Re: Can you assign an item to multiple categories?
Posted
06-23-2016
An item can only be assigned to one category at a time. Would you mind sharing more about why you would want an item in two categories? What type of items do you have? I'd love to better understand your request! Thanks!
This is a feature that is available on the online store, but not the physical. I really would love to see it on the normal POS side. My use case is I have summer special drinks. I want them categorized as specials for reporting and easy PoS button access. For example, I have a whiskey cocktail on this menu. I would like to be able to also have this item listed in the Whiskey category.
To take that a step further even, I have to run a report for the state that shows the percentage of Alchohol sales of my total sales. It would be nice to be able to have a single category for that.
If not categories, how about offering something like tags?
@bgallaher - thanks for sharing your suggestions! Currently a feature that hasn't been implemented yet but we're continuously tracking the need for this. Subscribe to this thread I moved you to for update notifications.
We recently moved to use Shopventory for managing our inventory - and what a godsend! Shopventory will allow you to add items to multiple categories!!
However, wah, wah - Square will not DISPLAY items in multiple categories, so it is definitely a software issue! Items that have more than one category assigned to them, only show the first category! So frustrating! We have our regular priced items - but we also need them to be in our happy hour category - that we should, theoretically, be able to auto-discount during the times specified in the discount set-up interface...
For now, anything we want set-up as a happy hour item - we need to set-up as a separate item to be able to do the discount. A lot of work for something that should be relatively simple to adjust in the software's HTML coding! The app, after all - is just a glorified website.
@JustinC One particular way that we would use this feature is as follows. We have a category called "Combo's" where, as you can imagine, you find all the special combinations we offer. Such as a turkey Sandwich Combo. We also have a category for "Sandwiches", where the various Sandwiches are listed. So while Turkey sandwich alone is under the category "Sandwiches" the turkey sandwich combo is only under "Combo's" when we would like to put it under both categories. Hope this makes sense.
Another vote for having multiple category options. We sell items on consignment as well as just straight retail, so it's helpful to have items marked both by their product category (like jewelry) and whether they are on consignment from the maker.
