meantime, if any other questions come up — let us know. 🙂

[rgvvapes]

I own a vape shop and need something like this. I cary several brands of liquid with multiple flavors that differ from brand to brand and coils with different resistance at any given time. Each flavor comes in multiple sizes and multiple nicotine levels. Am I able to track how many bottles of a specific flavor sold in a specific size and specific nicotine level? Same thing with the coils. With my current pos, I can create a product matrix. I start with the brand, then i set the flavors, the sizes, and the nicotine levels and put them in whatever I want. It will then generate each combination possible as an item in the order specified and via the pos interface, all my employees have to do is pick the brand, the flavor, the size and then the nic level, or whatever order I put them in. This allows forecast what sizes, flavors and nic levels i need to order. This would be a great feature to add.

[puka]

Hey @rgvvapes!

Were you able to see if @Fenn1974's response worked out for you? If not, please let us know and we'll see if we can get you in the right direction.

[Fenn1974]

I'm not sure we sell Shaved Ice at a high output stand square helps a lot there is a lot more on the dashboard you just have to explore it if you have a question about something specific I will try to help

[rgvvapes]

It seems like it would partially work. The way I set it up is to have the E-juice brand as the main item, then add the size as a variant since that is the only thing that would cause the price to change, then have the flavors and nicotine levels as modifiers. I get that I can track the sales afterward. However, the problem I am faced with is that I cant add/check inventory for the modifiers. I don't care that I have six 30ml bottles of Brand A. I need to know I have six 30ml bottles of Brand A in Blueberry of which 3 are 0mg of nicotine and 3 are 3mg of nicotine, and so on and so forth. If this worked the way I needed, I would be able to get alerted when inventory is low for each combination of flavor, nicotine, and size. I hope that makes sense. Let me add a screenshot of an example of one of the POS system's I'm considering that does what I need.

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[Chad]

@rgvvapes, I've got an understanding of what you're looking for, but I don't think our inventory tracking is going to be the best fit to be honest. Mainly, because we don't have tracking for modifiers and variations. I'd hate to see you waste time trying to set this up with a huge item library. 

I will make sure to pass this feature request along to our product team. I would love to see our Inventory tracking expanded to fit your needs, but I don't have a timeline for when this might be avalible. 

If you have any questions please let me know! 

[rgvvapes]

That sucks! I was really looking forward to using Square as my point of sale. Thanks for the honesty @Chad. I'd love to be notified if and when that capability is implemented. Love everything else Square has to offer!