uploading item to multiple locations creates duplicates

Question

I am currently using v1 api to upload items to square. For example, the sample item post below is sent to 2 locations. When posting I get an HTTP response "OK", but when I go to the square website to verify that all items were uploaded correctly I see an item per location. This is causing a problem because now I can't modify the item on the square website because it says there are duplicate SKUs.

Then I use the API to get the item information thinking that maybe I would find something there, but the JSON looks exactly the same for both locations.

API documentation: https://docs.connect.squareup.com/api/connect/v1/#post-items

URL: POST /v1/{location_id}/items/

JSON:

{
    "fees": [],
    "variations": [
      {
        "inventory_alert_type": "NONE",
        "track_inventory": false,
        "pricing_type": "FIXED_PRICING",
        "id": "0BBF12F9-1347-11E4-A55E-000C293C8BE4_VID",
        "name": "(Pound)",
        "price_money": {
          "currency_code": "USD",
          "amount": 699
        },
        "sku": "6210067002",
        "ordinal": 1,
        "item_id": "0BBF12F9-1347-11E4-A55E-000C293C8BE4_PID"
      }
    ],
    "available_for_pickup": true,
    "available_online": true,
    "visibility": "PRIVATE",
    "id": "0BBF12F9-1347-11E4-A55E-000C293C8BE4_PID",
    "description": "",
    "name": "Baby Swiss",
    "abbreviation": "",
    "type": "NORMAL"
}

You can see from the picture below that the item shows up twice. I would post more pictures, but since this is my first post stack overflow is telling me I need more reputation.

Duplicate Item

What am I doing wrong? Any advice is much appreciated.

tristansokol tristansokol · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-27T04:43:36

At the moment, that is the expected functionality for the API. New items made with the v1 inventory API can only be associated with one location.

uploading item to multiple locations creates duplicates

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