Barcodes and SKUs: scan to add

A product can have two codes, both optional. The Barcode is the code printed on the package: the usual codes on packaged goods (EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A) and Code 128, digits and letters. The SKU is your shop’s own code for it, like LATTE-ICED-L: letters, digits and dashes. Letters are kept in capitals.

Give a product its codes

1. In the console, open Catalog and the product.
2. In Barcode, type the number under the bars. With a scanner plugged into the computer, click in the box and scan the product instead.
3. In SKU, type your own code if you use one.
4. Press Save changes.

A pack has its own codes, like the barcode on a box of 24: type them next to the pack on Sold by.

In the Bill&Go Console app, open the product and press Scan next to Barcode to read it with the camera. Type the SKU yourself.

Good to know. Each barcode and each SKU belongs to one product or pack in your shop. If another already has it, Bill&Go says which, so you can take it off there first.

Tip. The search on Catalog finds a product by name, barcode or SKU: scan or type it into the search box.

Scan at the POS

A USB or Bluetooth barcode scanner needs no set-up: it types like a keyboard and ends with Enter. Plug it in or pair it, and scan. The POS looks for the code as a barcode first, then as an SKU, so a label you print with your SKU scans too.

• On the web POS, scan while the cursor is not in a text box. If you were typing a note, click on the menu first.
• In the Bill&Go POS app, a paired scanner works the same way. Or press Scan and hold the code up to the camera.

The product is added just as if you had tapped it. If it has choices to make, like a size, they open first. Scan a pack’s code and the pack is added.

If nothing in this store has the code, the POS says No product has this code with the code it read. Check the product’s codes in the console, or whether the product is sold at this store.