# Receiving Goods via Barcode Scan

### Best Practice

Filter the Goods In screen as normal, to the Store and Supplier of your choice. Additionally, filter to a particular Purchase Order or Stock Transfer as required.

Using a barcode scanner, scan each item individually; each successfully scanned item will increment the 'qty to receive' by one.

#### What do do if your items have no barcode

This is not uncommon; Suppliers do not always provide barcodes.

Using the Action buttons on the Goods In screen, you can pre-print labels for items that you are about to receive.

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Apply these labels to your items, and then scan them to increment the count.

<p class="callout info">This will have the benefit of double checking your received goods; you have twenty items to receive, and print twenty labels. When you apply the labels to the products, you have one left over; it is immediately clear that you are missing an item.</p>

#### What do do if your items have a different barcode

In IXO Commerce, it is possible for a single item to have multiple barcodes.

Manage this via the [Inventory](https://bookstack.iconography.co.uk/books/categories/page/inventory "Inventory") tab; these barcodes will need to be updated prior to doing Goods In.