Best practice to remove consignment products from inventory

[shopmingei]

We are a museum store who has been using Square since April 2024, after using Quickbooks POS for many years (10+). 

We mostly purchase our inventory, but still work with a handful of artists on consignment terms. I've figured out workarounds for running sales reports (they aren't great compared to Quickbooks, but they work ok.)

I haven't been able to figure out if there is a "correct" way to return items to the consignor. When an artist brings us items on consignment, we receive them into inventory so they can be sold at the register and we can track the quantity. Some items we try for a few months and if they haven't sold, we return them to the artist, so we need to remove them from the inventory to set the quantity to zero to match what we truly have. 

Is there a good way to do this? Right now I go into each item and change the stock to zero and choose "inventory recount" as the reason. Quickbooks used to have something called a Return Voucher, which would allow you to easily remove multiple items from inventory at a time, and then print a handy report for yourself and the consignor (or vendor if you returned a purchased item). I'm hoping to find something similar. Right now the only "report" is that the item quantity being decreased shows in the overall inventory history (and for some reason there is no vendor listed here)

Any help is greatly appreciated!