Commerce and logistics

Product codes, sizes, shipping terms, tracking numbers and vehicles.

Topics

These are the codes trade, transport and healthcare use: barcodes, ISBNs, container numbers, delivery terms, airport codes, blood types, diagnosis codes.

Records and health measures

These types are the records that sit beside an app's own data: a parcel's size and tracking number, a flight, a clothing size, a vehicle registration, a rating, a barcode.

Types

Type	What it is
`Sku`	A seller's own stock code: up to 64 characters with no spaces, such as `AB-1234-XL`.
`Ean13`	The 13-digit barcode number on most products outside North America.
`UpcA`	The 12-digit barcode number on products in the US and Canada.
`Isbn`	A book's number, in its 13 digits with no hyphens.
`Sscc`	The 18-digit number on a pallet or shipping container's label.
`Barcode`	What a barcode encodes, and which kind of barcode it is.
`UnitQuantity`	How much of something: a count of items, or an amount by mass, volume, length or area.
`Rating`	A rating on its own scale: `4.5/5`.
`ClothingSize`	A clothing size in its system, as the label writes it: `UK 10`, `US M`.
`ClothingSizeSystem`	Which system a clothing size is in: `UK`, `EU` or `US`.
`ShoeSize`	A shoe size in its system, as the box writes it: `UK 7.5`, `EU 42`.
`ShoeSizeSystem`	Which system a shoe size is in: `UK`, `EU` or `US`.
`Dimensions`	A box's length, width and height.
`HsCode`	A customs code for a kind of goods: six to ten digits, such as `090111` for coffee.
`Incoterm`	A rule saying who pays for what in international shipping: `FOB`, `DDP` and so on.
`TrackingNumber`	A parcel's tracking number, with its carrier: `UPSN 1Z999AA10123456784`.
`Carrier`	A shipping company by its two-to-four-letter code: `UPSN`, `MAEU`.
`ContainerNumber`	A shipping container's number, checked by its check digit: `CSQU3054383`.
`LotNumber`	A manufacturing batch: up to 20 characters, such as `ABC123`.
`SerialNumber`	One item's own serial number: up to 20 characters, such as `SN-0042a`.
`Vin`	A vehicle identification number: 17 characters with no `I`, `O` or `Q`.
`VehicleRegistration`	A vehicle's registration mark with its country: `GB AB12 CDE`.

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