Archive items in Square Dashboard
About archiving items
You can archive items to prevent them from being sold without permanently deleting the items and losing all item data and stock history. Archived items still appear in your inventory reports.
You have three options for archiving items in Square Dashboard:
Archive a single item
Archive multiple items in bulk
Archive multiple items with the bulk import tool
Before you begin
To archive items, you need to have existing items in your Item library and access to your Square Dashboard. Learn how to create items in Square Dashboard or in the Square POS apps.
Archived items do not appear in Square Point of Sale, the Square Retail POS app, the Square Restaurants POS app, Square Appointments, or Square Online. When you archive an item, all variations of the item are also archived.
Archive items
To archive a single item from your online Square Dashboard:
- Sign in to your Square Dashboard and click Items & orders > Items > Item library.
- Click the three dots (•••) on the row of the item you want to archive.
- From the drop-down menu, click Archive.
- If your item has variations, click Archive to confirm you want to archive all item variations.
You can also archive a single item by selecting it and clicking Actions > Archive.
- Sign in to your Square Dashboard and click Items & orders > Items > Item library.
- Click the box next to each item you want to archive.
- Click the Actions drop-down menu in the bottom right-hand corner > Archive.
- If your item has variations, click Archive again to confirm you want to archive all item variations.
- Sign in to your Square Dashboard and click Items & orders > Items > Item library.
- Click the Actions drop-down menu > Export library.
- In the exported file, go to the Archived column.
- Change the cell from N to Y.
- Import your file by going back to your Item Library and selecting Actions > Import Library.
View archived items
You can view a list of archived items or check if an item has been archived in Square Dashboard.
- Sign in to your Square Dashboard and click Items & orders > Items > Item library.
- From the list of filters across the top of the screen, click Active.
- From the drop-down menu, click Archived.
- See your archived items in the filtered view.
- Sign in to your Square Dashboard and click Items & orders > Items > Item library.
- From the list of filters across the top of the screen, select All statuses or Archived.
- Click an item to view the details.
- You will see a notification stating “This item is archived. Unarchive to begin selling again.”
Archived items show an archived box icon next to them. If you hover over the box, you will see a notification stating “This item is archived”.