Efficiently managing SKUs is crucial for proper inventory management and product identification when selling across different channels (Amazon, eBay, Etsy, etc). Adding SKUs manually by going through each product page would take ages if you have a large catalog. With Bulk SKU Generator you can automate your SKU creation process for your new and existing products.
Create multiple rules to set different SKUs for different products and categories using the inbuilt variables like product ID, name, slug, attributes, and more. Option to add new, replace, or set additional SKUs. The detailed features of this extension follow.
<h2>Features List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Create unique SKUs for products and variations</li>
<li>Ability to add new, set additional, or replace existing SKUs</li>
<li>Apply SKUs to specific products, category, and attributes</li>
<li>Create multiple rules to add different SKUs for different products</li>
<li>Customize SKU format by adding custom text anywhere in SKU along with variables,
<ul>
<li>Product id</li>
<li>Product slug</li>
<li>Product name</li>
<li>Parent category name</li>
<li>Child category name</li>
<li>Product tag</li>
<li>SKU number</li>
<li>Product attribute</li>
<li>Product term</li>
<li>Variation name</li>
<li>Variation ID</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Ability to set different SKU format for product and variations</li>
<li>Add a certain length for generated SKUs to maintain consistency</li>
<li>Option to automate SKU updates for new products</li>
<li>Customize cronjob interval and view SKUs creation progress</li>
<li>Option to add placeholders for empty variables</li>
<li>Allow customers to search by SKU and automatically include SKUs in order emails</li>
</ul>
<h2>Rule based management</h2>
Create multiple global rules to generate different SKUs for different products. Rule based management offers a better control over how the SKUs should be generated for different types of products.
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<h2>Conditional SKUs</h2>
You can conditionally add SKUs to your products using following rule types,
<ul>
<li>Replace SKUs 
Replace your existing SKU with a new one. If there is no SKU to replace, the extension won’t add a new SKU.</li>
<li>Additional SKUs 
This rule type will assign an additional SKU to products, regardless of whether they already have an SKU or not.</li>
<li>Product with no SKUs 
Add SKUs to products with no SKU only. If the SKU is already present in any of the selected products, the rule will not add an SKU for that product.</li>
</ul>
Apply rule to future products
Automate the SKUs generation for upcoming products added to your store. When this feature is enabled, the extension will generate SKU according to your rule settings.
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<h2>Customize SKU length for consistency</h2>
Define the maximum length for SKUs generation to ensure that your product codes stay within a specific character range. This customization provides flexibility, allowing you to control the length of SKUs according to your store’s preferences.
<h2>Flexible product SKU format options</h2>
The SKU format can be easily personalized by adding any custom text anywhere in the field along with the predefined variables. The variable values are replaced dynamically to generate SKUs that uniquely identify each product and variation, making inventory management more efficient. The pre-defined variables includes,
<ul>
<li>Product id</li>
<li>Product slug (Product URL)</li>
<li>Product name</li>
<li>Parent category name</li>
<li>Child category name</li>
<li>Product tag</li>
<li>SKU number</li>
<li>Product attribute</li>
<li>Product term</li>
<li>Variation name</li>
<li>Variation ID</li>
</ul>
You can add different SKU formats for products and variations as per your business needs.
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<h2>Apply SKUs to all or specific products</h2>
When creating a new rule for SKU generation, you can choose to apply it to all products or specific products. You can specify individual products or select them by their category or attribute.
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<h2>General Options:</h2>
Using the general settings, you can customize following options,
<ul>
<li>Enable search by SKU: Allow your customers to search your catalog by product SKU.</li>
<li>Include SKU in emails: Automatically include SKU number in customer order emails.</li>
<li>Empty variables placeholder: You can skip or add custom placeholders for empty variables while generating SKUs. Leaving these fields empty the extension won’t add anything in the SKUs if the variable values are empty.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Conjob and progress view:</h2>
The extension uses cron jobs to schedule SKU generation in phases to avoid overloading the server. You can customize the cronjob time as per your needs. You can view all active rules that are currently being applied along with the product list where the SKU has been added.
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Bulk SKU Generator

Automatically generate SKUs in bulk for multiple products, including variations. Option to add new or replace existing SKU. Format SKU using multiple variables like product ID, slug, attribute, tag, category, and more.

SET UP A CONNECTION BETWEEN WOOCOMMERCE STORE AND ZOHO BOOKS AND ZOHO INVENTORY TO SEAMLESSLY SYNCHRONIZE DATA AND MANAGE IT WITH EASE
Zoho Books & Inventory Integration allows you to connect your store to Zoho Books and Inventory and send your specified data to modules for management. By default, three WooCommerce objects — products, contacts, and invoices — are available for data synchronization. You can create custom objects too. This plugin works hand in glove with the Zoho Books solution. You can create feeds to set rules for collecting data with different objects and organizing Zoho Books modules. 
On Top of that, our extension offers bulk, one-click, and manual syncs to send your WooCommerce data to Zoho Books and Inventory quickly and easily.
<blockquote>Note: The plugin accommodates either individual software connections or a combination of both, with identical configuration for Zoho Books and Inventory integration. </blockquote>
<h2>Features of Zoho Books & Inventory Integration</h2>
<h3>1. Show Discounts Details</h3>
WooCommerce Books and Inventory plugin allows you to easily sync discount amount in your orders, ensuring that any applied discounts are accurately reflected in your invoices.  
 
Make sure to enable Discounts at Transactional Level from Settings > Preferences > General in your Zoho Books Dashboard.
<h3>2. Sync Product Tags</h3>
With the Zoho Books and Inventory integration, you have complete flexibility to sync anything you need, including product tags. You can easily sync them to any field of your choice, making management more convenient and efficient.
<h3>3. Sync Tax and Shipping Tax Details</h3>
WooCommerce Books and Inventory lets you easily sync both shipping tax, shipping charges/cost details and order tax, whether it’s single or multiple taxes, making overall tax and shipping management simple and accurate. 
Note: This feature is currently available only for US data centers, with support for other countries coming soon.
<h3>4. Two-Way Sync for Products Stock</h3>
This feature enables seamless synchronization of product stock quantities between Zoho and WooCommerce. Any changes in a product’s stock level in Zoho are automatically updated and reflected in your WooCommerce store. 

<h3>5. Sync Coupon Details</h3>
WooCommerce Zoho Books and Inventory now allows you to sync coupon details, including the Coupon Code, Amount, and Type used by customers during checkout. This feature helps you keep your accounting and inventory up-to-date in real-time, making it easier to track discounts and understand the success of your promotions.
<h3>6. Sync Order Notes by Users</h3>
WooCommerce Zoho Books and Inventory Offers feature to sync order notes that are mentioned by customers while placing orders. This ensures all essential details are in one place, so businesses can deliver better service without the need for manual input.
<h3>7. Sync User Browser info and IP address</h3>
Zoho Books & Inventory allows you to synchronize users’ IP addresses and browser information. This feature enhances tracking and segmentation, enabling you to develop more personalized strategies.
<h3>8. Automatic Stock Adjustment Upon Order Placement</h3>
WooCommerce Zoho Books & Inventory gives you the option to automatically create stock adjustments when an order is placed, when a user places an order the stock is automatically adjusted in your Zoho inventory. This smooth integration ensures that your Zoho inventory is instantly updated, simplifying inventory management and reducing the risk of stock discrepancies.
<h3>9. Order Status Sync From WooCommerce</h3>
The WooCommerce Zoho Books and Zoho Inventory plugins offer the capability to automatically synchronize your order status when it changes on your WooCommerce Store. This feature ensures smooth order management and improves operational efficiency.
<h3>10. Connect Both with One Click </h3>
You can Connect WooCommerce with Zoho Books & Inventory simultaneously by Selecting the Both option While Connecting. This can save time and enhance workflow automation.
For example, when you create a simple product, all its details will be synchronized with both the Zoho books and inventory, while generating logs for both simultaneously.
<h3>11. Data pipelines – Create Feeds to Sync WooCommerce Data</h3>
Zoho Books and Zoho Inventory plugins come with feeds that allow you to define data collection and synchronization rules. And according to those rules data is synced over to both software platforms. 
Essentially, feeds are data pipelines that continuously transfer data from WooCommerce to Zoho Books, establishing real-time synchronization to keep the modules up-to-date.
By default, three feeds sync the data of these WooCommerce objects.
<ul>
<li>Contacts</li>
<li>Invoices</li>
<li>Items</li>
</ul>
<h4>Setup specifics</h4>
<ul>
<li>In addition to the default feeds, you can also create custom feeds to sync data for other objects, such as sales, orders, quotes, and more.</li>
<li>When you set up the extension for the first time, you must disable the auto-generated number for invoices and sales orders in Zoho Books and Zoho Inventory.</li>
<li>If you want to sync data separately in Zoho Books and Zoho Inventory, then join both platforms from different organizations otherwise it will integrate both Zoho Books and Zoho Inventory simultaneously.</li>
</ul>
<h3>12. Tailor your data feeds</h3>
Zoho Books Integration allows you to customize your feeds using the following options: 
Select object: Select the type of Zoho Books and Inventory object you want to sync.
Map fields: Associate WooCommerce fields with Zoho Books or Zoho Inventory fields to sync data.
Add a new field: the extension allows you to add a new field to your feed and configure field type and value.
<ul>
<li>Primary field: select a field that will uniquely identify each record in the table (Primary Key).</li>
<li>Select event: choose the event that will trigger data synchronization.</li>
<li>Sync variable products: when you create a new variation of a product, the parent product will also be synced with the Zoho Books (for Items feed only).</li>
<li>Conditional filters: set conditions that must be met for data synchronization to occur.</li>
</ul>
<h3>13. Sync your historical data to keep Zoho Books Up-To-Date </h3>
With Integration With Zoho Books & Inventory, you can synchronize all your existing (historical) data for different WooCommerce objects. It has two methods for manual synchronization: Bulk Data sync and One-Click sync.
<ul>
<li>One-Click sync: Manually sync freshly added data or data that failed to sync in the previous process.</li>
<li>Bulk Data sync: Perform manual syncing of all new or failed WooCommerce object data.</li>
</ul>
<h3>14. Products Association From Zoho To WooCommerce</h3>
This feature is especially useful when you face syncing issues. For example, if your products are already synced to Zoho from a third-party site like Etsy, and now you’ve started using WooCommerce, you also sync them in Woocommerce from Etsy. This way, the products may not link correctly between Zoho and WooCommerce. This mismatch often causes errors. With this feature, you can avoid such problems by associating products in three easy ways: using SKU, Product ID, or Product name.
<h3>15. Use logs to review Data sync information</h3>
All the details regarding your successful and failed data syncs are recorded in the form of logs. You can filter these automatically generated logs as “All” or for “Errors.” You can also schedule their deletion after a set number of days.
<blockquote>Note: By default, logging is enabled. You can disable it if you want. </blockquote>
The log table displays the following details: Woo Object, Woo Object ID, WooCommerce Zoho Object, Zoho Books / Inventory Object ID, and more. You can clear the logs in one go or export the complete list using the download button. To view the logs in Zoho Books and Zoho Inventory, click on the Object ID. 
<h3>16. Filter Logs Details</h3>
WooCommerce Books and inventory plugin has the option to filter your logs, you can filter them by Default Invoice Feeds, Default Contacts Feed, and Default Item Feeds.
<h3>17. Custom Time For Cron Synchronization</h3>
Along with the default cron synchronization, you also have the option to set a custom time for cron synchronization. To make this option work, background synchronization must be active. This can be particularly helpful in reducing unnecessary frequent synchronization and optimizing resource usage.
<h3>18. Sync data instantly And Never Miss A Beat</h3>
When the instant sync feature is enabled, it synchronizes your WooCommerce data to Zoho Books as soon as the specified event for a feed occurs.
<h3>19. Enable Auto-Sync in the background</h3>
You can use the background syncing feature to sync your existing data to Zoho Books and Zoho Inventory every 5 minutes. This helps you reduce your dependency on manual syncing methods and makes the process smoother.
<h3>20. Automatically delete logs</h3>
Set the number of days after which the log will be automatically deleted. This is crucial for clearing up space as eventually, piled-up logs will unnecessarily load your Zoho Books Inventory Integration.
<h3>21. Wipe Data On Disconnect</h3>
You can enable the Zoho Books Inventory integration Plugin to delete all the synchronization data of your WooCommerce site upon disconnection and free up the space.
<h3>22. Zoho Integration Dashboard: Your Quick Glance at Key Data</h3>
The Dashboard allows you to monitor the key points of your Zoho Books Integration easily. You can check the Zoho Books Connection Status and Access Token Expiry. Plus, you can renew your token in a single click. 
Moreover, you can also see the number of synced Contacts, Items, and Orders and assess the performance of your feeds.
<h3>Zoho Books and Inventory Integrated With</h3>
WooCommerce HPOS 
Integration with Zoho Books and Inventory is compatible with WooCommerce High Performance Order Storage (HPOS) which is an easy-to-understand solid database structure that uses WooCommerce CRUD design, allowing you to store order data in custom order tables to easily handle Instant and bulk orders and ensure the smooth workflow of your WooCommerce store.
<h3>Why Should You Use Zoho Books & Inventory WooCommerce Integration?</h3>
<ul>
<li>The Zoho Books WooCommerce integration is a useful solution for managing your online store. It offers a centralized management system to track and organize your WooCommerce data.</li>
<li>The customization objects make this Zoho Books Integration a perfect fit, as you can tailor the data collection to suit the unique needs of your eCommerce business.</li>
<li>It is a one-stop solution to streamline every vital aspect of your business, such as invoices, billing, payments, project management, and more. </li>
</ul>
<h2>Benefits</h2>
<ul>
<li>Simple setup: Integration With Zoho Books & Inventory has a simple setup process. Install the extension on your WooCommerce store and connect it to Zoho Books.</li>
<li>Fast and seamless data sync: You can sync all your WooCommerce data to Zoho Books automatically or manually. The synchronization of new and failed data can be done with a single click.</li>
<li>Saves time: Synchronization with Integration With Zoho Books & Inventory creates a detailed log report, helping you view successful and failed syncs and find errors to fix.</li>
<li>Control your data synchronization: The Integration With Zoho Books & Inventory extension lets you map fields, set trigger events, apply conditions for data filtration, and more. It gives you complete control over data syncing.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Learn more</h3>
Visit <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/integration-with-zoho-books-inventory/">Integration With Zoho Books & Inventory’s </a>documentation to learn more about the features and details of the extension. If you need support or have questions, kindly <a href="https://woocommerce.com/my-account/create-a-ticket/">submit your query</a>.

Integration with Zoho Books & Inventory

Seamlessly synchronize your Woo store’s data with Zoho Books and Zoho Inventory.

Bulk SKU Generator vs Integration with Zoho Books & Inventory