Occassionally manufacturers will alter or update an items barcode for their own reasons. Businesses are placed in a strange situation where although the product is largely the same (size, color, volume, formula) but the packaging has been altered so that the barcode is different or the name of the product is slightly different.

Remaining stock needs scannability with the old barcode, but new stock needs the new barcode. Having the ability to have both scans register as the same product would make the transition seamless for staff requiring only input of this into the product details if it were possible.

Currently our workaround is to create a new product as a duplicate but with the new barcode, but this causes reporting errors as this skews that it is a different product entirely. If we changed the barcode only at the time that we finally only have new versions left, it requires immediate managerial intervention that probably would lead to times when the new item is not scannable waiting for database correction.