How can I track internal sales of custom items on Shopify?

Shopify Apps
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Hello,

We allow our employees to tag onto or bulk purchases to get office supplies, coffee, etc, at a discount. These products do not have their own SKUs, they are brought & sold in under a general “office supplies” catch-all. We have just transitioned to shopify and would like to document these sales there.

Shopify allows us to sell “custom items”, but these sales sync to our inventory platform as a blank line item with little visibility or traceability. We would like to be able to sell a set product “Office Supplies”, with the flexibility to add a custom note & price to the line item on each sale.

The only apps I have seen are geared towards customization on the front end for the customers, not the back end for record keeping. Has anyone seen anything like this?

Thank you very much!

-KG

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You can have a developer add some code on the product page so that when it gets added to cart, it adds notes / line item properties. You use the ajax API: https://shopify.dev/api/ajax/reference/cart.

For the backend, it depends what you mean by that. For example, if you want to track inventory differently, then I would create a separate location (https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/locations).

If you need help to integrate the solution to add line items / notes, I recommend speedboostr.com. They could probably help with the backend stuff to if you let them know what you’re looking to do exactly.

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Thank you, Joe!