The UPC/ISBN editing box fills in automatically when you scan a product's barcode into your system. So, for books, when you scan a title's ISBN, the UPC/ISBN box will automatically fill in with the ISBN. For general merchandise, when you scan the product's UPC, the UPC/ISBN box will automatically fill in with the UPC.
However, you can change the value in the UPC/ISBN box if you want, and you can add additional rows to the box (multiple barcodes) if you desire--for example, a Mass Market paperback will have multiple barcodes. The first row, as stated, will fill in automatically when you scan the title into your system; but you can manually add other barcode numbers below that row, or replace the scanned barcode value with another one.
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When you scan a Mass Market paperback's barcode, the system will swap the title and price sections of the barcode, in essence enabling the system to identify Mass Market paperbacks at the individual-title level. |
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Any ISBNs or UPCs in the UPC/ISBN box must be unique throughout the system. That is, you cannot have duplicate ISBNs or UPCs for different products. You can have multiple items residing under the same ISBN or UPC (item-level inventory), but they would all be considered by [i] Merchant to be the same product (such as different editions of the same book--two items, same title or product). |
To add additional rows to the UPC/ISBN Box:
Beneath the first row, click on the Add button. A new, blank row will appear. This is where you can key in a secondary barcode.
Repeat this process if you need to add a third row, etc.
To delete a barcode value within the UPC/ISBN Box:
Click on the arrow to the left of the row you want deleted. The fields within this row turn yellow. This means the entire row is selected.
With the cursor still on the arrow to the left of the row you want deleted, right click your mouse. A menu appears, with Delete Row being the only option.
Select Delete Row. A message box appears, asking you if you want to delete the row.
Select Yes. The row is deleted.
You can undo a change you just made within the UPC/ISBN Box:
Select edit from the menu at the top of the computer screen. A small menu appears.
From this menu, select Undo. A message box will appear, saying current changes have not been saved and asking if you want to abandon the changes you just made.
To complete the Undo, select Yes.
Important: You cannot undo a change once the change has been saved.