Why no abililty to enter future purchase orders for new vendors and items not in current stock?

[Mannequinatsd]

Why do we not have the ability to enter future purchae orders for New vendors and itmes not in our current stock?  It would be great to be able to enter what we have on order and when it arrives be able to quickly transfer to inventory and print labels.  As it currently stands, the purchase order field is only for ordering additional items in stock or running short.  It would be nice to have both options.  

Thanks!

[Littlepnuts]

This is a great question. I too would like the ease of being able to create purchase orders per vendor. My question to you, where are you able to put the vendor in? I have not been able to do so. Are you creating a modifier or a category to enter the vendor name?

[PhoenixPearlTea]

Nah, they JUST added the funcitonality. It's in the item creation/editing screen. If you click on the modifier (assuming there's only one), it'll pop up and ask for the vendor and cost. Keep in mind this requires the Inventory Management that comes with Square for Retail.

[Chad]

Hello @Mannequinatsd, welcome to the Seller Community! 

Thank you for providing feedback on Square for Retail! I think this would make for a good addition to the product. I'll make sure to pass this feature request along to our Product Team! 

[Trish_Yarn]

18 months later, I don't suppose any progress has been made on this? Being able to automatically add items to a PO when the Low Stock Alert threshold has been triggered would be a huge help. Please advise of the status of this.

[jo5]

I think it would be very helpful if you can create a purchase order through the Square dashboard or retail through the Square dashboard or retail POS app for all your low stock items. And by default it would add one it would add one to the quantity of each item and you could go in and change the quantity. Also it would be nice if you could create a purchase order through the POS app on the iPad and be able to just scan items to create a purchase order. 

[Tom]

Thanks for bringing this up, @jo5. I'm going to check in with our Retail Team and we'll be back with any available insight. Appreciate your patience!

[Tom]

Update: I was able to get in touch with some folks on our Retail Team and they are aware that this is a popular feature request. I wasn't able to uncover a specific timeline for when it may become available, but we'll definitely announce any developments.

Please keep in touch as we do make iterations based on seller feedback!

[jo5]

@Tom Thank for getting back to me on this, and glad this is going to be a feature for the future because It’s just a little time consuming to create PO’s and order low or out of stock items. I really love using Square and don’t want to use anything else but I think these features would seal the deal and be extremely helpful. Thank you so for the response.

[Tom]

Understood! We appreciate you taking the time to share why this is important. Thanks again for your patience. 🙏

[lukejj]

I think it would be very helpful if you can create a purchase order through the Square dashboard or through the Square dashboard or retail POS app for all your low stock items. And by default it would add one to the quantity of each item and then from there you could go in and change the quantity. Also it would be nice if you could create a purchase order through the POS app on the iPad and be able to just scan items to create a purchase order. Also I would love to see the ability to grab a barcode scanner and in either the of the Square POS apps go to a tab and be able to scan items into inventory. Or be able to upload a CSV document with minimal information (such as item name sku/barcode and new qty)