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To assign serial numbers to each unit of the specified quantity of the product, in any of the listed types of documents, you need to click in the Serial number column on the Inventory tab of a document. This opens the following dialog box (the same for all types of documents).
The Serial Numbers (assignment) dialog box
You can type each serial number using the alphabetic-numeric mask, or click Generate to create the serial numbers automatically as successive integers.
Also, you can generate barcodes for all units by clicking the Generate Barcode button. If a printer is connected to the the system, you can print all the generated barcodes.
Once serial numbers are listed created for the specified quantity of the item, click Select on the top of the dialog box to register the serial numbers and close the dialog box.
Note. If you are going to use serial numbers on attached to your products, consider creating durable and readable labels for each unit of the items with serial numbers or barcodes easily readable by barcode scanners.
Using serial numbers
If the Control Stock Balances by Serial Number option is selected on the Administration > Settings > Purchasing and Warehouses form, you need to enter the particular serial number for each unit of the serialized items for each their movement (sale, inventory transfer).
To specify serial numbers for the specified quantity of the serialized item, you need to click in the Serial Numbers column. This opens the Serial Numbers dialog box.
In this dialog box, you can view the serial numbers of the available units of the specified item and select which ones you want to pick for the document.
The Serial Numbers (usage) dialog box
The left pane shows the list of warehouses with serial numbers for quantities of the item which are available in these warehouses.
The right pane shows the picked serial numbers.
Click the node to the left of the warehouse to open the list of serial numbers for the units available in this warehouse.
You can use the Right ( 
) button to pick particular serial numbers for the document and move them to the right pane.
You can use the Left ( 
) button to return some of the serial numbers to the left pane, back to the list of serial numbers available for selection.
The Quantity in Document and Entered Serial Numbers counters show you if you selected the required quantity of serial numbers for the document. The number of Entered Serial Numbers will be shown in red font if it is not equal to the number of serial numbers required in the document.
Once all the required quantity is selected, click Select to close the dialog box and use the serial numbers in the document.
With each inventory transaction, such as inventory transfer, invoice, goods delivery note, inventory receipt, or write off, the inventory records of the serialized item are updated.
Viewing details on serialized items
To view various details on stock of the items with serial numbers, use reports in the Warehouse module.
You can view all the serial numbers assigned to a particular serialized item; for this, open the master record of the serialized item, click the link on the top of the form: More Actions > Serial Numbers. The list with all the assigned serial numbers will be appear.
The list of serial numbers assigned to serialized item
Click any line to view transactions in which this unit was involved.
Transactions associated with the serial number
If you need to know where the units with particular serial numbers are stocked, you can use the Serial Number Balances (by Warehouse) report that lists available units of the serialized items in each warehouse.If
The list of item serial numbers by entity's base unit
Similarly, if you need to know which units of serialized items were purchased from which supplierstransferred to other companies for consignment sales, processing, or temporary storage, use the Warehouses > Reports of Warehouses > Serial Number Balances (by Company) report that lists all the serialized items with assigned serial numbers by supplier company..
The list of item serial numbers transferred to other companies
To trace a particular serial number and view the documents in which it was listed, use the Purchasing > Reports of Purchasing > Serial Number Search report (the same report is located in the Sales > Reports of Sales).
The result of serial number search for a particular item