How to setup a price per pound in prepackaged items

crookedspindle — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 09:34:53 GMT

I'm purchasing prepackaged chocolate items from a local candy company at a 20% reduced cost over retail. They sell the items to us at retail and then take 20% off. All items are sold by weight, so instead of having a fixed price per item, the price varies based on the weight. I can figure out my wholesale price/pound based on the 20% discount, and I can figure out what I'd like to charge my customers, but I cannot seem to figure out how to put the items into my inventory. Since all of the items are prepackaged, some guidance would be useful.

TIA

Re: How to setup a price per pound in prepackaged items

Sammie_C — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:52:20 GMT

Thank you for your post, @crookedspindle. I see you are new to the Square Community, welcome!

You are able to create items with weight-based units and generate prices by weight in the Square Point of Sale app.

Here are a few ways to sell items when selling by weight:

Set up items priced by weight, and manually input a weight to a sale to generate a price. Learn how to create and edit items.
Connect a compatible scale to Square Point of Sale, and automatically generate a price for a sale when an item is weighed. Learn more about how to Connect a scale to your point of sale.
Use a scale with a barcode label printer that can print price-embedded barcodes, which you can scan to add to a sale. First, learn how to Set up your barcode label printing scale, and how to connect a barcode scanner to your point of sale.

I hope this helps a bit! If not, please let me know and I can take another look for you.

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How to setup a price per pound in prepackaged items

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