I would like to assign barcodes to all the products in my inventory without using the auto-generated barcodes.  For each of the barcodes for my products I like to include the date I purchased the item and my cost along with the sku.  I do this so when someone asks me if I can give them a discount for example, I can glance at the hangtag, which includes the barcode and know at a glance how long an item was in my inventory and what I paid for it.

I do not need FrontAccounting to generate my barcode.  I need to know if there is a way for me to enter a barcode I created for each item.  Ideally when I do my inventory checks I would like to be able to just scan the barcodes and have the program record the codes as I scan them.

Is this possible?

Thanks for the help.  That's pretty much what I did, except I emptied the branch table first.  With the info in the branch table it was creating double branches for each customer, one that worked and one that didn't.  After deleting the table, the info still showed up when I went to create new branches, but after entering it I only had one correct and working branch.

Thinking I knew what I was doing - which I didn't - I imported the four customer related databases from my old fa to a new installation.  The correct data is in the databases but I must be missing a step as FA isn't connecting the customers to their branches.  Before I empty the databases, create a spreadsheet and start over following the proper import instructions listed by apmuthu in another post, I was wondering if there was something I could do to make the tables recognize each other.  Currently when I go to make a sales it says the customer has no branch associated with it.