Merging Items

[londontea]

I'd like to see a feature to merge items. I could see one iteration of this – possibly the most simple one – is just to merge two or more items together into one item with no variations (technically there's one variation, but you know what I mean). You'd have to select which item you'll keep the price, SKU, unit cost, etc., and then the stock gets added together. If Item A has 2 stock and Item B has 3 stock, you merge Item B into Item A then the total stock becomes 5 while keeping all the other information from Item A intact. 

A more complex version of merging could have each of the old items become a variation under a new item, with each variation keeping the stock count, unit cost, etc. of the old item. 

Here's my use case: 

The business owner often creates duplicates of items when she makes purchase orders. It's a bit maddening, but don't tell her that I said that!

I usually notice this when I receive a purchase order and see that there are items without SKUs; that indicates that she didn't use the existing item which would have an SKU. In most cases I mark the item as not received and then go into the existing item and receive the stock there. I then have to delete the accidental item. 

It would be much easier for me to just receive the entire purchase order and then merge the new item into the existing item. 

[PhoenixGarden]

+1, definitely needs to be feature

[PowerUpPizza]

The duplication as well fees for KDS are a large reason I am looking at other platforms. 

[candycorn]

I'd love to see this option as well! Sometimes I have started out with the item being a variation and would like to change it to be a separate item and keep the past sales history.