Hi everyone, this is Jacie with Finale and in this video I'll walk you through the receive learn function in the Finale barcode scanner app. This feature allows you to receive new products into Finale while also teaching the system to recognize their barcodes at the same time. Receive learn is especially useful if you're handling products for the very first time. Maybe your supplier or manufacturer has already put a barcode on the product packaging, but Finale doesn't know it yet. Instead of receiving the product and then going back later to link the barcode, receive learn allows you to do both in one step, saving time and avoiding duplicate work. Here's how to use receive learn. In Finale, we have a purchase order with two new to us items that our manufacturer has already barcoded. Let's learn the barcode as we receive the purchase order on the barcode scanner. In the barcode scanner app, go to 14 settings and verify that setting number three is set to yes. Back in the main menu, select receive and scan your purchase order ID. Here, we're going to select the sublo we are receiving our products into. And now we need to scan or type in the product ID. If you don't have a product ID that you can readily scan, you can print the print purchase order manifest with barcode directly from your finale screen. It provides the barcodes for you. Otherwise, you can type in the product ID. Now, scan the product's barcode
and enter the quantity that you are receiving. Once you select and confirm, Finale learns that barcode and associates it with that product. You now have the option to learn another barcode against this item, which is helpful if your manufacturer has different labels for the same product. If you are finished learning barcodes for that product, select enter. Continue receiving as normal.
And when you are done receiving your PO, click menu, exit to main menu, and sync your scanner. Syncing the barcode scanner allows the settings to apply to your Finale account. Now, if we click on the product and scroll all the way to the bottom, we can see that barcode is now associated with that product ID. Moving forward, if this barcode value is scanned, Finale will understand that it is tied to this product ID. And that's it. With receive learn, you can set up barcodes on the fly as new products arrive, so your team can start scanning them right away in receiving, picking, and packing. It's a fast and efficient way to keep your catalog and your inventory synced.
