Consistent SKUs across every product, generated automatically.

Why inconsistent SKUs cause problems

When product codes are assigned manually — often by whoever happens to be adding the product that day — they quickly become inconsistent. Some codes are descriptive, some are sequential numbers, some are abbreviations that only make sense to the person who created them. When you have hundreds of SKUs, searching for the right one during order processing or warehouse picking becomes genuinely slow.

Nexlymate's SKU generator enforces a consistent format across your entire catalog, regardless of who adds the product.

How it works

You define a SKU format using a combination of prefixes, category codes, sequential numbers, and attribute codes. For example: APP-TSH-M-001 for Apparel, T-Shirt, Medium, first SKU in that group. Nexlymate applies this format automatically when you create a new product or variant, generating the next sequential code without you having to think about it.

• Define your SKU format once using configurable rules — prefix, category, attributes, sequence
• All new products are automatically assigned a SKU matching your format
• Variant SKUs are generated per variant — each size, colour, or attribute combination gets its own unique code
• Duplicate SKU prevention — the system will not allow two products to share a code
• Existing products can be re-coded to the new format in bulk if you need to standardise a legacy catalog
• Generated SKUs can be used directly for barcode labels and warehouse scanning

Connection to barcode scanning

Because Nexlymate's SKU generator creates consistent codes, those codes can be directly encoded into barcode labels. Your warehouse can use one barcode format across every product, connected to the same SKU that appears in orders and reports. Consistency from catalog management through to warehouse operations.

Benefits at scale

When your catalog grows to 500 or 1,000 products, the value of consistent SKUs compounds. Searching for a product by its structured code is instant. Grouping products by category code in reports is automatic. Training a new warehouse team member on how to identify products by code is simple when the code itself is descriptive rather than arbitrary.