Author Bio Eric has been writing about stocks and finance since the mid-1990s, when he lived in Prague, Czech Republic. Over the course of a varied career, he has also been a radio newscaster, an investment banker, and a bass player in a selection of rock and roll bands. A native New Yorker, he currently lives in Los Angeles. A restless company always seeking to build its "ecosystem" of offerings for merchants, Square (NYSE:SQ) is rolling out a new suite of inventory management functionalities. This set of programs allows the company's Square for Retail point-of-sale clients to utilize such inventory tracking features as Easy Item Create and Smart Stock Alerts.