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.

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<h2>Integrate Your Store with Power Automate</h2>
Automate your way to bliss using Power Automate licensing that may already be included with your organization’s existing Microsoft licensing. Form the tightest possible integration between Teams, Dynamics 365, Business Central, Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations, Excel, or any other Microsoft service using Microsoft’s own automation solution.
Power Automate for WooCommerce is the easiest way to integrate with all of the 1,000+ services offered in Power Automate, including Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Excel, and more.
You can use this extension to automatically create products in your WooCommerce store from data in Dynamics 365, and automatically create a list of completed orders inside SharePoint or Excel. You can also use it to integrate a virtual agent (chatbot) inside Microsoft Teams and directly with your customer data in WooCommerce.
Our users find the triggers for orders and subscriptions to be most useful. They allow WooCommerce, through the Power Platform, to become an active part of their larger business processes, eliminating and simplifying steps manually taken.
Another very popular use case is to use an approval process when an order is refunded, which helps alert the team when actions need to happen.
Trigger flows for:
<ul>
<li>Customers</li>
<li>Coupons</li>
<li>Orders</li>
<li>Order notes</li>
<li>Products
<li>Subscriptions (if enabled)</li>
</ul>
Actions allow you to create, find, update, or delete any of the resources above, and you can extend the source code to support even more.
Actions allow you to create, find, update, or delete any of your coupons, customers, orders, order notes, products, and/or subscriptions.
Using Power Automate, you can easily integrate your WooCommerce store with enterprise-level systems like Dynamics 365. You can build PowerApps that integrate directly with your fulfillment staff. You can integrate WooCommerce with many other systems while taking advantage of the full Power Platform.
Through the ease of use of Power Automate’s no-code platform, these integrations are simple and easy for you or your administrators to understand, allowing you to update or modify them easily as you discover new ways to take your store to the next level.
Available actions:
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There is only one trigger, but it is configurable and very powerful:
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