WebCommerce Glossary -- SKU

(This page is an entry in the WebCommerce Glossary.)

SKU stands for Stock Keeping Unit and is a number associated with a product for inventory purposes. WebCommerce uses this number to identify an individual product. Because of this, each product must have a SKU, and each SKU must be unique.

If your products do not normally have a SKU, ISBN, or part number, you can invent your own arbitrary numbering system. The important thing is that you give WebCommerce unique numbers that it can use to reference each product.

SKUs for products are defined in the products section of the Back Office.