Installing Your Mobile Barcode Scanner

If you purchased the scanner from one our preferred vendors, your barcode scanner may have been preinstalled with the Finale Data Collector software. If you purchased the scanner somewhere else, you will need to install the software before you can sync data back and forth. This video shows the process of installing your mobile barcode scanner using our software.

See the video below for instruction:

Installing Your Mobile Barcode Scanner

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Installing your Mobile Barcode Scanner

Video Transcription

Hello. This is Mike with Finale Inventory. In this video, we will be installing your mobile barcode scanner on your computer. We’re going to get the Finale Data Collector software, download it from our website and onto that handheld. And we’re gonna get it all integrated together and set up and ready for you to use.

So, where we start with this is log into your Finale Inventory account and get to your home screen.

So, the mobile barcode scanner, I’m gonna see if I can bring this up to you, you buy that from one of our partners. Once you get it, you may get it from them and it kind of looks like this when you get it out of the package.

The first thing’s we need to put the battery in. So, they may ship it without the battery normally. So, I’m just gonna show you, the battery has a tab on one end. So you can see the tab on this end and there’s no tab on this end. Just simply put the end with the tab towards the bottom of the device and snap it in.

And then you’re gonna see the cover. The cover has these little wings on them or little latches. So, we’re gonna put the bottom of the cover on first and then make sure the little tabs are pressed out and we’re just gonna press it in.

To power it up, press the red button and it should light up and give you to the Windows home screen.

The next piece to this is you should’ve gotten with your scanner a USB cradle. This will plug into the bottom of the unit for connecting it to your computer and it also provides the power to charge it.

The other end of this cable looks like this. It’s a USB connection with also a power injector. So, you’ll wanna take that step and get that charger cable and go ahead and plug it into the Y so that now you have power available to the unit.

Take your USB connection and plug it into your computer.

Now we’re ready to actually connect it to the computer. Just simply connect it to the cradle, okay?

Windows should be loading the drivers for the device.

Once that gets loaded, it’s normally fires off.

The next step that we need to do is to actually connect to the handheld unit. Go to add-ons and integrations. You’ll notice that by default you may not have any integrations here. Go to the action menu and choose install mobile barcode scanner integration.

Once we get this integration installed to your account, go to the barcode scanning screen.

From here, you need to install a Finale Inventory Chrome extension which is a program that runs in the Google Chrome browser.

Next, we need to download the actual Finale Inventory Windows application which is gonna talk to that extension.

You might get a warning here that says it’s not a commonly downloaded program. That’s okay. Just click on this little arrow here and say keep.

Once it finishes downloading, you can click on this to actually run it and then the Finale Inventory setup wizard will run.

Take the defaults and hit next. You’re gonna get a warning for user account control. It’s okay. Say yes.

Now we just need to take the step to use this button here that says connect to pocket PC. Once we connect, the browser will inform you that you need to update the actual scanner software.

Now that we’re successful, we just hit continue.

The next button you’re gonna be presented with is the button to download all of your accounts, your product IDs, stock levels, purchase orders, and sales orders to the handheld.

So at this moment, we have successfully connected the scanner to the computer, installed the Windows drivers, connected it to the browser, added the Google extension, and installed the Finale Windows application.

We’re going to go to the action menu. We configure the data collector integrator and we’re gonna set what happens to the data when you sync from the handheld back to the Cloud. By default, they’re all set to draft.

Now we have successfully set how the scanner is going to interact with the Cloud once we do a sync.

If you need to stop mid operation, you can exit the operation on the scanner and return to it later using reopen operations.

This can only be done before syncing.

If you need to clear the scanner of an operation, you can delete one or all of the saved operations on the scanner. This can only be done prior to syncing.

Now that scanner operation is removed and you can start the pick from the beginning using the correct subloss.

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