Sandbox 101: Inventory API

In this video we create and search for catalog item variations, increase the amount of inventory in stock, and update inventory by removing damaged stock.

Use the Square Inventory API to adjust inventory quantities and review inventory changes for products in a Square catalog. A Square seller maintains inventory to keep track of the quantity of products for sale or services for hire. Inventory tracking is essentially the process of moving quantities of item variations between the different inventory states. For example, when the online order for a leather collar and heavy sweater is processed, the on-hand quantities for leather collar and heavy sweater are automatically updated by moving the number of purchased units for each item variation from IN_STOCK to SOLD.

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:54 - Create and Search for Catalog Items
1:39 - Increase Number of Inventory in Stock
2:33 - Update Inventory for Damaged Goods
3:36 - Recap

[Sam]

Hi, I am trying to use the Inventory API (testing it in API explorer for now) to update the stock value of an Item Variation, but I am getting Error 400 (Details: Did not expect field to be set. The field can only be set by Square's API when the object is returned. It cannot be set when calling Square's API; Field: catalog_object)