Our UPC Scanner takes UPCs, ASINs, and EANs. Other SKUs will yield no results. A good way to tell what type of SKU you have is by their length. The following are the lengths of each of our compatible SKUs:
Additionally, none of these SKU formats should include punctuation. If your SKU has periods (“.”), slashes (“/”), or any other kind of symbol, we won’t have anything for it. Your SKUs should be limited to letters and numbers.
If you’re not seeing results, the first thing you should do is look at your SKU formats.
“I’m only seeing data under Product Details”
All we need to be able to scan the SKU is the SKU itself. However, we can provide more data if we have the Selling Price and the Product Cost. These are things that, when provided by you, can lead to us calculating metrics like ROI, fees, and other margins.
If you want to see more of that information, be sure to add the Product Cost and Selling price to your file that you scan. Deleting unnecessary columns besides these three will also help the scanner know which columns to take data from.
Other Issues:
Make sure that your columns are labeled and selected correctly. If there are column headers with your file, then you can choose which columns are used for which data points, so make sure that they are lined up correctly.
Universal Product Codes (or UPCs) are the North American format for product identification. These have 12 digits, and are found most commonly in the United States and Canada.
European Article Numbers (EANs) are used in other parts of the world, such as Europe and Asia. These are 13 digits.
Many wholesale and arbitrage focused sellers will come across large catalogs of products. This could be several thousand. It’s nearly impossible to comb these over one by one. Even more impossible if you have to do this regularly.
What if there was a tool that did this for you? At scale? With all the data points you could want?
Enter UPC Scanner.
Whether it’s UPC, EAN or ASIN lists that you’re matching. You can copy and past or drag and drop your file into SmartScout. This works for CSV of Excel files.
Give your scan a name and then let SmartScout do its work. If you don’t enter a Selling price that you want to sell it at (MAP?), then you can default let it use the Buy Box price.
The results page can be filters and exported so you have your top products.
There’s several column we recommend you use here:
SmartScout was founded by BuyBoxer, one of the largest Amazon third party sellers in the nation. It was this UPC scanner that made the large catalog not only possible, but easy.
