Unique Product Identifiers

Unique Product Identfiers

For each of your product pages that you would like to syndicate an Eyekandy Syndication Product we need to match our content (QR code, models, Avatars) on our servers to return to your product page. We do this by matching the Unique Product Identifier that you pass in with the reference on our side.

This is why for product-level syndication one of the following identifiers is mandatory. If we don’t find a match, we fail silently and the user and the page is none the wiser.

SKU (definition)

In the field of inventory management, a stock keeping unit is a distinct type of item for sale, such as a product or service, and all attributes associated with the item type that distinguish it from other item types. For a product, these attributes can include manufacturer, description, material, size, color, packaging, and warranty terms. When a business takes inventory of its stock, it counts the quantity it has of each SKU.

EAN (definition)

The International Article Number (also known as European Article Number or EAN) is a standard describing a barcode symbology and numbering system used in global trade to identify a specific retail product type, in a specific packaging configuration, from a specific manufacturer. The standard has been subsumed in the Global Trade Item Number standard from the GS1 organization; the same numbers can be referred to as GTINs and can be encoded in other barcode symbologies defined by GS1. EAN barcodes are used worldwide for lookup at retail point of sale, but can also be used as numbers for other purposes such as wholesale ordering or accounting.

MPN (definition)

MPN stands for Manufacturer Part Number. It is a unique number that is issued by manufacturers to identify individual products. Normally, the MPN of a product is a series of numbers and letters.You can see examples of MPNs on the barcodes of products as manufacturers print MPNs and the barcode.