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!
Hi everyone, this clearly isn't a priority for square as this thread appears to be going on for over 3 years. I also require sub categories. I want to manage all my inventory in square, but I am forced to manage inventory in woocommerce which stinks.
Thanks for chiming in here, @Jeremywest. Every request from our Sellers is considered a priority on our side, but I can definitely understand your frustration in regards to lack of movement here.
Our engineering teams are constantly working on new updates and features for thousands of requests, and sometimes we miss the mark on release times. We really appreciate you hanging with us on this one. We will be sure to update everyone here when we have more info to share.
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I really would hope after this number of requests something is being done about this?
If not I will want to start looking for an alternative as it's quite an issue not having this capability, for me along with many many others it seems. Can we get an update on this?
Hi there, @Bonnie5 - thanks for reaching out to check in on this feature.
No news to share on this front just yet. We will continue to update this thread as we have new information to share with you all. We appreciate your patience!
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As you and the others are aware, it seems this feature would be widely used. With over 1k thread views and a large number of replies, you can probably imagine the number of Square users outside the community looking to leverage something like this.
While I understand you're not the one saying "yay" or "nay" on making it happen, I was hoping that you could give some additional insight on the feature request process. Being a product manager by day (small business owner by night) I understand a lot goes into feature requests and whether they are implemented or not. I understand that considering requests depends upon things like difficulty to implement (technical using code/etc), how much it's being requested, and things like priority of importance. Along with that, I understand there are various steps/stages a request could be in.
My question is, can you provide us some detail on where this feature request is at? Has it gained traction or is it still looking for user "buy-in"? Has it been formally requested and being discussed by Square Development team? Is it being tested?
Im not looking for specific dates or anything like that, I'd simply like to get a little more information on where the request is at in the process. Appears this request has been requested for years and by many, especially within the past year. Any information on if this has gained traction or not would be wonderful and I think appeal to the many on this thread.
I was told in my discussion today with Square Support, that it is possible to add items to multiple categories. Is this incorrect? I need multiple categories because I am a multi-vendor boutique and need to have their item in their own category for sales payouts and inventory reports and then have my website categories (Home Decor, Clothing, Toys, Etc) for easy customer shopping. Is this not available yet?
I also would like to assign items to more than one category. We sell coffee we branded "GC Coffee", and we also sell a GC Coffee mug. However, our organization name is FEA Ministries so we also have FEA Ministries mugs, water bottles, etc. I have a GC Coffee category and a FEA Merchandise category. I would like the mug to appear in both the GC Coffee category and the FEA Merchandise category as most of our mugs are found in the FEA Merch category.
I am throwing my vote for this option in as well. We are a take out only restaurant that uses bot h the online store (weebly) and a in person sales option (card reader/printer) and EVERYDAY, I have to go in and move things manually from one category to another just to make sure that the menu is correct on our card reader/printer for customers that don't order online.
To piggy back on @fordhamr point, with the size of this thread the popularity of this option is quite substantial. However, the fact that this thread is exactly 4 years old doesn't bode well for any resolution. I'm not a code writing master, but how much code does it take to copy what we can do on the "online store" side and put it in the physical store side.
