Square and SKUs

[CoxRetros]

I am about to participate in my first in-person market and was pleased to see that I can sell my Etsy items via Square.  Venmo has over 30 pages of TOS and I thought that with my Etsy items synching with Square, it'd just be easier to use Square.

I synched my store with Square a couple of times in April and all seemed to go well.  Last night, I thought I'd go through the actual purchasing process and was surprised to see that there are no SKU numbers on the Square app.  My items are there, but I don't want to have to scroll through a list, even if I can narrow it down by searching for a word that's in the title.

I searched in these fora for a solution or even just an explanation and all I found was a moderator scolding others with the same question for bumping an old thread.  So, I am starting a new thread for this.

Thanks!

[ImperialSupplyCo]

I cannot get this to work and quite honestly it’s frustrating to see it dismissed for literal years. 

I can put a SKU in etsy, doesn’t sync.

I put one in Square, and when I sync it gets erased by the Etsy sync.

This is unworkable for those of us who sell large volumes in person and want to use Etsy vs the Square online interface. What is being done to fix this, or at least not have the sync erase the manual entry that we do on Square?

[CoxRetros]

Thanks for the reply.  It's like their Quicken partnership.  They advertise their partnership with another company in a program that's supposed to make our lives easier if we want to use an accounting program or sell in person.  The Quicken program doesn't have an option for Cost of Goods Sold, which is important when you're doing your books.  SKUs is a no-brainer when you're selling in person.

I have half a mind to just use PayPal and not even bother with Square at this point.  It's ridiculous to have not done something about it for so long.

Thanks!

[howtobooksandmore]

There partnerships seem to involve allowing access to certain areas of etsy needed to run the partnership and then collecting money to do that.  Nothing more.  SKUs have always been a problem.  When etsy first allowed them, they appeared nowhere in the system.  Now they appear on the order page and nowhere else.  The workaround is to put it in the title no matter how bad that looks.

[ImperialSupplyCo]

I invested in a Square register so im somewhat locked in at this point unfortunately.  

i just want it fixed, it’s been literal years and my workarounds cost me hours and hours. Bleh. 

[CatsMeowJewelryCo]

Thanks for the tip about putting the sku in the title!

[PrescottBathBoutique]

Two years later, after your initial post, it’s still a problem. I manually entered my SKUs into both Etsy and into Square. I synced both programs for inventory annd all my work on the Square side has been erased. Who can we contact to make a change? I’m not locked into Square. I am even willing to open a Shopify website just to be able to scan my in person purchases for a quicker checkout. I won’t leave Etsy behind, but I will leave Square behind if something else is better. Big sigh. 

[PrincessOlgas]

I am still having this problem. How is it so difficult to sync SKU numbers from Etsy to Square? They are a basic unit of inventory management.