Introduction to SHOPLINE POS Retail Barcode Management App
The SHOPLINE POS Retail Barcode Management app is an integrated tool designed for rapid retail checkout, enabling store staff to add products directly to POS orders using a barcode scanner. This digitalizes and automates the product identification and entry process, replacing traditional manual searching or SKU input, thereby significantly simplifying and accelerating the store's checkout flow.
This guide will explain in detail how to set up and use the Retail Barcode Management app to achieve efficient and error-free product entry. You will learn the steps for configuring product barcodes and printing labels in the admin panel, and how this app can enhance overall sales efficiency. For more information on how to connect and use the scanner for quick checkout operations on the POS, please visit this article.
How the App Streamlines Your Operations
The Retail Barcode Management app is designed to simplify your retail operation processes through automation and batch management. The core value and functional highlights of this app are reflected in the following two aspects:
Operational Efficiency and Accuracy Improvement
- Lightning-Fast Checkout Experience: Enabled by accurate barcodes provided by the app, cashiers can identify products and add them to an order with a scanner in one second, significantly shortening customer wait times and greatly boosting checkout efficiency.
- Elimination of Human Error: The system automatically matches the barcode with the product information, preventing errors that occur during manual searching or SKU entry, thus ensuring the accuracy of inventory and sales records.
- Ease of Operation: Staff can complete product entry with a simple scan, which significantly lowers the learning curve for new employees.
Automated Barcode Management and Data Export
- Barcode Batch Automation Creation: Perfectly suited for products without standard packaging barcodes. You can use Custom Barcode Rules to batch generate and write barcode data for products, completely replacing the inefficient method of manual, one-by-one configuration.
- Automatic Management for New Products: You can set flexible generation rules, and the app will automatically update and write barcodes for newly added products, ensuring continuous data consistency across all items.
- Efficient Data Export: The app supports one-click export of all detailed fields for product SKUs and barcodes into an Excel file, allowing merchants to integrate with any external label creation or printing system.
- POS Scanning and Device Compatibility: The app supports adding barcodes to product variants in the Admin backend and enabling instant scan recognition on the POS terminal. The app is compatible with mainstream USB and Bluetooth barcode scanning devices on the market.
Using the Retail Barcode Management App
You can enable and start using the Retail Barcode Management app in two simple phases:
I. Installing the Retail Barcode Management App
- In SHOPLINE Admin, go to Apps > SHOPLINE App Store, search for and find the Retail Barcode Management app, and click Install.
- In the pop-up window, click Authorize and install to authorize the app.
- Once installed, click into the Retail Barcode Management app from the Apps list.
II. Setting Barcode Generation Rules
- In SHOPLINE Admin, click into the Retail Barcode Management app from the Apps list.
- To batch create barcodes and export data for label printing, the system will list all products and allow you to set the following generation rules for products without existing barcodes:
- Barcode prefix: You can choose no prefix or enter a custom prefix.
- Barcode length: Set the required number of digits for the barcode (between 5 and 18 digits).
- Once the settings are complete, click Confirm. The system will automatically create barcodes for eligible products based on your rules.