Inventory tracking using unit conversion for wine flights

[mollymoran]

We are a wine bar and retail shop that offers flights as one of our menu options. They are our most popular selection. We recently have started tracking our bar menu items using units and creating individual variations for each item offered (ex. 1 btl of wine can be converted into 5 glass units or 10 half glass units). However, the process for ringing up a flight while still using the the individual units is extremely clunky because every flight could be totally different based on what we have open at the time. On top of that, in order to ring up a single half glass for the flight takes no fewer than 6 clicks/taps (1. tap into item -> 2. select half glass units for flights -> 3. tap "set quantity" -> 4. enter quantity as "1" -> 5. confirm quantity -> tap "add to cart") and to do that 4 times for a single flight takes a decent amount of time. Is there a way to streamline this process? Does Square for Retail have a way we can easily track the inventory of our bar wines for flights while not having such a cumbersome way of ringing them up? Thanks for all your help in advance!

[HC_Charlie]

@mollymorannot exactly sure if this would work more easily for you...are you using a Square Register? If so, could you setup the screen so the wine "bottle" you offer would be assigned to each button? You could also assign the lowest increment as the default; for example, just use one quantity of 1/10 the bottle, and if the customer orders a half glass, click on the button one time. and if they order a full glass, click on the button twice (to add the appropriate quantity and charge.) Maybe this is already how you're doing it with the 6 clicks you're describing?

Also maybe thinking you could incorporate a barcode scanner and print barcodes on a sheet for each item/wine brand to help speed input. ???