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Square shared inventory pain point

Facebook post from Kate Johnson in “Bookstores using Square” group asking if there’s a way to share listings or inventory with another Square account for consignment. Square has no native solution.

Key details

• Source: Facebook — Bookstores using Square
• Ask: Share inventory/listings between two Square accounts for consignment
• Square’s limitation: No direct data sharing between accounts
• Current workaround (via Candice Huber):
  1. Create a category for the partner location
  2. Put consignment inventory under that category
  3. Export to CSV, partner imports it
  4. Partner creates a reciprocal category to track your stock
  5. Partner runs sales reports, exports, sends back so you can adjust inventory
• Pain: Manual, error-prone, not real-time, no automatic payout splitting

Relevance

Validates the shared inventory / cross-store coordination problem at the heart of the vertical integration vision. Real store owners are hitting this wall with Square today. A Medusa-based shared inventory layer could solve this with real-time stock visibility, automatic consignment tracking, and payout splitting — no CSV ping-pong required.