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title: "Batch tools | Unitag Documentation"
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# Batch tools

Two screens exist for the case where the number of products makes the interface the wrong tool: Batch management, for creating and updating products from a spreadsheet, and Batch download, for getting their QR codes out as files.

## Batch management

![The Batch management screen: importing a spreadsheet of products on one side, exporting existing products on the other](https://www.unitag.io/documentation/images/packaging/en/packaging-batch-management.webp)

Batch management has two halves:

- **Import a batch**: create QR codes in bulk by importing a spreadsheet of products. Create batch starts the import.
- **Export products**: download your existing products as a spreadsheet, to review them or to modify them and import the result back.

The export is also the reliable way to get the template: a file exported from your own account already has the right columns and your own data in them, which removes most of the guesswork about what each column expects.

> Check a batch before you run a big one
>
> A batch that is wrong is wrong across every row it touches. Run a handful of products first, look at what was created, then run the rest.

## Batch download

![The Batch download screen: the download filters, the file size and format options, and the naming convention](https://www.unitag.io/documentation/images/packaging/en/packaging-batch-download.webp)

Batch download produces the QR code files for a set of products, ready for artwork. It is organised around three questions:

- **Download filters**: which products — by brand and range, optionally narrowed to GS1 type, or by batch ID for the products created in one import.
- **File size and format**: SVG files in real size, print-ready and GS1 certified, with the dimension you need.
- **Naming convention**: files are bundled into a ZIP, named after each product.

SVG rather than a raster format is the point: a QR code that will be printed at an unknown size has to stay sharp at every one of them.

- [Create a new batch](https://www.unitag.io/documentation/atlas/create-a-new-batch)

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