How to use the plugin

To have barcodes or QR codes for your products, just go to YITH > Barcodes > Product Barcodes and start configuring the options available in this tab.

• Generate and apply barcodes to products: enable this option to enable barcodes or QR codes on products
• Code type: choose between Barcode or QR code
• Product barcode protocol: choose one of the available protocols (only available for barcodes). Available protocols:
  • EAN-13
  • EAN-8
  • UPC-A
  • STD 25
  • INT 25
  • CODE 39
  • CODE 93
  • CODE 128
  • Codabar
• Generate the barcode using:
  • The product ID
  • The product SKU
  • A custom field: you can choose any of the product custom fields

• Generate and apply barcodes: use this option to automatically generate barcodes or QR codes for all your products in one click. You can choose whether to include:
  • All products (also barcodes that already have a barcode) or
  • Only products without a barcode
• Enable manual barcode: enable this option so you can manually (re)generate the barcode from the product settings and/or enter a custom value. From here you can also delete the generated barcode.
  
• Automatically generate and apply barcodes on new products: enable this option, so all products created from now on will automatically be created with a barcode.
• Show barcodes in product page: choose whether to show the barcode on the product page on the frontend or not.
  
• Show product barcodes in order emails: choose whether to show the product barcode in the Order confirmation email
  

Variable Products

The plugin allows creating barcodes also for every product variations. You will find the barcode/QR box generator in every product variation.

Please, note: all the above settings will apply to both barcodes and QR codes.

To manage barcodes and QR codes on your orders, go to the plugin settings panel YITH > Barcodes > Order barcodes and configure all the necessary settings.

• Generate and apply barcodes on orders: enable this option to enable barcodes or QR codes on orders. From the order page you can also delete the generated barcode.
• Automatically generate and apply barcodes on new orders: enable this option to generate barcodes automatically as soon as the order is placed.
  
• Code type: choose between Barcode or QR code
• Order barcode protocol: choose one of the available protocols (only available for barcodes). Available protocols:
  • EAN-13
  • EAN-8
  • UPC-A
  • STD 25
  • INT 25
  • CODE 39
  • CODE 93
  • CODE 128
  • Codabar
• Generate the barcode using:
  • The order ID
  • The order number
  • A custom field: any of the order custom field.
• Show barcodes on order page: choose whether to show the order barcode/QR code on the order confirmation page on the frontend.
  
• Show order barcode in order email:
  • Never show order barcode in emails
  • Show only in emails sent after the order is set to ‘completed’
  • Show in all emails

Please, note: all the above settings will apply to both barcodes and QR codes.

You can insert the order barcode or QR code, when generated, in all the order emails or only in the one sent when the order goes to Completed status.

You will find the related options in the Product barcode and Order barcode settings.

Product barcode

This option allows you to show the barcode or QR code of all products included in the order in the order confirmation email. Enable it from YITH > Barcodes > Product Barcodes > Show product barcodes in order emails.

Order barcode

If you want to also show the order barcode or QR code, you can enable this option from YITH > Barcodes > Product Barcodes > Show order barcodes in order emails and choose between one of the following options:

To export all your product barcodes to a PDF file, we’ve added a dedicated tab in the plugin settings. Just go to YITH > Barcodes > Print Barcodes, where you can see the following:

• Show product image in printed list: choose whether to include the product image in the export list or not.
• Print a barcode list of:
  • All products
  • All products including variations

This is an example of an export including all products, variations included, with name and image.

• Print barcodes by product: with this specific option you can print the barcode of one product or variation only and you can also choose the quantity, so how many copies of the same barcode you need to have on the same file.

YITH Render Barcode

The shortcode [yith_render_barcode] allows you to display a barcode anywhere you wish on the page. You can set up the following attributes:

• id: enter the ID of the order/product/ticket/gift card to display a specific barcode.
• hide_if_empty (default: 1): this has to be used together with the ID attribute to make sure the shortcode box hidden if there is no barcode with the selected ID.
• protocol: it allows you to specify which protocol to use to display the barcode (default: EAN8).
• value: it allows you to specify the barcode number you want to display. This has to be used with the protocol parameter.
  Example: if you want to display a barcode with value 1234 on a specific place on your website, you can use this shortcode setup:

[yith_render_barcode protocol=EAN8 value=1234]

YITH Order Barcode

The shortcode [yith_order_barcode] allows you to view a section with which you can apply actions on orders.
You can configure this shortcode from YITH > Barcode > Shortcode tab in the plugin settings.

• Shortcode capability: this allows you to choose which capabilities are required to be able to use the information printed by this shortcode. Default to: manage_woocommerce, so that only admins and shop managers will be able to access to this information. You can use ‘all’ or any other capability to customize this option.
• Show Processing button: this allows you to add a button so that you can set the status of the rendered order to Processing in one click.
• Show Completed button: this allows you to add a button so that you can set the status of the rendered order to Completed in one click.
• Update an order status after scanning: choose here if you want to automatically perform a specific action whenever an order status is scanned:
  • Don’t update the order status
  • Process the order automatically
  • Complete the order automatically

YITH Product Barcode

With this shortcode, you will be able to show the product barcode and automatically or manually update the stock quantity and add it to the cart. Go to YITH > Barcodes > Shortcode > Product shortcode to configure the shortcode options.

• Shortcode capability: this allows you to choose which capabilities are required to be able to use the information printed by this shortcode. Default to: manage_woocommerce, so that only admins and shop managers will be able to access to this information. You can use ‘all’ or any other capability to customize this option.
• Show Stock buttons: this allows you to add two buttons to let you increase or decrease the stock quantity of the product displayed.
• Stock behavior on product scan: choose here if you want to automatically perform a specific action whenever a product barcode is scanned:
  • Don’t update the stock
  • Decrease the product stock automatically
  • Increase the product stock automatically

Show additional buttons in the shortcode area

There is a default action (‘search’) that can be performed on products but it’s possible to add many buttons, one for every additional actions, and allow third-party plugins to manage their custom actions.

The other button, Custom action (or more buttons if you prefer) will only work if you write a custom code associated with it, using “custom action”.

[yith_product_barcode actions="search, increase stock, decrease stock, custom action"]

The result will be: