The same price can mean a different box
A Square catalogue check found matching prices but uncertain portions. The agent added the confirmed missing item and kept two ambiguous products unchanged.
On 2 October, while preparing the menu for Sunday 4 October, our agent compared seven menu items with the Square catalogue. I had already described the original Square setup in Part 7 and the weekly routine in Part 8. This run showed why a catalogue check needs to look beyond a familiar name and a matching price.
The clearest example was Teochew Png Kuih. The weekly menu said three pieces for A$16.50. An existing Square item's description said six pieces per box, also at A$16.50. The amount matched, but the descriptions did not establish that we were selling the same pack. The agent recorded the difference and left the existing item unchanged, without creating a duplicate.
The cookies had a different uncertainty. The weekly menu described a bag of approximately 180 grams. Square had a shipping-weight field of 0.18 kilograms, but its selling description did not establish the net quantity in the bag. A shipping field was not enough evidence to treat the portion as confirmed. That item was also kept unchanged and the uncertainty recorded.
There was one genuinely missing item: a Special Kuih Box of ten pieces at A$39.80. Before creating it, the agent checked historical kuih-box names across active and archived items. It then added the confirmed ten-piece box and read back its saved price and variation. Four of the other menu items matched existing products. The completed comparison recorded one addition, four matches and two unresolved portion differences.
Those two differences remained unresolved in that run. The records do not tell us which pack Cindy ultimately intended to sell under the old entries, so I cannot turn them into a story about corrections that were never confirmed. What we can verify is narrower: the new ten-piece item was saved, and the agent preserved the existing entries where the evidence was insufficient.
For our little shop, this adds a practical question to using AI with a product catalogue: what does the price buy? Name, price, pieces, weight and variation need to be compared together. A useful result can include a short list of uncertain items alongside the work completed, so Cindy has a specific question to settle instead of an unexplained catalogue change.
