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Essential Fields

Owner: Publisher · 6 fields

The minimum data required to identify a product: title, a primary identifier (UPC/ISBN/EAN), price, and category.

See the full Data Dictionary for a searchable table across all tiers.

UPC​

Machine name: UPC · Position: 1 · Type: Number · Length: 17 · Owner: Publisher · Required: Required for comics

The UPC field provides the 12-digit Universal Product Code and 5-digit supplements for all items which carry a UPC. Example 75960608857704611

Within the UPC field there are key pieces of information that should be conveyed.

The first digit represents the number system character, the second set of five digits represents the manufacturer code (or in our case publisher code), the next set of five digits represent the product code (or in our case series code), the next digit is a check code which is generated by the UPC system.

The final five digit code represents the supplemental data for a publication.

This is expressed as one of two format types where I = issue, C = cover, and P = printing IIICP - three digits for issue number, one digit for cover, and one digit for printing IICCP - two digits for issue number, two digits for cover, and one digit for printing You may choose either system, but whatever you choose must be used for the entire run of a title. BE AWARE: IICCP means you can only have 99 issues in a series.

Example: 75960608857704611

Notes: When deciding on an ICP formatting, you will need to abide by that format for the entire duration of the UPC's lifetime. You can't start using IICCP, and then decide after issue 100 to use IIICP because those Supplemental codes will have already been used in previous issues.

ISBN​

Machine name: ISBN · Position: 2 · Type: Number · Length: 13 · Owner: Publisher · Required: Required for books

The ISBN field provides the 13-digit International Standard Book Number for all items which carry an ISBN.

Example: 9781302920494

EAN​

Machine name: EAN · Position: 3 · Type: Number · Length: 18 · Owner: Publisher · Required: Required for books

The EAN is 13-digit International Standard Book Number + the additional 5 characters in price.

Example: 978130292049451499

Notes: Each new printing with a price change will have a different 18 digit EAN. Multiple EAN's may share the same ISBN (13 digit number).

FullTitle​

Machine name: FullTitle · Position: 4 · Type: Text · Length: 512 · Owner: Publisher · Required: Yes

The Full Title field encompasses the full title of an item. This field may contain relevant information such as series number and variant information, where applicable.

Example: Something is Killing the Children #1 Fall of the House of Slaughter Artgerm Full Art (Mature)

Notes: Periodical: [SeriesName] #[issue number] [one-shot] Cover [cvr letter] [CoverDescription] [VariantRatio in 1:## format] Collected/GN/TPB/HC: [SeriesName] [volume abbreviation] [number with leading zero] [CoverDescription] [format abbr] The bracketed names above refer to COMET fields. Note that the cover-difference text comes from CoverDescription — there is no "VariantDescription" field.

PriceUSD​

Machine name: PriceUSD · Position: 5 · Type: Decimal · Length: 12 · Owner: Publisher · Required: Yes

The PriceUSD field includes the suggested retail price in US dollars that is printed on the product. Note that this field will not include a dollar sign ($). Also known as the MSRP.

Example: 3.99

ProductCategory​

Machine name: ProductCategory · Position: 16 · Type: Pick List · Length: 24 · Owner: Publisher · Required: Yes

The ProductCategory is the categorization that the product falls under for taxation purposes.

Example: Comics

Picklist: ProductCategories

Notes: See Categorization table