hi all, I’ve recently started using the Square API to create new items and item variations in our shop and I’ve noticed a difference in behaviour … when creating an item via the dashboard, you choose “stock received” as the action and when viewing the item afterwards, under variations, the stock va…

This is not intentional - thank you for sharing this and the screen shot! Our engineering team will take a look.

Quick follow up here after looking into it: We do expect to show “Edit variation details” when you have stock tracking enabled at multiple locations. If that was not the case for SKU VCS 7091, let me know - the server might be handling default values in an unexpected way when creating items.

Perhaps I’m missing a setting in the objects for the call. Here’s a PHP snippet: $catalog_object = new CatalogObject(CatalogObjectType::ITEM, "#".$uniq_id); $catalog_object->setPresentAtAllLocations(false); $catalog_object->setPresentAtLocationIds([$this->getLocationId()]);…

To make sure I understand, I’ll summarize and you can correct anything I’ve misunderstood. The intent is to set the item variation for VCS 7901 as available at one location. Based on the screen shot of the display in the Dashboard, it would appear to be available at multiple locations. The snippet …

ah I see… so I’m just setting the tracking of inventory to true on the item variation object. but I really need to use the ItemVariationLocationOverrides object, yes

Square Dashboard "stock received" vs API IN_STOCK

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rrrecords May 17, 2021, 12:46pm 7

ok - got it all figured out now. thanks for the help!!

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