In this article, we'll show you how to create labels for products and product variants to further simplify your warehouse processes.
Product labels
With Pickware Advanced or Enterprise, you can conveniently generate product labels via your Pickware Admin. To do this, go to the Products overview and select the desired products using the checkbox. Then click on Create labels.
In the following window, you can first set the barcode content: Use the selection options to choose whether the product number or the GTIN / EAN should be encoded as the barcode. The product number is preselected by default. If a product has no EAN stored and you select GTIN / EAN, the product number will be used as a fallback. If multiple EANs are stored, separated by commas, the first EAN will be used.
You can then choose between three layouts and set the size and print margin. The Pickware Admin offers you these three layout templates:
Barcode and product number | |
Barcode, product number and product name | |
Barcode, product number, |
Then click on Create labels. You will now receive the generated labels, sorted by product number, as a PDF file for download.
Alternatively, product labels can also be created using various common tools. To do this, you'll need, for example, the product number/EAN number of an item. You can get the list of product numbers via CSV export.
Product labels for variant products
Product labels for variants can be created in the same way, provided you have activated the display of variants. You can find out how to activate or deactivate the display of variant products here. If you have deactivated the display of variants in the Products overview, proceed as follows:
If you want to generate product labels for variants, you must first click on the variants icon in the Products overview:
In the next step, you can select the desired variants and create the labels using the button above.
How can I use Avery Zweckform labels with Pickware?
Currently, Pickware ERP only supports printing one label per page. This means that the widely used Avery Zweckform format (multiple labels on one sheet) is not currently directly selectable via the label template. However, you can still use this format via the print settings of your PDF viewer or printer driver.
Workaround: printing multiple labels on one page
Create your labels as usual via Pickware (e.g., from goods receipt or the product details).
Open the generated PDF file. This usually contains multiple pages, each with one label.
Open the Print menu of your PDF viewer (e.g., Adobe Acrobat).
Under Page Sizing & Handling, select the option Multiple.
Then specify how many labels should be printed per page (e.g., 4 × 8 or 3 × 10, depending on the Avery Zweckform sheet used).
Before the actual printing, do a test print on regular paper to check the alignment.
You can find detailed instructions directly from Adobe: Print multiple pages per sheet (Adobe Acrobat)
If your printing program doesn't offer a multi-page function, you can use free online tools to merge multiple PDF pages into one page and then print as usual on Avery Zweckform sheets.