How to add inventory of components of an item

[hannahmlinder]

Hello! We just switched from Lightspeed to Square for our church's café. It is a fully functioning café (minus food besides pastries). In Lightspeed we could track inventory on cups, lids, sleeves, etc by attaching them to items. I am trying to figure out how to do this in Square so that my team that handles inventory can track cup count easier. (I know there will always be a little discrepancy with mess ups, etc). 

I would like to also figure out how to update the stock count of cups, lids and sleeves when we get more in, but currently can't do that without creating an item for those things. Help?

[Candlestore]

@hannahmlinder ;

Square Recently came out with Bundling items.  

Here is a link to more information on that.  Link : https://www.sellercommunity.com/t5/Product-Updates/New-Create-and-Sell-Bundles-for-Retail 

Now I believe you would need to be a Subscriber of Square for Retail for this feature.  The description and instructions more go for items you sell together, and not for the Cups, Sleeves, Lids etc.  But during testing people were doing just that.  So they would put all the sleeves, cups, lids in Square as an Item with costs from suppliers and just not list them for sale anywhere.  Then in the Bundle say Coffee Regular as a Bundle it would list the Coffee, Lid, Sleeve, and Cup with a Single price of whatever you were charging for the Cup of Coffee.  The Benefits of this is that in the Bundle when you set it up it will show you the Total Cost price of everything in the Bundle, so you do not make a Bundle cheaper than what all the items in the Bundle cost you.   The other thing it does is it will subtract 1 cup, 1 Sleeve, and 1 lid from inventory.