Silent Auctioneers! How do you enter items into Square?

BethSMF — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 19:14:41 GMT

I am with a nonprofit. We have items (70+) for Silent Auction, all individually priced, but some of which may have the same price. For example, the Minimum Bid for items 1, 20 and 52 are all $50. How do you create your items, one at a time or upload from a system like Airtable? How do you indicate in Squareup that there should be a minimum and that the volunteers who are doing the checkout enter the actual price paid (winning bid)? I've been doing it one entry at a time. I'm trying to do a big data dump into Squareup, but I can't physically edit the word SKU to Minimum Bid. I can't get the Item Number and description to all appear on the screen. I have "merged it" so that it's one line, but only the first 3 letters, which happen to be the number, appear. I haven't touched Squareup since September 2023 so it could be there were some changes. Help!

Re: Silent Auctioneers! How do you enter items into Square?

Candlestore — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 18:54:08 GMT

@BethSMF ;

I am not sure how to set up an Item for a Minimum Bid amount with Square. Best way I know to do this would be leave the Price blank that your Volunteer would enter the Sale price at the end of the auction. You may have to have the minimum bid $ amount in either the Field name Before or after the actual Item name or in the Description Field.

You can Download your Square catalog to a csv file like Excel, Google Sheets, or Apple Numbers. You can edit the Rows Under the Headers to what you need. SKU can be numbers and letters and can be read by a Scanner if you have one. So not sure how your entering a Price there If you have the $ that might be why. I have 1.99 for my SKU for Items I sell at $1.99. I alsom have a Barcode of Miscellaneous for when we have a Price on an item but it is not in Square. We leave the Price field blank and then enter the actual amount at the time of sale. This is all for In store purchases as a price needs to be entered for online sales.

For New item in a CSV or Excel file:

Reference Handle

Token

Item Name

Variation Name

Unit and Precision

SKU

Description

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