Asset tags are the unique identifier of an asset within the Snipe-IT system. No two assets can have the same asset tag - which makes sense, since that could get really confusing.

Generate Auto-Incrementing IDs

If this is selected, Snipe-IT will pre-populate the Create Asset form with the next logical asset tag.

Next auto-increment

This can be useful if your normal incrementing is behaving strangely because you accidentally imported an asset (or several) that have non-numeric asset tags, while you normally use numeric incrementing tags. Since alphanumeric asset tags will inherently not be parsable as numbers, the auto-incrementer can get confused and inflate the next auto-increment value.

Prefix (optional)

If your asset tags should have a prefix, enter it here.

Length of Asset Tags

This setting will standardize the length of the asset tag using a zerofill, for example, asset tag 123 will become 000000123 if you had 9 set here.

This helps prevent some sorting issues when sorting by asset tag, since the database otherwise doesn't know how to logically sort tags that have a mix of numbers and letters of varying lengths.

Note that changing this value will not update existing asset tags to reflect the new length.