Creating Skus

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[edit] How To Use SKUs

• If you haven't already established an SKU system for your inventory, FillZ can auto-generate SKUs on your behalf, if you are entering listings manually through our User Interface. The default for our system includes the prefix "SKU1" and 6 digits follow.

• If you are using "Inventory Input" you can enter your own SKU prefix and select the number of digits. Once you have established a scheme, it is easy to continue with this as a default.

• You can choose whatever SKU scheme works best for you. Some sellers use the following:
  • initials of the person entering data.
  • date the item was entered.
  • the type of item that is being entered: "Book," "DVD," "CD," etc.

• We recommend that you don't use special characters in your SKUs, as some markets will reject these items.

• We have a 30 character limit for the SKU column.

[edit] Alphanumeric Sort

The industry standard (and our recommendation) is to use fixed-length SKUs. For example, use S000 S001 ... S100 S101, etc. to have our default sorting produce the result you expected. We also recommend using a letter in the SKU to prevent spreadsheet programs from dropping leading "0's".

For more information about Industry uses of SKUs, click here.