Add products by scanning

Build the catalog from a supplier product sheet instead of typing it.

Catalog → Products → Scan takes a photo or PDF of a supplier product sheet or price list and reads the items off it, so you can add many products at once.

1. Upload the sheet

   A photo or a PDF. Multi-page PDFs are fine.

2. Start OCR Processing

   The document is read and the products are listed for you.

3. Review every line

   Each line shows how confident PRODUCT_NAME is in what it read — see reading the colours. Lines already Matched by UPC point at products you have; the rest offer New Product.

4. Set a price

   New products are prefilled from cost plus the margin on the category you choose. If the category has no margin configured, you are told so and asked to set a price.

5. Apply

   The products you confirmed are created.

Scanning a product sheet only creates or updates products. It does not buy anything and it does not change your stock — for that, scan a purchase invoice.

Scanning a barcode instead

Anywhere you see the barcode scanner, you can use your computer’s camera — or your phone, via the Store Ops app — to pull up a product by its barcode instead of searching for it. Recognised barcodes are UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-13, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 39, Codabar and ITF-14.