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Enabling serial number tracking
Enabling serial number tracking

Enable serial number tracking in Katana to manage individual items with unique identifiers.

Dayvid Lorbiecke avatar
Written by Dayvid Lorbiecke
Updated over 5 months ago

Katana offers serial number tracking at the item level, providing unique identifiers for individual products. Serial number tracking applies to all variants of the item and supports automatic generation based on a specified format, ensuring precise inventory control and enhanced traceability.

If you have the Full Traceability add-on, you'll notice that Item cards include the option to switch on/off serial number tracking at the item level (per product).

Note: Serial number tracking can only be enabled for finished products

Since serial number tracking can be set at the item level, this also affects all variants of an item. Enabling/disabling serial number tracking for an item will only affect that item.

Manually enabling product serial number tracking

  1. Navigate to the Items screen and select a (finished) product from the list.

    Items screen

  2. Enable Serial numbers.

    Enabling serial numbers on a product

    NOTE: Serial number tracking in Katana is only available with the Full Traceability add-on

  3. If you're manufacturing serial number traced products, you can automatically generate serial numbers based on a specified format.

    Customize option for serial numbers if you manufacture them

    1. {ORDER_NO} shows the MO identifier

    2. {SEQ_START} begins a sequence of numbers

    3. You can add any combination of numbers and letters

      Serial number formatting window

    Uncheck Automatically generate MO serial numbers to turn off the automatic generation of serial numbers.

  4. Serial tracking has been enabled for all variants of the item.


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