thread Re: Bar Inventory - Ingredient Tracking / Stock reporting in Your Square Account Information

Bar Inventory - Ingredient Tracking / Stock reporting

Steven_Burlton — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 15:18:18 GMT

Please can we have stock in/out reporting for tracking all measures of drinks sold for bar/restaurant? It's beyond crazy that this isn't a feature? We need multiple measures of one ingredient sales across all products - Why can this not be done?

Please advise - This seems to be taking Square so long to sort out.

Re: Bar Inventory - Ingredient Tracking / Stock reporting

Lou8 — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 11:33:31 GMT

Hi @Steven_Burlton, thanks for posting and welcome to the Community 👋.

I understand how such a report would benefit bar and restaurant businesses. This is still a feature request at this stage, but I'll make sure to let you know once it's available.

In the meantime, I have a found a couple of APIs integrating with Square, that might fit what your needs. Both Craftable and Growyze offer an inventory management tool for hospitality businesses. The integrations are not managed by Square, so if you have any questions about their software programs, I recommend contacting them directly.

I hope this helps !

Re: Bar Inventory - Ingredient Tracking / Stock reporting

Jamesrbn — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 20:20:32 GMT

I’m having the same issue.

I find it beyond belief that I can’t add a 700 ml bottle of spirit to my stock and the the system know each time I sell -

a 25 ml shot, or use another measure such as 35ml in a cocktail.

I’m still waiting for my pos system to arrive so it’s not even in yet and this is a major issue!

any timescale on when square I’ll join all other pos systems that work well for bars?

Re: Bar Inventory - Ingredient Tracking / Stock reporting

iain697 — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:21:02 GMT

Same here, it was asked for at least 12 months ago by several people but no one seems to listen....

Re: Bar Inventory - Ingredient Tracking / Stock reporting

Lou8 — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:13:07 GMT

Hi @Jamesrbn and @iain697,

While stock conversion is a feature available with Square for Retail, what you're trying to achieve would be a feature request.

A member of our community found a couple of other API integrations that might suit your businesses. You can find her post here.

Re: Bar Inventory - Ingredient Tracking / Stock reporting

Jamesrbn — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:24:27 GMT

Hi Lou8

Any idea if this is coming, im not going to commit to a system that is amazing, but, will never get a feature that is really important

James

Re: Bar Inventory - Ingredient Tracking / Stock reporting

iain697 — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:10:21 GMT

@Lou8 ..... illustrating my point, it has been requested several times as a feature, but seems to fall on deaf ears. I'm sure i did a post a while back with all the links to every time it was requested. I know you guys now have a feature request system, so not sure it is on there, but it is a popular request

Re: Bar Inventory - Ingredient Tracking / Stock reporting

Lou8 — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:50:35 GMT

I understand your frustration @iain697 @Jamesrbn.

The implementation of new features is a complex process and requires a lot of work from cross-functional teams. Our engineering team needs to establish whether a feature is doable and meets the necessary requirements. In addition, external factors can add extra layers of complexity to the process.

Though I don't have a timeline to share at the moment, I will make sure to let you know of any developments.

I would also suggest joining our Beta Community if you haven't already @Jamesrbn.

Thank you for your patience.

Re: Bar Inventory - Ingredient Tracking / Stock reporting

Jamesrbn — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:40:52 GMT

Hi Lou,

I understand that, but are there plans to do it, if you tell me its being worked on ill be happy.

At the moment square has this odd quirk where

restruants is a great app for bars but cant track stock variable

retail is a rubbish app for bars but can track variables

how hard is it to merge it into a new app called......Square for bars?

james

Re: Bar Inventory - Ingredient Tracking / Stock reporting

Lou8 — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 11:37:15 GMT

Hi @Jamesrbn,

The feature is on the roadmap, but I don't have a release date to communicate at this stage.

We will post any update on this thread and the Product Update board.