Please, please, let us see when items are on order from the PO screen

[NorthfieldYarn]

My old system would show me when an item was already on order as I was creating a PO so that I didn't duplicate orders for things that were on backorder with my vendors.  (And these days there seem to be a lot of things on backorder with the vendors!) In Square, I cannot see that information unless I run an entirely separate report and reference that alongside the PO. It causes me to waste a lot of time! Items are often on backorder with the vendor, and then I mistakenly order them again, and then we have to spend time sorting out the duplicate orders. 

There was a message about this from January that seemed to suggest Square was working on a new feature, but that comment is closed to replies so I am posting this idea again. 

It's just one of the many things I've found cause my work to take longer and be less efficient with Square. Please, please, add this functionality! 

[thomasbaum572]

I completely agree—having visibility into on-order items directly from the PO screen would save so much time and prevent duplicate orders. Until Square adds this functionality, a workaround could be using custom tags or notes in your inventory system to flag backordered items, though I understand it’s not ideal. It’s great that you’re bringing this up again—hopefully, Square prioritizes this feature soon. Let’s keep the discussion active to push for improvements!

[NorthfieldYarn]

I think that tagging @Square and @BradenSQ might bring this thread to Square's attention. 

[RobynR]

Hey @NorthfieldYarn, thank you for your feedback, and special thanks to @thomasbaum572  for suggesting a workaround.

I've moved your post to our feature request board, where our Product Team regularly monitors the forum and works on improving our products based on insights like yours. We value your business use case and understand its importance to you.

If you know any other Seller Community members who might support this idea, please tag them in your post to gather their input as well! The more sellers that express their interest, the higher the chance of capturing our product team's attention.

[NorthfieldYarn]

@thomasbaum572 

I just re-read your comment and I'd love to understand more about the workaround you suggest, since there doesn't seem to be a solution yet from Square. How would I create a custom tag or a note on an item? I'm not aware of any way to tag items in Square, and I don't know of any notes or tags that would show up at the ordering phase of the process. What am I missing? 

[NorthfieldYarn]

@RobynR Any progress on this? Still comes up constantly and makes placing orders much more difficult and time-consuming. And just last week a vendor called to ask if I really wanted all of the items that had just come in because I had ordered them three different times while they were on backorder! 

Please take our requests seriously, this stuff affects our day-to-day running of our businesses.