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Mark items as unavailable with Square for Restaurants

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Who is this article for?
  • Account owners or team members with item and inventory permissions to update item availability, modifier availability and stock counts on your point of sale. Set permissions in Square Dashboard.
  • Square for Restaurants Free, Plus and Premium subscribers.
  • Sellers with full service, quick service or bar mode enabled in the Square Point of Sale app.

    • Before you begin

    If you run out of an item or modifier in your inventory or want to no longer sell an item or modifier, you can review the items by marking them as “sold out” from your Square Restaurants POS app or on Square Register or Square Terminal running Square for Restaurants.

    Marks items as unavailable 

    You can automatically set items to show as unavailable when the inventory reaches a set amount or manually list them as unavailable from the Square POS app with full service, quick service or bar mode enabled or from the Square Restaurants POS app.

    Automatically set items to unavailable

    1. Open your point of sale app and tap Account > Items.
    2. Select the item you want to make unavailable.
    3. Under Price and inventory, tap Manage Stock.
    4. Tap Stock received. If you are tracking stock, change your stock count to 0. If you are not tracking stock, select Mark as unavailable.
    5. Tap Done > Save.

    Manually mark items as unavailable

    1. Open your point of sale app and tap Account > Items.
    2. Select the item you want to make unavailable.
    3. Under Price and inventory, tap Manage Stock.
    4. Toggle on Label as sold out at this location.
    5. Tap Done > Save.

    Mark modifiers as unavailable

    You can mark modifiers as sold out or unavailable from your Square Dashboard, the Square POS app with full service, quick service or bar mode enabled, or from the Square Restaurants POS app. The sold out or unavailable state displays across all your sales channels. Marking a modifier as sold out does not extend to third-party integrations.

    Square Dashboard

    1. Log in to your Square Dashboard and click Items & orders > Items > Modifiers.
    2. Select the modifier you want to edit.
    3. Under Stock status, toggle off In stock.
    4. Click Save.

    Point of sale app

    1. Open your point of sale app and tap Account.
    2. Tap Items > Modifiers and select a modifier set.
    3. Toggle off the Available status.

    Next steps

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