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!

[Thegrooveshack]

Why can’t you create po’s from the app and why can’t you Create a po worksheet with retail price instead of cost so employees can properly and easily price products?

[TiffanyNR]

@kellyj 

Agree! I'm wondering why the POS app does not have the functionality to request and create a PO based on low quantities they see. Please add this feature.

[tspoutlet]

Need to be able to auto populate low stock items on purchase order based on vendor.

Please move this to the top of the feature request list!

[mobilebikepro]

It's absolutely crazy that we can't create a PO based on low inventory alerts!  For that matter, you can't even VIEW the vendor code from the dashboard.  You have to open up each freakin' item to find it.  The POs need the vendor code so please make it visible and easily viewable on all screens.  In addition, for the love of God can you please give us the ability to at least export only the list of low inventory????  Especially if you can't give us these other very basic functions.

[Okinawa]

I know this is an older thread., but since Retail for Square is available in the states. When will this be available in Japan. It's definitely a game-changer and definitely put Square in the lead in Japan. I would pay for this feature.

[FND]

Hi, is there any way of knowing through the Item library that a determined item was already ordered through (Item management> Purchase orders) ? 

Something like: 

 - ITEM LIBRARY - 

ITEM NAME  -   IN STOCK    -     ORDER PLACED

(product)                 ( 5 )                         (10)

[Valentina]

Hi there @FND 👋 Pending stock received will only show under the Purchase Orders section of Inventory Management within your Square Dashboard. You can choose to filter items in your Item Library by Low Stock Alert or Out of Stock Alert - however, there are no additional inventory-related filters to utilize, at this time.

[Littlepnuts]

Yay!!! I just saw that this was done!!! Thank you! This last purchase order was a breeze since the system helped flag me to add low stock to a new PO!!!

[EggMan]

Any update on this? end of 2020 and now using the square for Retail app.

I'd much prefer not to have another app plugged in for the inventory. Working with two stores and having to manually create purchase orders is both time consuming and can get away from you especially when dealing with 20+ suppliers weekly.

[jgrgetich]

Recommend someone visit the idea of changing how we add inventory into Square for retail.  Often, like me, have over 3000 items to update every week.
1.  Let us Add inventory utilizing EXCEL or CSV files so that it reflects our COGS.  Currently we can only change the item amount, but that doesn't change the COGS, just changes the inventory. We need a Column in excel that adds inventory to the current inventory to reflect accurate COGS.

2.  When we have inventory that moves every week, we are usually on our square dashboard adding those items after an order is placed.  I know I am.  Because I just don't have the time to add the items when they come into the store the day they arrive.  They go from the box to the shelf.... and I cant be on the computer at the same time.  I add the inventory before it is actually on the shelf.  Often we have products that are either backordered or didn't arrive.  but it is still reflected in our inventory as arrived.  Give us an additional option when adding inventory as in "ordered" , keeping those items in an "Ordered" cart until they arrive and we receive them.  Once the order is received, we can conduct an order inventory and maybe you can make it possible for us to "Receive Inventory" with one click or edit the "Ordered" items then click a one receive button once it is received.

3. Purchase Orders (Beta)  I think this is going to work out great.  However, for retail stores like myself where product has a moving wholesale price every week, it isn't possible to send a wholesale company a purchase order.  we physically have to go to their website, see what they have available, and order through their system.  They are not going to view our purchase order and do the work by inputting our order.  However, utilizing Purchase Order would be beneficial as a one stop and shop file for us retail outlets, where it immediately lets us know what we are running low on and need to place an order for those items.  That concept is awesome and needed.  However, i am not going to send them our purchase order.  Make it so we can see what we need without sending it and then having to delete it.  The information is needed and I am sure their are those that will need it, but for those of us that deal with changing prices and having to utilize their ordering system, make it friendly for us to utilize without sending and deleting. the order.
4.  Add a column in excel for us larger inventory to add weights to our items and link it to weebly.  Currently our online store has to add weights to individual items and their variations.  Make it so the item inventory EXCEL or CSV can give us the option of adding weights in that file format so that weebly can snag it for the online part of square..... or have weebly allow us to utilize excel to do that to our items.  There is no time to add 13,000 different weights to items individually.  Or maybe let us in weebly add a default weight to categories so it updates all of them.  they currently have an update/change all to variations to an item, should not be to difficult to write that option in for categories or to add it in a column for us to use in excel.