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Using Square for Consignment Sales

VBBGallery — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 17:04:35 GMT

I'd like to be able to track sales by vendor for a consignment shop. Has anyone used Square to do this? Maybe create a category which is a specific vendor?

Any suggestions on how anyone has done it will be a big help.

Re: Using Square for Consignment Sales

Caty — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 04:35:36 GMT

Hi @VBBGallery! Great question. I know there are several consignment shops who use Square. I'll try to get in touch with someone to see if they can share their experience with you. Thanks so much for posting!

Re: Using Square for Consignment Sales

Kimberlyh — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 15:04:35 GMT

Hi VBBGallery, I own a consignment shop and use square...though I use a consignment software that tracks what purchases sell for each vendor and use square as my POS service. You could make each vendor a category listing on square but I think you'll find it becomes hard to track each item and very labor intensive...hence I would search out consignment software to help with the inventory aspect

Re: Using Square for Consignment Sales

VBBGallery — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 13:50:40 GMT

Hi, thanks, I was thinking that I could just use the category field for vendor. What consignment s/w did you end up using?

Gary

Re: Using Square for Consignment Sales

Msb — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 11:03:42 GMT

Have you come up with a solution for consignment sales

Re: Using Square for Consignment Sales

Enchanted — Wed, 04 May 2016 04:04:16 GMT

I have a small retail business that does carry a small amount of consignment inventory. I have them in two different ways. The first is by category "Consignments" with items grouped by consignee's business name and multiple lines for items under that. The second way is using the company name of the consignee as the category. Each has its benefits. The first helps the volunteers at the shop realize which items are consignment, which coupons or discounts are not allowed to be used on.

Re: Using Square for Consignment Sales

LocavoreStore — Sat, 07 May 2016 18:26:28 GMT

We use the catagories as vendor names/codes. Even though I might selll bananas from 3 different vendors (all on consignment) I can pull it apart in the reporting...

Our backend spreadhsheets pull apart this data and turns it into individual invoices for each consignment vendor. We have to have a master price list, which gets referenced in some crazy formulas to generate a total of each vendor's sales for a spesfied date range.

Re: Using Square for Consignment Sales

TrueNorth — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 20:44:44 GMT

I know it's been a bit since you posted your question, but just curious..have you figured out the best way to do it?

My store inventory is consigned by artisans, so I wonder the same thing. What I do in order for my end of month print out to be easy to just run through and do my figures to know who gets paid what, is omit categories. When I "create item" I use the artisan's name, and then under that I list all the products they consign. It's working well for me EXCEPT for now that i'm trying to launch the online store that Square offers, I can't easily select "sell item online" because of adding the things in inventory this way. I really hope for a future update to accomodate consignment, so that this would be a little easier for us, but this works I guess in the meantime. Hope I explained that well enough... 🙂

Re: Using Square for Consignment Sales

CallWES — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 21:27:10 GMT

@Kimberlyh - Hello,

Would you mind sharing what type of consignment software you use in conjunction with Square? I like Square up and don't want to change, but also need a good software that will help with a customer database, let consignor's see their account status, keep inventory, track sales, run reports, etc. Is there such a software out there that will work with Square Up without having to manually program everything into the system?

Re: Using Square for Consignment Sales

FCTP — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 13:45:19 GMT

Hello, I ALSO have the same question. I love square, and I need a consignment software as well. Which software is best to use with square? Thanks so much for any leads!

How can I record consignment sales in Square?

sundaydrive — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 21:27:07 GMT

I know there have been a couple threads about retail stores and consignment, but I'm curious if any of the makers who sell to the retail stores have any way to record consignment sales in Square? I have a few stores that I work with that are consignment and not prepay or terms.

Thanks!

Re: Consignment - from the maker

Sean — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 21:30:04 GMT

@sundaydrive - Please check out this thread for the answer to your question. Also, feel free to tag other community members by placing an "@" before their username if you have a question for someone specifically.

Re: Consignment - from the maker

sundaydrive — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 01:29:49 GMT

@Sean am I missed my something? What thread?

Re: Consignment - from the maker

Chad — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 01:43:36 GMT

@sundaydrive The number at the bottom of the page indicates`how many pages are in the thread. You can click on the number to browse through the comments. I know it can be a little confusing when your post is at the top of the page.

Feel free to reply back if you have any other questions! 😀

Re: Consignment - from the maker

sundaydrive — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 02:25:28 GMT

Thanks @chad I have seen all those threads and they don't really answer my question.

Those all all seem to be retail stores tracking their consignment payments/sales. I am a maker that sells to those stores. So my accounting for that is different than theirs would be.

Re: Using Square for Consignment Sales

kgoins042 — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 00:55:39 GMT

@Kimberlyh, Could you please tell me what Consignment Software you use?

Vendor sales reports for a mall situation

artisans — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 23:59:51 GMT

I run a small shop of locally produced products and we work similar to an antique mall with vendors. Is there any way to use Square register and print reports for monthly sales per vendor?

Re: Vendor sales reports for a mall situation

Spenser — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 23:57:54 GMT

Hi @artisans, welcome!

I moved your question to another thread on this topic; check out some of the responses on the first page.

There was also a great post from @alexandriak about using Square for their consignment shop, so be sure to check that out as well. Hope that helps!

Using Square for Consignment Sales

deepa1933 — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 21:55:10 GMT

Hello,

Can you tell me if I can enter my inventory and print out stickers or labels for each vendor.

Thank you!

Re: Using Square for Consignment Sales

Spenser — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 02:03:51 GMT

Hi @deepa1933, I moved your post to an existing thread on this topic, hope some of the info here is helpful!