Feature Request: Track inventory on modifiers

[StickbowArchery]

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?

[Tom]

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!

[WC3-Playhouse]

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.

[Spenser]

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

[Fenn1974]

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 .

[Spenser]

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!

[MobileIceStand]

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? 

[Fenn1974]

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 

[MobileIceStand]

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 

[rgvvapes]

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.

[puka]

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.

[rgvvapes]

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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[Chad]

@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! 

[rgvvapes]

That sucks! I was really looking forward to using Square as my point of sale. Thanks for the honesty @Chad. I'd love to be notified if and when that capability is implemented. Love everything else Square has to offer!

[puka]

@rgvvapes - Agreed that it's a bummer. 😕 We would love for you to stick around, but totally understand you moving in a different direction to do what's best for you business in the meantime. We always appreciate the feedback and we will definitely update this thread if we hear of anything! 

[thenope]

I'm just now reading this thread as I have the same questions regarding the modifier be part of the inventory management. Seems like that's not possible. I'd love to know when this functionality will be available. I'm selling different style rings and I'm using the modifier for the different sizes I offer. I need the sizes to be tracked in my inventory. For example, I need to know how many size 6s are in left in stock in specific style ring. Right now, I would only know how many of the specific style is left in stock, but I don't know which sizes. Please let me know if there are any work arounds without listing it out as a variation of an item.

Thanks,

NB

[Helen]

Hello @thenope! At this time item modifiers aren't tracked as inventory, you can only track inventory from item/item variation sales. I'll share your request to be able to track modifier stick with the Inventory team.

Thanks also for letting us know how you would use this. We're always looking for ways to improve Square based on feedback from sellers!  

[AvalonLeather]

Would using one of the linked apps do this? Like Shopventory?  This is exactly my problem, too.

[Fenn1974]

 You can track modifiers now but you have to do it from a computer or a browser you are unable to do it on the square app 

[AvalonLeather]

I discovered that and it's wonderful.  I am trying to figure out if I can translate those modifiers into inventory control and I am not having any luck. I was wondering if Shopventory might be an option.

[AvalonLeather]

What I'm realizing is I need multi level organization in the SKUs. In 1 category I have 6 items with 234 variations. While that makes total since in a spreadsheet, it's completely ridiculous in the POS application. If the combined modifiers could refer to an inventory item, that would be awesome!