barcode help
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 11:24 pm
hello,
I have been using DHES registers for at least 10 years for firework stands yet I am not very knowledgeable on finer details of how to do things.
I have been using metrologic scanners that are keyboard wedge style (I seem to remember that sometimes they did not work scanning items until they scanned something to "program"? them) That is not my main question though I guess I should refresh myself as to finding the correct barcode to scan for this kind of programming (maybe online which I can print) and then learning how to do it again).
my main dilemma over the years has been getting in new product and then entering the correct barcode numbers into the stock table and then copying the stock table and updating about 16 registers (a real pain)...some companies have thankfully started to release catalogs which have the item barcodes so I can get them entered weeks in advance at home and not right before sales start.
One company has sent me a list of barcode numbers that is one digit shorter than the actual 13 digit barcode number on the items themselves (for example one item has this number printed on the label barcode: 8145270115817 but the companies excel file lists the number without the 7 as the item number. does anyone know how I would integrate these numbers into the stock table and have them work without the last digit?? would this require changing existing numbers in the stock table that are 13 digits to only be 12 if it is even possible? or reprogramming my scanners?? I want to know if it is possible first and then decide if it make sense for me to mix in these numbers with the full numbers I have already in the stock table for current inventory. Last year this manufacturer gave a new expensive item the same number of a previous inexpensive item which was a real pain to try to educate all cashiers of the issue to not charge the expensive price for the inexpensive item.
this year for the fist time I am working in excel workbook which I downloaded from the stock table and doing my editing in excel instead of in the posconfig stock table. I even bought a couple of wireless scanners to hopefully be able to scan some barcodes into the excel worksheet for those items I do not have access to barcodes in advance (previously we had to bring each item to the computer to scan instead of now taking the scanner and tablet to the items).
I have been using DHES registers for at least 10 years for firework stands yet I am not very knowledgeable on finer details of how to do things.
I have been using metrologic scanners that are keyboard wedge style (I seem to remember that sometimes they did not work scanning items until they scanned something to "program"? them) That is not my main question though I guess I should refresh myself as to finding the correct barcode to scan for this kind of programming (maybe online which I can print) and then learning how to do it again).
my main dilemma over the years has been getting in new product and then entering the correct barcode numbers into the stock table and then copying the stock table and updating about 16 registers (a real pain)...some companies have thankfully started to release catalogs which have the item barcodes so I can get them entered weeks in advance at home and not right before sales start.
One company has sent me a list of barcode numbers that is one digit shorter than the actual 13 digit barcode number on the items themselves (for example one item has this number printed on the label barcode: 8145270115817 but the companies excel file lists the number without the 7 as the item number. does anyone know how I would integrate these numbers into the stock table and have them work without the last digit?? would this require changing existing numbers in the stock table that are 13 digits to only be 12 if it is even possible? or reprogramming my scanners?? I want to know if it is possible first and then decide if it make sense for me to mix in these numbers with the full numbers I have already in the stock table for current inventory. Last year this manufacturer gave a new expensive item the same number of a previous inexpensive item which was a real pain to try to educate all cashiers of the issue to not charge the expensive price for the inexpensive item.
this year for the fist time I am working in excel workbook which I downloaded from the stock table and doing my editing in excel instead of in the posconfig stock table. I even bought a couple of wireless scanners to hopefully be able to scan some barcodes into the excel worksheet for those items I do not have access to barcodes in advance (previously we had to bring each item to the computer to scan instead of now taking the scanner and tablet to the items).