wurdpressuzer

UPDATE: After doing more research, unfortunately, it’s clear that the huge limitations of using Square as a master inventory system won’t be realistic due to massive feature restrictions.

There’s a great article at https://dbdc.us/articles/square-for-woocommerce-integration-review/ explaining how you can only use one variable, you can’t track order data, you can’t bundle products, there’s no dynamic pricing (BOGO, etc.), you can only sync with 1 location etc. Just one of these limitations is enough to use WooCommerce as our master inventory management solution. I’m surprised anyone uses Square successfully to operate an online store.

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@serafinnyc — Thanks, that may be the direction we go! After meeting with another small business owner today, she made it seem as though using Square as our master inventory management (adding new products) system alone would be enough, rather than worrying about adding new products to WooCommerce through the WordPress Dashboard. I learned the Square “add new item” process for a few hours and I like the flow overall, especially how it creates barcodes (SKUs) automatically, without the need for any additional plugins like WooCommerce would need it seems. **The one thing I’m NOT sure about is if I’m missing out on any functionality or syncing hassels with our WordPress WooCommerce site by using Square exclusively as our one-and-only inventory adding home base (forgoing the adding new inventory to WooCommerce altogether)?

@judagutor — Really appreciate your reply! It seems the Product Barcode Generator is the best bet (and one of the only options) for creating in-store scannable barcodes to be used with our Socket Mobile Bluetooth scanner. **Here’s my question though: Would it make sense and overall serve our online and in-store based business best to simply choose one upload/inputting resource for all our inventory to sync for both in-store sales and online sales? If so I’d like to stick with just one place to add new products and master that system… would Square be appropriate for that goal, and can you think of any limitations, future issues, roadblocks, or annoyances that might arise from using Square to add every new inventory item and having it sync to WooCommerce automatically?

• This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by wurdpressuzer.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by wurdpressuzer.

Thanks for your replies, we def don’t need barcodes online, but want a streamlined way to create a product barcode at the same time I upload new items to WooCommerce, simultaneously, and for everything to ‘communicate’ with Square so when someone buys it in the store, the stock amount available for online customers is also updated by -1 in real-time.

I’m certain what I’m asking for is the exact process done by millions of shops… I just want to make sure I’m implementing correctly / best from the start!!