thread Re: Tracking Average Items Per Sale in Payments Troubleshooting

Tracking Average Items Per Sale

kitch2 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 18:50:50 GMT

The title of this thread has been edited by a Square Moderator from the original: Is there a way to track avg items per sale?

I am trying to figure out if there is a way to have Square automatically track avg items per sale for certain periods of time- without having to go in and do it manually

Re: Is there a way to track avg items per sale?

Sammie_C — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:37:44 GMT

Hi @kitch2, welcome to the Square Community. We appreciate your post!

At this time, there is not a function within Square POS that automatically tracks average items per sale. There is a Inventory Sell-through report which shows the average number of a specific item that is sold per month, but not per sale.

I would recommend adding your idea as a Feature Request on our Ideate platform though! Ideate is a helpful place to get any new ideas or improvements for Square products out there in a public forum.

Hopefully this is a bit helpful! Please let us know if you end up having any other questions in the meantime.

Re: Tracking Average Items Per Sale

Candlestore — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:40:30 GMT

@kitch2 ;

Square usually does things by $$ amounts so an average of Items per Sale would not be quickly available inside of Square.

2 options for you,

Download your Square Transactions and have Excel or similar spreedsheet do the calculations for you.
Inside of Excel (not sure of other spreadsheets) you can have an API call these sales from Square, then have Excel do calculations on these to get the report your looking for.

Here is more about looking into Squares API documents : https://developer.squareup.com/reference/square

This would require time to set it up but once its setup it should be a lot easier for you.

Re: Tracking Average Items Per Sale

Donnie-M — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:44:22 GMT

@kitch2 I would use a custom report and set it up with just the "key statistics" & the "Category Sales " Then you can quickly set the time period and do the items sold/transactions and both numbers will be right there for you. There is a way to set up a custom report using a webhook integration or you could export to a spreadsheet and set up a macro to do it quickly.

Not exactly what you are looking for but 80% there.