Can we ignore stock on a single checkout on a POS?

[jakecaputo]

Hello! We're selling items that are mainly pre-order for cash at pickup. When ordered online in our WooCommerce store the stock will decrease by one. When that customer picks up the item and we scan it, can we make sure the stock does NOT decrease again? Customers typically pickup around 20 pre-order items once a week, and it's not uncommon to also buy a couple of in stock items off the shelf. I'm trying to figure out a way that regulates the stock correctly.

[RainbowFoodCoop]

What if you had a category for "Pre-order" items?

Like two items named "Pizza (in-store)" amd "Pizza (pre-order)"

[jakecaputo]

Thanks. That doesn't fix my problem though. I spoke with Square support and was told, with stock turned on, when a barcode is scanned the stock will be decreased and there's no way around it. Their suggestion was to manually enter the price of every item. Which, that doesn't really help when I have a customer with 100 items.

[RainbowFoodCoop]

That's annoying, to say the least.