Create items with Square for Retail
About creating items
Items are sellable goods that make up your Item library. With Square for Retail Free, Plus, or Premium, you can manually create items to sell from your business.
You have three options for manual item creation with Square for Retail:
From your Item library in Square Dashboard
From the Square Retail POS app on an iOS device
From the Square Retail POS app on Square Register and Square Terminal
Before you begin
To create items, you need access to your Square Dashboard or the Square Retail POS app on an iOS device, Square Register, or Square Terminal.
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Create an item
You can manually create items from your Square Dashboard or the Retail POS app.
- Sign in to your Square Dashboard and click Items > Item library.
- Click Create item.
- Fill in the item details, including item type, name, image, description, unit and location availability.
- If applicable, add item options, variations, stock quantity and modifiers.
- Click Save.
Note: you can add a second unit by clicking Add unit under Units in the Edit item page and filling in and saving your modifications.
- Open the Retail POS app and tap ≡ More > Items > All items.
- Tap Create item.
- Fill in the item details, including item type, name, image, description, unit and location availability.
- If applicable, add item options, stock quantity, variations, modifier set, and select a category.
- Tap Save.
When you create an item from the Retail POS app, it won’t be available at your other locations. You can enable items across multiple locations from your Square Dashboard.
- Sign in on your Square Register or Square Terminal and select Square for Retail as your point of sale.
- Tap ≡ More > Items > All items.
- Tap Create item.
- Fill in the item details, including item type, name, image, description, unit and location availability.
- If applicable, add item options, stock quantity, variations, modifier set, and select a category.
- Tap Save.
When you create an item from the Retail POS app, it won’t be available at your other locations. You can enable items across multiple locations from your Square Dashboard.