Assigning UPCs to Products

Use UPC Codes Maintenance to assign a primary Universal Product Code (UPC) to a product record. In addition, you can do the following:

Assign secondary UPCs to the product record.
Edit existing UPCs assigned to the product record.
Change which UPC is the primary and which UPCs are secondary for the product record. Make this change when you choose to have a different vendor supply a generic product but want to retain the previous vendor's UPC.

Important: If your business maintains separate product records and you need to assign a UPC code to the same product at different branches, contact Eclipse Support. Support will activate the Enable Branch Specific UPCs control maintenance record at your site so that you can assign a UPC code to the same product at different branches.

To assign UPCs to a product:

From the Files menu, select Product to display the Product Maintenance screen.
Display the product record to which to assign UPCs.
Use the UPCs hot key to display the UPC Codes Maintenance screen.

The system populates the product description in the Desc field.

In the Primary UPC field, enter the product’s primary UPC. UPCs must be numeric.

Note: The system warns you if you enter a UPC that is already assigned to another product. You must enter a unique UPC to continue.

In the Secondary UPCs field, enter additional UPCs associated with the product.

Press Esc to save changes and exit the screen.

More Options from the UPC Codes Maintenance Screen

The UPC Codes Maintenance screen also offers these options:

Hot Key	Function
UD Maint	Displays the Price Updating ID Maint screen. Use this screen to assign user-defined UPCs to products.
Secondary	Sets the primary UPC to be a secondary UPC. The code in the Primary UPC field moves under the Secondary UPCs field. You can now enter a new primary UPC.
Set Primary	Sets a defined secondary code as the primary UPC. Select the secondary code and use the hot key. The system places the secondary code in the Primary UPC field, and moves the primary code to the Secondary UPCs field.