Title: Native UPC/EAN support
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Native UPC/EAN support

 *  [YonaNY](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yonany/)
 * (@yonany)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/native-upcean-support/)
 * A simple Google search shows many threads over the years asking for UPC/EAN support
   to be native in WooCommerce. All of them have been closed, often without a single
   reply or comment. A recent thread was answered that only 3 people asked for this
   in the ideas board. That may be so, but perhaps that is because it keeps getting
   shut down, or newbies do not even know to post there, or where that board is.
 * As a designer/manufacturer with 25 years of experience, including using EDI via
   VAN networks (before there was even a www), I can tell you that today’s E-Comm
   world demands UPC/EAN support. Try selling on Amazon without it. No joy.
 * I do understand that there are third party patches and plugins to address this.
   But I feel strongly that this is 1) Easy to implement, and 2) Very much needed
   to scale into selling online in the current marketplace. The e-tail field is 
   too noisy to generate enough traffic to stay alive alone. Leveraging Amazon and
   other popular e-tail sites is the only way to go, and the only way to use them
   is to have UPCs.
 * I for one can not move forward to sell to large chain stores or bigger e-tailers
   without UPC codes. I can not be the only one with this problem. Thank you for
   the wonderful WooCommerce.

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