Using Square's "Create an Item" as Master Inventory Management In-Store AND WooCommerce Site?

UsernameHere — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 21:56:32 GMT

🎉Our Grand Opening is Monday, and we want to make sure Square is the BEST single-solution for seamless in-store and online inventory management…

Equipment

– Square iPad POS stand + Socket Mobile (in-store sales)
– WooCommerce website (online sales)

Our Question
– We think it's best to use Square as our master inventory management "hub" to enter every item from day-zero forward (rather than using WooCommerce's add-new-item functions); and having those items sync with WooCommerce to track/update all sales both online and in-store in realtime...

Is this (above) a wise sustainable strategy?
Do any limitations, annoyances, bugs, or missing features come up by using Square to sync inv with WooCommerce (rather than upload inv. to WooCommerce and syncing with Square)?
What plugin(s) - if any - would we need to create the beautiful harmony between our physical brick-and-mortar store and our online web-store?

EDIT: After doing some more research, unfortunately, it's clear that the huge limitations using Square as a master inventory system won't be realistic to overcome. There's a great article at https://dbdc.us/articles/square-for-woocommerce-integration-review/ explaining how you can only use one variable, you can't track order data, you can't bundle products, there's no dynamic pricing (BOGO, etc.), you can only sync with 1 location etc.

Re: Using Square's "Create an Item" as Master Inventory Management In-Store AND WooCommerce Site?

Arie — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 03:15:39 GMT

Hi @UsernameHere,

Congratulations on your upcoming opening, how exciting!

I'm sorry to hear that the Square inventory won't suit your needs. While I don't have first hand experience with the Woo-Commerce sync to Square, I'd like to hear any feedback, or suggestions you have that we can pass on to our integrations team. Looking forward to hearing back from you, @

UsernameHere.

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