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Feature Request: Track inventory on modifiers

StickbowArchery — Tue, 18 May 2021 00:01:22 GMT

The title of this post has been edited from the original: Tracking Modifiers in Inventory

One of the things I sell are archery bows. When I sell a bow, it comes with a bowstring. I also sell individual bowstrings. I track inventory for bows AND bowstrings. At the end of the day, I would like to see the TOTAL number of bowstrings out of my inventory (strings that went out wilh each bow + the strings sold individually).

The only way I've seen to do this are 1) "sell" a string with each bow, reducing the price to $0.00, or 2) attach a modifier to each bow that has the proper size bowstring automatically attached. Option 2 would work best for me because I would eliminate employees forgetting to perform the steps in option 1, however I cannot find a way to accurately track my bowstring inventory while employing option 2.

Any suggestions?

Re: Tracking Modifiers in Inventory

Tom — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 23:25:35 GMT

Hey @StickbowArchery, welcome to the seller community! 🎯

At this time, we don't have a way to deduct multiple items from inventory unless they are entered in separately during the sale. Rest assured that I'll be sharing your experience with our Product Liaison team, who is always working to make improvements.

For now, I would suggest having a look at RCT's process for tracking inventory and modifiers and you might find some useful tools in one of our Items & Inventory partner apps. Hopefully either one of these options helps with tracking your archery equipment.

Please don't hesitate to let us know if anything else comes up!

Re: Tracking Modifiers in Inventory

WC3-Playhouse — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 20:30:46 GMT

We second this so much! Very different use case as we sell mixed drinks but tracking modifiers would be most helpful to track over-pours and such.

Re: Tracking Modifiers in Inventory

Spenser — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 17:38:20 GMT

Definitely hear you on that, @WC3-Playhouse. We'll update here if anything changes in the future. Thanks!

Tracking modifiers Amount

Fenn1974 — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:23:18 GMT

This is just a request for your development team is it possible you could ask them to update the software to allow us to know how many quantities are used on the modifier a list I do appreciate you adding that to the reports but we put zero sales on a modifier but we'd like to know how many times that particular item we use it is for a shaved ice business and the main item is the size and the modifier is the particular flavor but because we add the price to the size and not the modifier we have no way of knowing how many of that particular flavor sells.

Will this be a possibility in the future or is this something that cannot be done .

Re: Tracking modifiers Amount

Spenser — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 20:59:37 GMT

Hi @Fenn1974, I moved your post to another thread on this topic. No updates at this time but we'll let you know here if that changes. Thanks for posting!

A suggestion for a new feature

Psi — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 21:01:35 GMT

Hello

I would love to see a new feature added to innovatory management.

I would love to see an option to track innovatory with item modifiers. I currently sell a style of necklace, and my customers have a choice of 4 different chain sizes. I would like to be able to have a modifier set up for chain selection, and then have it deduct innovatory from the chains. This was I can keep track of how many of one size chain sells, and how many pendants sell without having to make the chain a separate item.

Thank you for your time in reading my wish.

P.S. Would love if iPhone app could do the category features like the iPad app does. I do not have the space for an iPad, and the big mess of items does make me a little sad when I took so much time to organize them online.

Thank you again

Psi Creations

Re: A suggestion for a new feature

Russell — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 00:54:15 GMT

Hi @Psi - thanks for asking about this.

A few other sellers have also asked for this and shared ways to work around this. Definitely take a look at RCT's process for tracking inventory and modifiers - you may also find some useful tools in one of our Items & Inventory partner apps.

We will also let our Product Team know that you're looking for the Item Grid on the phone app.

Let us know if you have any tips to share!

Is there a way to keep inventory on items created as "modifiers"

MobileIceStand — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:07:12 GMT

Hello,

I am a mobile italian ice stand and am mainly a cash based business. I count cups to ensure they line up with cash & sales entered into the square system. But I also keep track as to how many of each size cup I am getting per my bucket of slush. Both analytics are important for my business projections/auditing.

I was wondering if I there was a feature that kept inventory for modifiers, in a similar manner that it does for items?

Reason being:

I currently have my Items set up by the size "Low Tide" "High Tide" "Rip Tide". Then as a modifier they are able to select which flavor was chosen. This helps me to ensure that each cup is accounted for, and that there is a matching transaction in the square system along with the cash or credit cart payment & greatly helps me keep track of when I am running low on cups.

I also like to keep track of how many scoops I am getting per each bucket. But unfortunately I haven't been able to figure out how to keep inventory on modifiers?

I used to have my items set up by the flavor, with the modifiers being set up as the cup sizes. Having it set up that way, enabled me to see how many scoops I was getting out of each bucket, but made it very hard for me to audit how many cups were given out daily.

Does anyone know if there is a way to keep inventory on Modifiers? Or will this be a feature coming in the near future?

I am sure an Ice Cream stand would benenfit from having this feature as well?

Thanks for your help!

Kristen

Kristen's Cart

Italian Ice

Re: Tracking modifiers Amount

MobileIceStand — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:35:46 GMT

I own an Italian Ice business and have been struggling to find a solution to this as well!

I started by entering each item by flavor, with the size as a modifier. That way I could see how many scoops I was getting per bucket and which flavors were most poplular. But it was definetly difficult for me to keep track of cup inventory and auditing my employee's to ensure no cups were given away.

I just recently switched over to keeping the items entered by size, with flavors as the modifiers. Which makes it a lot easier to keep track of cup counting, but now I can not tell which flavors sell best, or how many scoops I am getting out of each bucket.

I was just curious if you ever found a solution to this problem and how is it that you set up your square register?

I would assume Ice Cream Stands would benefit from this feature as well. So that they are able to keep track of their toppings?

Re: Tracking modifiers Amount

Fenn1974 — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 14:54:10 GMT

Square Recently updated it you can now track how many of each flavor you sale on the modifier but you have to do it from a computer not on the app and click on Sales then click on modifiers and then you'll see each modifier item and the quantity even if it shows a zero sales

Thank you Square

Re: Is there a way to keep inventory on items created as "modifiers"

Tom — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 01:09:58 GMT

Hi @MobileIceStand, thanks for reaching out and taking the time to share!

You can use modifiers and price points to customize items in your library, but only price points are tracked with inventory management. I noticed that Fenn1974 offered a workaround in this thread: Tracking Modifiers in Inventory.

Does that help get you where you need to be for now? If not, please let me know and I'll be happy to take a deeper dive.

Re: Tracking modifiers Amount

MobileIceStand — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 04:03:04 GMT

Thank You Fenn1974!

Do you sell a similar product? If so, do you have any other recomendations for how you use the square system to keep track of your product/business/inventory?

Kristen

Re: Is there a way to keep inventory on items created as "modifiers"

MobileIceStand — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 04:09:41 GMT

I think that will do it for now!

I do have a few other questions, but not directly related to "modifiers" 🙂

Thank You Tom

Re: Is there a way to keep inventory on items created as "modifiers"

Tom — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:13:40 GMT

Awesome.🙌 Thanks for circling back and for your patience! We're always working to improve our products based on seller feedback — please keep in touch for updates!

In the meantime, if any other questions come up — let us know. 🙂

Re: Tracking modifiers Amount

rgvvapes — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 04:43:10 GMT

I own a vape shop and need something like this. I cary several brands of liquid with multiple flavors that differ from brand to brand and coils with different resistance at any given time. Each flavor comes in multiple sizes and multiple nicotine levels. Am I able to track how many bottles of a specific flavor sold in a specific size and specific nicotine level? Same thing with the coils. With my current pos, I can create a product matrix. I start with the brand, then i set the flavors, the sizes, and the nicotine levels and put them in whatever I want. It will then generate each combination possible as an item in the order specified and via the pos interface, all my employees have to do is pick the brand, the flavor, the size and then the nic level, or whatever order I put them in. This allows forecast what sizes, flavors and nic levels i need to order. This would be a great feature to add.

Re: Tracking modifiers Amount

puka — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 17:23:22 GMT

Hey @rgvvapes!

Were you able to see if @Fenn1974's response worked out for you? If not, please let us know and we'll see if we can get you in the right direction.

Re: Tracking modifiers Amount

Fenn1974 — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 03:06:49 GMT

I'm not sure we sell Shaved Ice at a high output stand square helps a lot there is a lot more on the dashboard you just have to explore it if you have a question about something specific I will try to help

Re: Tracking modifiers Amount

rgvvapes — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 04:54:20 GMT

It seems like it would partially work. The way I set it up is to have the E-juice brand as the main item, then add the size as a variant since that is the only thing that would cause the price to change, then have the flavors and nicotine levels as modifiers. I get that I can track the sales afterward. However, the problem I am faced with is that I cant add/check inventory for the modifiers. I don't care that I have six 30ml bottles of Brand A. I need to know I have six 30ml bottles of Brand A in Blueberry of which 3 are 0mg of nicotine and 3 are 3mg of nicotine, and so on and so forth. If this worked the way I needed, I would be able to get alerted when inventory is low for each combination of flavor, nicotine, and size. I hope that makes sense. Let me add a screenshot of an example of one of the POS system's I'm considering that does what I need.

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Re: Tracking modifiers Amount

Chad — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 22:30:29 GMT

@rgvvapes, I've got an understanding of what you're looking for, but I don't think our inventory tracking is going to be the best fit to be honest. Mainly, because we don't have tracking for modifiers and variations. I'd hate to see you waste time trying to set this up with a huge item library.

I will make sure to pass this feature request along to our product team. I would love to see our Inventory tracking expanded to fit your needs, but I don't have a timeline for when this might be avalible.

If you have any questions please let me know!