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NSC | Understanding the Serial and Lot Number Character Limit in NetSuite
Scenario
A warehouse or operations team is receiving Serialized or Lot Numbered inventory items and needs to understand the maximum number of characters allowed when entering serial or lot numbers during transactions such as:
- Item Receipts
- Item Fulfillments
This question commonly arises during large inventory receipts where many serial numbers are entered at once.
Solution
The Serial/Lot Number field currently supports approximately: 3,800 characters.
This limit includes:
- serial numbers
- lot numbers
- spaces
- separators between entries
Notes
- This limit only applies to accounts where the Advanced Bin Management feature is disabled. When this feature is not enabled, the Serial/Lot Numbers field in the transaction forms show as a Text Area field like the sample image below:
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