When setting up a product in WooCommerce you’ll be presented with a number of boxes to enter some data. If you’re new to eCommerce or retail in general, it’s likely the abbreviation “SKU” will have you wondering what is a SKU?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SKU isn’t a WooCommerce term, SKU is a “retail” term and there’s no such thing as a WooCommerce SKU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SKU Stands for Stock Keeping Unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But what does Stock Keeping Unit mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s basically a number, code, string of letters and numbers or something similar that represents that unique product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The same SKU CANNOT be used for two different products – it’s a unique code for each product in YOUR store. More on that below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unlike a globally recognised code like a UPC or EAN Barcode from someone like GS1<\/a> a SKU is to be used for YOUR purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That being said, these don’t need to be and probably shouldn’t be “descriptive” – they can just be a string of numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It doesn’t matter if you pick a SKU that already exists in someone else’s store – there’s no cross referenced database between your WooCommerce store’s SKUs and anyone else’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So don’t overthink this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n You could literally start with: PROD-00-01A<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s a decent SKU for the purposes of running your store and adding more products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PROD could be changed to something relevant to your store if you wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you sold fancy jewellery at a store called “Georgies Jewellery” you could change it up like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n GJ-00-01A<\/p>\n\n\n\n as in “Georgies Jewellery-00-01A”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Equally, you can be far less inventive and simply make your SKU:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 000001 for the first product<\/p>\n\n\n\n 000002 for the second product<\/p>\n\n\n\n and so on…<\/p>\n\n\n\n So if you were wondering what a SKU is in WooCommerce Product Settings I hope we’ve answered your query and provided you some ideas on how to come up with your own SKUs for your WooCommerce store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n sku in woocommerce<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is SKU in WooCommerce<\/p>\n\n\n\n woocommerce<\/span> sku<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When setting up a product in WooCommerce you’ll be presented with a number of boxes to enter some data. If you’re new to eCommerce or retail in general, it’s likely the abbreviation “SKU” will have you wondering what is a SKU? What Does SKU Mean in WooCommerce? SKU isn’t a WooCommerce term, SKU is a… Continue reading What is a SKU in WooCommerce?<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecommerce-stores","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurestatemedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurestatemedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurestatemedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurestatemedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurestatemedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurestatemedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurestatemedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurestatemedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurestatemedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is a SKU in WooCommerce ANSWERED – SKU Abbreviation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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