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Ask your POS AI what's selling instead of exporting spreadsheets

who Ryan Hester, owner of Comfortably Chic, a family business with six retail shops in Chester, NJ (Square video)

What it does

He asks Square AI direct questions, such as four years of pumpkin-spice and apple-cranberry candle sales with the year-over-year change, to decide how much to order.

Tool cost

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Setup

Easy · or we do it from $497

Tools

Square

The problem

With 13,000 SKUs, working out what sells meant exporting inventory from Square into Excel.

What happened

Self-reported in Square's video: about 20 to 30 hours saved, time he put into opening a new store.

Vendor case study Quoted in the source: Ryan Hester, owner, Comfortably Chic. Source: Square video (2025-11-25) · Added 2026-10-13. Results as reported by the source; we haven't independently verified them.

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How to set it up yourself

  1. Start with one buying decision you make every season.
  2. Ask for multi-year sales of those items.
  3. Check one answer against a manual export.
  4. Use the trend to set reorder quantities.

Copy-paste prompt

Show sales of {ITEM GROUP} by month for the last {N} years with year-over-year % change, then suggest an order quantity for {SEASON} with your reasoning.

Tools used

Square

Point of sale and payments with AI assistant features.

From $0 (free plan; processing fees apply) (checked 2026-10-13)

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Checked prices: Square: from $0 (free plan; processing fees apply) (verified 2026-10-13)

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