Square Online: Allow Display-Only / In-Store-Only Items for Variable Weight Products

We operate a specialty meat market and carry many variable-weight products such as steaks, roasts, chops and other butcher-case items.

These products can't reasonably be sold through Square Online at a fixed price because the final weight and price vary.

However, we'd still like customers browsing our website to be able to see what we carry.

It would be extremely helpful to have a Display Only / In-Store Only option for Square Online items.

The item could still display its:

  • Photo
  • Product name
  • Description
  • Category
  • Price per lb. or “Price Varies”

Instead of an Add to Cart button, it could simply show “Available In Store” or “In-Store Only.”

This would be useful not only for butcher shops, but also seafood markets, delis, produce markets and other retailers selling variable-weight products.

 

We don't necessarily need these items to be purchasable online, we just need customers to be able to browse them alongside the rest of our catalog.

 

Currently, the alternative is maintaining a separate online catalog just to show products that Square Online can't sell, which creates duplicate work and a fragmented customer experience.

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