Title: 2 much needed
Last modified: January 18, 2024

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# 2 much needed

 *  Resolved [CreationNation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creationnation/)
 * (@creationnation)
 * [2 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2-much-needed/)
 * I’ve been using this plugin for about 6 months so far, and you really have to
   spend time with it to learn the nuances of how it works when maintaining product
   syncing between Square and Woo. I have over 2,200 products so it’s a lot of work…
   but could be so much easier. Is there a selective sync option, or a fix for changing
   skus?
   **1) **Please build in a **selective sync** ability (for new products, 
   and for updating products). When you have a lot of products (whether it’s 100
   or 1,000+), you have to wait for it to parse through the entireeeeee product 
   line as it looks for new and/or updated products. Depending on your server, it
   can take up way too long, and I mean way too long. For me it’s a 45 minute process
   when syncing new products in (and that’s without checking the “update products
   as well” button. If not a selective sync – at least have a button on the Woo 
   side that allows an individual product sync, and when running “sync new products”,
   let us not have to sit through the entire product line until it gets to the end
   and adds the new ones. Have it only look from a certain date forward? **2) **
   Please use **some sort of secondary ID/key**, or index 2 fields, or something**
   other than just relying on the SKU** when determining the sync connection between
   Square and Woo for a product. **PLEASE.** I’ll give you a real world example 
   that plagues me constantly. I have certain products that I manually add to Square,
   and some that are auto-imported into Square from wholesale marketplaces (Faire
   dot com for example). Awesome, but… Faire uses product codes, not barcode skus.
   So, if I have run a sync before updating to the barcode sku (happens all the 
   time, I constantly have new products coming in), and then at some point I update
   the sku – it breaks the connection between the product and it causes me a lot
   of headaches. I have some suppliers that change the barcode numbers on same products,
   which breaks the connection. I can’t keep up. Please use some other way to keep
   the connection between Square/Woo in addition to just using the sku, that way
   if a sku changes, it can change that field with the product syncing as well.
 * If anyone knows something I am missing, especially on the sku changes issue, 
   please do let me know – thanks!

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 *  [ckadenge (woo-hc)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ckadenge/)
 * (@ckadenge)
 * [2 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2-much-needed/#post-17354678)
 * Hi there [@creationnation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creationnation/),
 * I understand your concerns about the time-consuming syncing process and the SKU-
   related issues you’re facing with the Square and WooCommerce plugin. Your feedback
   is invaluable, and I’m more than happy to help you with this.
 * 1) Regarding the selective sync feature, currently, the plugin is designed to
   sync all products, and there isn’t an option to selectively sync or update products.
   However, I understand how beneficial this feature could be, especially for large
   product inventories like yours.
 * 2) As for the SKU issue, the current design of the plugin uses SKU as the unique
   identifier for product syncing. I understand how this can cause issues when SKUs
   are changed or updated. While there isn’t a workaround for this at the moment,
   I agree that having an additional identifier would be beneficial.
 * In the meantime, to prevent disconnection, I would suggest ensuring that the 
   SKU in Square matches the SKU in WooCommerce before initiating a sync. I know
   this might not be the ideal solution, but it could help avoid some of the headaches
   you’ve been experiencing.
 * Cheers!

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