So… I have a couple of answers/suggestions.
First, the item syncs for editing usually are pretty quick, on the order of a few minutes in my experience. If I don’t see those edits within say 5-10 minutes then I’m wondering if I have an incorrect setting for things like “available for sale online” or “available at a location” set up correctly.
Otherwise, I assume that once you’ve made a batch of something you have a reasonable estimate for number of servings. If you do you can set up that initial guess in the inventory tracking and have your sales deplete them automatically. Obviously, you’ll still probably need to 86 items to account for human error (overportioning, underportioning, waste and spillage, etc). But once you run out of something, you can just turn it off on your POS or your web dashboard. The item will still show online but it just won’t be available for adding to a cart. That part is as nearly instantaneous as possible, in my experience.
I definitely would not make extra work for yourself by removing items from the website when they are 86ed, however. That is adding a layer not only to your workload but also requiring item sync to do unnecessary work. Let inventory count tracking do its job. And, to echo a previous discussion we had that resulted in a feature request, hopefully we can soon do the same sort if inventory count-down at the modifier level.
I hope that helps. But don’t hesitate to keep asking questions as they arise.
Chip A.
Square Expert & Innovator and member of the Square Champions group. (But NOT a Square employee, just a seller like you)
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