Hi @sadmonkeytx. If all you are concerned about are reports, then Square already does this, though not exactly as you are thinking. Until a few years ago, I sold food items. About 4 years ago, I decided to get out of the food business. So I deleted all of my items in my library that were food related. However, when I go back to the years I sold food (and other now deleted items), the reports still show all of the food items, food-related modifiers, etc, even though those items are long gone. Deleting items from our libraries doesn’t delete the item sales history and reporting. It just removes them from our libraries.
I’m including a couple of screen shots from my 2016 item and modifier sales reports. The items circled in red are food items that were deleted 4 years ago. As you’ll see, they still show up in all reporting.
I hope that helps.
