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?

[roshaypro]

ok ,  we sell pictures in frames. 1 picture is 15$ EX...  easy 1 sale takes 1 frame from inventory,  BUT we sell 2 frames for 20$, yet how can I tell inventory that there needs to have 2 frames subracted from inventory when the item is 2 frames for 20$,  inventory will still just subtract 1 frame.

So only way is to manually go in each day and subtract additional frame?

Also continueing we sell 3 framed pictures for $30,  its a choice in the register yet I don't see how to subract 3 items from inventory,  cuz its counted as 1 item.

[AvalonLeather]

Would using one of the linked apps do this? Like Shopventory?  This is exactly my problem, too.

[Fenn1974]

 You can track modifiers now but you have to do it from a computer or a browser you are unable to do it on the square app 

[AvalonLeather]

I discovered that and it's wonderful.  I am trying to figure out if I can translate those modifiers into inventory control and I am not having any luck. I was wondering if Shopventory might be an option.

[AvalonLeather]

What I'm realizing is I need multi level organization in the SKUs. In 1 category I have 6 items with 234 variations. While that makes total since in a spreadsheet, it's completely ridiculous in the POS application. If the combined modifiers could refer to an inventory item, that would be awesome!

[Fenn1974]

I’m not really sure what shop inventory is I’ve never used it I’m still a little old fashioned and keep track of inventory on pen and paper but tracking the modifiers makes it where I can track every flavor we sale 

[Helen]

@Fenn1974 @AvalonLeather I'm glad the modifier sales report is helpful. 😀

I just checked and Shopventory -- which is a partner app you can use with Square -- and it handles modifiers as variants. It looks like you might have to reorganize your item library though. If that's a good (or bad) solution for you it would be great if you could report back to let us know?

[Fenn1974]

Shop inventory looks nice but our business is seasonal and we’re only open 6 months a year and I don’t see any sense in spending $30 a month for something I can do myself the old fashioned way even though we’re a high output Shaved Ice stand and sell tens of thousands of snow cones a year I think It would be ok if it was half the cost 

[jeanstein]

I have a similar question, but no, you aren't answering it.  I have a shirt that comes in Men's and Women's, 5 different sizes and 4 different colors.  I set up gender, size and color modifiers, but how do I set up inventory for each gender, size and color?  To suggest that I have to set up a "variation"  for each of these in order to record inventory is crazy.  That's forty variations for one item!

[EJ_]

Hi @jeanstein

Unfortunately you can only track inventory for the Item Variations. 

Modifiers were meant to apply options to a set of items (e.g. a restaurant has a Hamburger item with Cheese + Toppings as the modifiers).

Variations, while you'll need to create man y of them, allows you to track sizes, colors, or other price points. 

Modifier tracking is something that's been asked about by other sellers, so I'll try advocating to get this prioritized. Hopefully we can find a workaround for you that helps until we get a better solution rolled out.