In Stockagile, barcodes can be used on product variants to identify and search for items more quickly.
Requirements for editing product barcodes
The user must have the role of OWNER, STORE VENDOR, STORE MANAGER or WAREHOUSE MANAGER. You can see the different types of roles in the section Create or edit a user.
Types of EAN/UPC barcodes
EAN/UPC codes are the type of barcodes used by virtually all consumer products and are the most widely used GS1 standards. Within this family are the EAN-13, UPC and EAN-8 types, all of which are supported by Stockagile:
EAN-13: it is the most common and is distinguished by having 13 digits.
UPC-A: it is distinguished by having 12 digits.
EAN-8: distinguished by having 8 digits.
In addition to these types of barcodes, Stockagile also allows you to use CODE-128, which allows you to barcode any text of letters and numbers.
Steps to modify a variant barcode
Before defining the barcode for a variant, Stockagile must be told which type of barcode the product uses. To do this:
Go to the side menu and click on the PRODUCTS button in the CATALOG section.
The list of products will appear, click on the product you want to modify.
Once inside the product sheet, click on the DETAILS tab.
In the Barcode Type field, in the STOCK section, you can change which type of barcode this product uses.
Step 4: Barcode type field
Editing the barcode of a variant
To change the barcode of a particular variant follow the steps below from within a product screen:
Once inside the product sheet, click on the VARIANTS tab.
In the variant table you will see a column named after the product's barcode type (EAN-13, UPC-A, EAN-8 or CODE-128). Here you can edit the barcode in cohesion for each variant. ⚠️ Important note: not all numbers are valid barcodes. EAN-13, UPC-A and EAN-8 have a validation digit. In this case, if you enter a number with the wrong validation digit, the program will not let you save it.
In case you want to auto-generate a barcode based on the Barcode Configuration, just click on the blue button to the right of the code and Stockagile will give the next free code.
Step 2: Barcodes for each product variant
Step 3: Generation of a new barcode