How to Add Product SKU In WooCommerce

How to Add Product SKU in WooCommerceAre you looking for a way to add SKU to products in your store? In this post, I guide you on how to add Product SKU in WooCommerce. Using stock keeping units, also known as SKUs in your store is very important. They can help you to distinguish items from each other in your online store

It might seem unnecessary because some store owners are not familiar with item numbers.

It is worth mentioning that filling in the SKU number field is not obligatory in WooCommerce. However, no matter the size of your store or what you sell, you should absolutely be using SKUs.

Some repeat customers use SKUs to find and purchase products faster. It is also convenient for mobile shoppers to copy and paste from those tiny keyboards.

If you want to sell your products to another store via wholesale, we recommend that you use product SKUs. This is because Multi-vendor stores rely on item numbers to tell their products apart.

How to Add Product SKU in WooCommerce

In this brief tutorial, we will show you how to add product SKUs. We will be using the built-in option to add them to products.

They will help to simplify accounting and searching for products in your store.

Let us see how you can achieve this.

Steps to Add Product SKU in WooCommerce

Here are the steps you need to follow:

  1. The first step is to log in to your WordPress Dashboard as an admin.
  2. From the Dashboard, go to Products > All Products. This allows you to view the list of all the products existing on your website.
  3. Hover over the product thumbnail area of the product that you want to add an SKU number and click on Edit.edit product
  4. Scroll down to the Product Data section, and click on the Inventory tab.
  5. Add the SKU number in the SKU field, as shown below:add sku
  6. Once you are done, save your changes. Now you have added the SKU number to one of the products.

Alternatively, if you have many products in your store, you can use a plugin to add the SKU. It optimizes the entire process.

You can use a plugin like Product SKU Generator, which allows you to automatically generate item numbers for your products.

Here are some of the features it offers:

  • Generating SKUs from URL (slug) or ID values;
  • Use in numbers of product variations the parent SKU, attributes, or ID.

Conclusion

By now, you should be able to add SKUs to any product in your store. We recommend creating an efficient way to create SKUs to avoid repetition.

This will allow you to sell your products to other stores.

They will also help you to identify items that have the same title but a different category.

You can also use a plugin if you have multiple products.

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