After saving the price, check the rest of the item

I asked the agent to correct specific Square prices. The saved catalogue confirmed the amounts and also revealed changes in fields I had not asked it to edit.

Late on 31 October, after the catering-page work, I asked the agent to fix a conspicuous price in Square. Pandan Skin Coconut Angku Kuih, sold as a box of five, was showing A$1,650.00. My instruction was specific: change it to A$16.50 and verify that it had saved. The reopened item showed the correct box name and A$16.50. The records do not establish that anyone had been charged the incorrect amount.

I then asked for the remaining per-piece prices to be corrected: Siew Bao to A$5.80, Lor Bak to A$8.40 and Sweet Taro Puff to A$5.00. Three product names led to five catalogue entries. Siew Bao had a one-piece variation under its six-piece box and a separate per-piece item. Sweet Taro Puffs also had a one-piece variation alongside a separate Taro Puff per-piece item. Lor Bak had its own per-piece variation.

The agent updated those five prices and checked the saved entries. Both Siew Bao entries moved from A$6.00 to A$5.80. Lor Bak moved from A$8.50 to A$8.40. The two taro entries had started at different amounts, A$5.50 and A$4.80, and both ended at A$5.00. The Siew Bao six-piece box remained A$34.80, the Sweet Taro Puffs box remained A$30.00, and Lor Bak’s Regular variation remained A$16.80.

The final check compared exports of the whole catalogue before and after those five updates. Both contained 204 rows, with the same item identifiers. That comparison confirmed the five price changes, but it also found six other changed cells. For the standalone Siew Bao and Taro Puff items, the shipping, delivery and self-serve ordering fields had gone from blank to “N”. Pickup stayed enabled in both exports.

Those extra changes belonged in the result. The exports did not establish whether a blank field and “N” behaved identically in Square, so there was no basis for saying that only prices had changed or that fulfilment was unaffected. The requested amounts were verified; the meaning of those additional field changes remained uncertain.

Part 25 described a different catalogue problem, where matching prices left the pack sizes unresolved. Here I had supplied exact target prices, and the work reached saved values we could read back. It also gave me a more complete result to inspect: the intended corrections, the companion prices that stayed the same, and the extra fields that changed along the way. A small price edit still needed a check of the rest of the item.

Fictional clay Mama compares two abstract catalogue sheets with a magnifying glass while her children hold a blank tag and point to a note.
An AI-generated story illustration using our established family characters. The catalogue sheets, tablet and family activity are imagined, not Square screenshots or a record of the children doing this work.

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