thread Re: Inventory Counts Via Scanning Barcodes in Payments Troubleshooting

Inventory Counts Via Scanning Barcodes

Riki — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:56:06 GMT

We recently transitioned from Lightspeed to square in an attempt to integrate our physical store with our online one more adequately. I am not seeing a feature however, to allow us to preform inventory counts via Square. As in using a bar code scanner to scan in our inventory and reconcile the actual inventory with what should be there. Surely I am not the only retail store that regularly preforms counts to confirm numbers are still what they should be.

Re: Inventory Counts Via Scanning Barcodes

JustinC — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 19:02:03 GMT

Hey @Riki -

Scanning inventory to reconcile your stock levels is exclusive to Square for Retail which is a paid feature. While you aren't able to do this with the Standard Point of Sale app, you are still able to adjust stock levels within the Dashboard by selecting the item from your library and hitting Edit Per Location > Manage Stock. From there, select a stock adjustments reason (stock received, damaged, theft) from the drop down menu so that the actions you made are reflected in your Inventory History.

Keep in mind, you'll need to enable inventory tracking for each item to do this. I hope this helps!

Re: Inventory Counts Via Scanning Barcodes

Riki — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 22:33:12 GMT

Hey There @JustinC , I do indeed have Square retail, but preforming a stock take/inventory scan does not appear to be an option?

Re: Inventory Counts Via Scanning Barcodes

Joe — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 14:53:30 GMT

Thanks for the response here, @Riki! I can step in and assist for Justin here.

To make sure I am understanding you correctly, are you not seeing an option to Receive Stock on your application? If so, this helpful resource might come in handy here.

Let me know if I missed the mark on interpreting your issues! I will keep an eye out for your response.

Re: Inventory Counts Via Scanning Barcodes

LeahfromProduct — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:17:16 GMT

Hi @Riki, wanted to let you know that scanning to perform a stock take/inventory count is now an option if you're using Square for Retail Plus. Details can be found here: https://squareup.com/help/us/en/article/7401-inventory-counting-with-square-for-retail