Thread: variants and sku same length

We would like to connect our store to a point of sale system. This POS system requires a six-digit sku number. No problem. And their POS requires that every variant will have its own sku number. No problem.

But the POS system requires that all sku's be six digits.

My understanding is that sku's for variants re handled by sku modifiers - an extension onto the sku number.

Is there a way to force the sku's for the main product to have the same number of digits as the sku's for the variants to that product? We need the product and the variants to both have six digits.

I hope this makes sense. Is this possible?

Probably you will need to translate the SKU numbers. Limiting to 6 digits makes pulling stock a nightmare. I would create an SQL table with the translations of SKU's between the two systems.