Sub Categories

[Jpatla]

I know this has been mentioned in the past.  I know you can use variations and modifiers and that you can have site subcategories online.  But I am a Pizza/Deli along with a Retail store.  

I know you are looking for reasons why subcategories would be helpful so here I go.  For instance in my store I track cost in QuickBooks under major categories such as Grocery, Meat Dept, Lotto, Pizza/Deli etc. I use these as my major Roll up categories- See example of Grocery 

Grocery-

   Produce

        Weighed

            items

        Non Weighed

             items

   Candy

       Candy Bars

            items

        Novelty

            items

        Truffles

             items

   Local Items

       Maple Syrup

           items

       Private label Spices

          items

   Pet products

      Food/Treats

         items

      Toys

         items

    Dairy

      Cheese

          items

      Milk

        items

You get the idea, when I break them down into individual categories then I have to export to Excell, rearrange my rows and add roll them up manually.  

We are also Using Square for Restaurants to integrate our online Menu.  But I have to have all the menu categories in seperatly so they show on the Menu correctly and I can have correct tickets print to the kitchen but when it comes to reporting it would be nice to be able to roll up all the menu categories so I can see what the Restaurant did.  I know that is possible with Restaurants Plus but since we have both we need the retail tracking of Retail Plus.  So far I have been able to get everything to work together; with some workarounds, we have only had it a week.  But I do see reporting as an issue moving forward.  

Thanks

Jodie Patla

Joe's Jerky Pizza Deli & Corner Market

[#2]

If you have at least one other category, you can create a subcategory within your Square Online website.

Head to your Square Online overview page > Items > Site Categories > click the + button next to a category.

After saving your changes, the new category will appear nested underneath the category you just selected on the Items > Site Categories page. Learn more about categories here.

I hope this helps, @hishersbling - and welcome to the Seller Community! ✨ 

[#3]

Hi @coppermug84 👋 Thanks for reaching out! Happy to have you join us here on the Seller Community. Welcome!

We do not have any current plans to implement a sub-category system. We feel that the implementation of Variations and Modifiers offers these same features of potential sub-categories, and allow for trackable iterations of existing items.

We would love to hear more about what you would use sub-categories for! How specifically would sub-categories be beneficial to your business? - what kind of items do you sell?

I will keep an eye out for your response!

[RHatch]

Square doesn't support sub Categories.  You would have to list them as Toys-Plush, Toys-Plastic, etc.  If you want a report on toys you just select all the categories.  It's really not that big of deal you just have to think differently.

[NoJosh]

Thanks

It is a big deal.when the category is going to display and drive navigation on my website. 

It looks tacky when you have 5000 items over 20 categories this way. 

It's not squares design that will cause the pain, it's actually the GoDaddy platform. 

Thanks though. Good to bee clear on it. 

[HappyPeople]

It would also be useful in minimizing the shear number of buttons on a single screen to minimize time for searching for a particular item/ i.e. Beverages>Coffee Drinks>Latte (variant large). (Category>Subcategory>Item>Price Variant or Food>Sandwiches>Club. Etc.

[foxspringsfarm]

I'm a farmer and the same thing holds true. I have produce (versus flowers or baked goods etc) Under produce category i would like tomatoes as a sub-category. We sell 8 varieties (items). So I can get a sum of all produce, and I can get a sum of all cherry tomatoes, but can't see what percentage of produce is tomatoes or cucumbers or radishes...

[jang]

SQUARE! Please create subcategories so we can better find and track our inventory! This is a basic operation and should be built into the system!

[VanKalkerFarms]

could you provide a sample of a category and subcategory that you would use in your situation to better help the developers understand what users are looking for?  

[Adam_]

I also would like this feature.

[Helen]

Thanks @Adam_

PS I've marked RHatch's answer here as the Best Answer so that other seller can find this thread! 

[urbanhomestead]

This reply was created from merging an existing thread: Adding a subcategory to square inventory

How do you add a subcategory to square inventory? 

[Helen]

I'm moving your post to this @urbanhomestead to you can see the Best Answer to this question!