Consignment and or inventory that Vendors can edit and change in real time ?

[crsween12]

I have been using square for many years and I do love it. However there is a large gap for retail places like mine where I operate as a retail store, but I have many small businesses locally and some out of town people. some times as many as 100 and it is a lot of inventory. I have already explored Rose and although it's a good program for smaller businesses it was not suitable for me. I looked at Ricochet as well but unfortunately it doesn't work with square cash register system. I am in need of a real time system like ricochet for my vendor inventory so that my vendors may add and change their own inventory see their sales in real time. Does square have anything like this available? I know I can provide access under team but I dont want to do that I have to many vendors and there is to much information that they would have access too including everyones inventory and I would have to train them how to use it with out messing anything up and that's just not doable. 

[Summer2024]

Hi, @crsween12 ! 

I totally get not wanting to add all of the vendors in the Team software. It is a ton of work and there is definitely a lot of room for error if they have access to everyone else's inventory as well. I did some research and these are also two third-party options you could try? 

@isabelle do you know of any champtions that use vendors? Maybe they could weigh in here too. 

Here are a couple options that could work with Square - 

1. Finale Inventory

Seamlessly syncs with Square in real-time
Centralized inventory control across locations
Supports separate tracking by channels (store, online, pop-ups), enabling workflow partitioning
While Finale doesn’t offer self-service vendor logins, you can segment inventory and reports however you need for each vendor 

2. Thrive by Shopventory

Offers advanced inventory tracking, vendor management, custom user roles, and strong reporting tools . You can set permissions and restrict access, but still not allow each vendor to independently manage their own SKUs without seeing others.

I hope other sellers can comment here and provide their insights as well.