A Stock Keeping Unit — or SKU (pronounced “skew”) — is a vital tool for businesses of all sizes. SKUs help manage inventory accurately, ensuring that what you think you have in stock is what you actually have.
Why Do We Use SKUs?
At Inventoree.io, SKUs play a key role in connecting products across all your integrated platforms — whether it’s eBay, Shopify, or any others we support now or in the future.
SKUs also help keep your inventory in sync with the original platform where a product was listed. If you’ve used our Shopify importer, we import your ebay products to shopify and link them without needing SKUs. However, we still strongly recommend manually adding SKUs if they’re missing.
Why? Because platforms like eBay impose certain limits. For example, if your product has multiple variations but no SKUs, we can only update that listing up to 250 times per day. So, if you receive 251 orders in one day, your eBay inventory won’t reflect that final sale.
By assigning SKUs to your products, you eliminate this restriction — allowing us to update your inventory in real time, no matter how many sales you make.
How does it work?
On the SKU generator page in your settings, you can set prefix, suffix and a delimiter, this is all optional. You can also choose to generate skus for all new products with empty SKUs when you import products.
Once saved, on the inventory page, you can select the products you would like to generate SKUs for and click generate.
Note: SKUs are only generated for products with missing/empty SKUs as to not affect existing product SKUs
This will generate a 12 character SKU for your product and if the product has variants we’ll add a count at the end.
e.g with ’_’ Delimiter:
Product: Mens White T-Shirt
Product Variants:
- Size Small: ASACML12FHKS_1
- Size Medium: ASACML12FHKS_2
- Size Large: ASACML12FHKS_3
- Size X-Large: ASACML12FHKS_4
- Size XX-Large: ASACML12FHKS_5