thread Tracking inventory to variations in Orders, Menu Items, Catalog & Fulfilment

Tracking inventory to variations

ggilmore — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 11:03:48 GMT

We sell beer in cans. You can buy them by the 4pack, single can or case. All of these are variations with different prices and should track to a single inventory of product, i.e. there are 96 single cans, which could be sold as 96 singles or 24 4-packs or 4 cases of 24.

Can Square Retail Plus do this? I can't figure it out?

Re: Tracking inventory to variations

MayaP — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:05:15 GMT

Hello @ggilmore,

Great question! Right now Square for Retail does not support this but it is something our team is working to implement. You will need to use Shopventory for now if you would like your inventory set up this way. I did provide some more insight into a similar question on this thread. If you do have any other questions let me know!

Re: Tracking inventory to variations

ggilmore — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 18:05:13 GMT

Um, I asked a similar question and got a 180º different answer from someone else at square: https://www.sellercommunity.com/t5/Square-for-Retail-Discussion/Can-I-use-Square-for-Retail-Inventory-Plus-features-but-still/m-p/623497#M21723

They linked to this article which seems to suggest it is possible but I'm going to try it out to be sure.

https://www.sellercommunity.com/t5/Product-Updates/New-Retail-Feature-Sell-by-Units-and-Stock-Conversion/td-p/350755

Re: Tracking inventory to variations

Candlestore — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 03:20:04 GMT

@ggilmore ;

Here is another article for setting this up. 7237-stock-conversion-sell-by

I actually have this setup for candles I sell.

From your Square Dashboard go to Items.... Scroll down to Units then Select the Add Units....like 4 pack =4 cans ...

I always have to go back and look up how to set this up when I set it up for new items that I can sell individually or in packs or cases.