Create inventory alerts
About inventory alerts
You can keep track of your inventory and know when inventory is running low by creating low stock alerts. With low stock alerts, if an item’s in-stock quantity count falls below the set threshold, an alert is generated. These alerts help businesses maintain optimal stock levels, prevent stockouts or overstocking, and ensure smooth operations.
Before you begin
You can only create low stock alerts from your Square dashboard.
Make sure you’ve created at least one item in your item library. Learn more about how to create and edit items with Square.
Set up inventory alerts
- Sign in to your Square Dashboard and click Items & Orders > Items.
- Tick all of the items you want to create a low stock alert for.
- Click Actions at the bottom right corner > Update low stock alert.
- Enter an alert amount from the “Update stock alert” window.
- Click Update to save your changes.
Items with stock alerts enabled and have low stock will have a yellow circle in the Stock column.
- Sign in to your Square Dashboard and click Items & Orders > Items.
- Tick all of the items you want to create a low stock alert for.
- Click Edit items > Update low stock alert.
- Click Attributes and tick Low stock alert from the “Bulk edit items” window.
- Enter an alert amount in the Low stock alert location column.
- Click Update to save your changes.
Items with stock alerts enabled and have low stock will have a yellow circle in the Stock column.
- Sign in to your Square Dashboard and click Items & Orders > Items.
- Click the item you want to update.
- Click Low stock alert under the Tracking section from the “Edit item” screen.
- Toggle off Low stock alerts > Done.
- Tap Save to complete your change.