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How can I import inventory items without creating variations?

Cool_1861 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:23:40 GMT

I'm new to Square and switching over from Lightspeed. I run a bicycle shop. We have tons of small parts in our inventory, but very few items exist as "variations." Lightspeed has a feature like this, and I've only found fit to use it on two occasions.

When I imported my inventory via the template, Square seems to have created several identical variations for every single SKU. (I left the "variation" cell blank in the Square template.) How can I avoid these needless / incorrect variations?

Re: How can I import inventory items without creating variations?

TheRealChipA — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:42:21 GMT

@Cool_1861 Square has a default variation, called "Regular." I would try replacing the blank variation with "Regular," then importing. That should fix it, but let me know if it doesn't.

Re: How can I import inventory items without creating variations?

Cool_1861 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:27:06 GMT

Thank you, that worked like a charm! Also led me to figure out how to "downfill" a cell in google sheets by typing "Regular" and double-clicking the dot in the bottom right-hand corner of the selected cell. Thank goodness I didn't have to copy/paste the word "regular" 1600 times. I am slowly learning how to spreadsheet XD