Bar Codes

A bar code consists of black vertical bars and white spaces that vary in width that can be read by a bar code scanner. Bar codes can also contain other identifiers like letters, characters and numbers. In general, a bar code is a unique and universal identifier. A bar code scanner captures and decodes the information contained by a bar code.

The role of barcoding in the modern world cannot be underestimated. These days bar codes are everywhere. They can be used not only for household items that come from supermarkets or retail stores, but also in law firms, doctors offices, post offices, security applications and countless others.

The reason why barcoding became such an essential tool is that it brings a lot of benefits to any business. Barcoding allows to run the business more accurately, automate the processes, make them more efficient and error free, it can ensure the growth of your business in general. 

Bar codes are also extensively used in online stores and barcoding becomes increasingly important in the contemporary ecommerce world. In Sana we provide the Bluetooth barcode scanner and the Camera barcode scanner content elements. Using the Bluetooth barcode scanner and the Camera barcode scanner content elements, you can scan the product bar codes and quickly add them to the shopping cart. If you have a high volume of sales, the process of adding products to the shopping cart manually can be prohibitively time-consuming. A bar code scanner can save you a significant amount of time if your products have a bar code.

All products and product variants must have correct bar codes added to them in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Only if a product has the correct bar code in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, it will be possible to add it to the shopping cart by scanning the bar code, otherwise the scanned product will not be recognized.

Add a Bar Code to an Item in Microsoft Dynamics NAV

In Microsoft Dynamics NAV the Cross References feature is used to add bar codes to the items.

For more information about Cross References, refer to the official Microsoft Dynamics NAV documentation Use Item References.

In Microsoft Dynamics NAV click: Sales & Marketing > Inventory & Pricing > Items. Open the necessary item card and click: Related Information > Item > Cross References.

Sana Commerce Cloud supports multiple bar codes per item. You can create multiple bar codes for different units of measure added to items and item variants. If you have multiple bar codes for the same item and different units of measure, Sana will retrieve all of them. In this way a customer in the webshop can scan a bar code and easily add an item to the shopping cart already in the correct unit of measure.

In the Cross-Reference Type field, select the type Bar Code, and in the Cross-Reference No. field, enter the bar code value. Also, specify the bar code description. If an item has variants and units of measure, you can specify bar codes for each variant and unit of measure separately.