Label Printing: Scan and Print Barcode Labels

@FM thanks for your response! After reading through this forum, I contacted Shopkeep to see if their system is integrated for barcode printing... and it is! And it's cheaper than Square, both for the monthly fee ($49/mo if you pay for a year) and for credit card processing fees (1.95%). So I'm actually going to go with them instead, seems far superior to Square. But I appreciate your quick response and best of luck with your business!

@radishpetaluma We almost went with Shopkeep, primarily because of the barcode issue. But we decided against it because they aren't chip-compliant which makes us more at risk / not covered for fraud. If you accept a payment from a customer who has a chip card, but you run it as a non-chip card (which you have to do on Shopkeep), then the credit card company doesn't have the same protections for you. I think that was the main issue we had with ShopKeep, also their salespeople were annoying. 😛 

@radishpetaluma Just looked at my decision notes to make sure I was rememberint it correctly: Shopkeep isn't EMV-compliant and didn't have a date when they would be. Also I didn't want to have to deal with finding our own CC processor. Those were the main two deciding factors for us when we were comparing Square/Shopkeep. Just our experience, if that helps. 

I'm having the same issue! Please help me... I can't get my barcode scanner to sync with the info I spent days uploading into my iPad!!

I finally got it to work. We USB scanner not sure which one you have, but every time I scanned barcode I got error sound.

 I made sku on square up under each item. Then went to inventory management on squareup.com clicked print labels. We have dymo printer so I selected that under label type. Then the location. Then typed in which product I wanted to print. Then create label. My dymo printer printed label. 

Then hen where my problem was. I have USB symbol scanner. It came with sheet of barcodes. On that sheet under USB- I had to scan barcode *usb keyboard (hid). 

Then in when I scanned my barcodes I printed with dymo printer it worked!!!!!! 

I hope this helps! 

So when does android get this?

Is it possible to have Square auto-generate my SKU numbers? I'm just using numbers in order (1, 2, 3, etc) and so have to keep track of the highest number for when I add new products. Surely there must be an option to have Square auto-generate/increment SKU numbers for me?

Square doesn't do this but you can do this in a spreadsheet and then upload the new items.

That's sort of what we're doing but this seems like a surprising ommission that I've never encountered before on any other POS system.

Yes, I just purchase Dymo 450 turbo and it worked perfectly running with the Square POS software.  I was able to print off over 200 barcodes with the discription and sku numbers in a mater of 2 or 3 minutes.