How to barcode my product?
- Fill out a registration form
- Make payment
- You receive your barcode numbers, barcode images and certificate of ownership in your email inbox.
- Print your barcode images onto stickers (labels) and place them onto your product OR incorporate your barcode image into your product label design.
What do I need to barcode my product?
1. an authentic, never-been-used barcode number
2. the barcode image (black and white bars and lines) that corresponds to that number
3. a means of attaching the barcode image to your product. The two most popular means are (1) incorporating the barcode image into the product packaging itself or (2) by using a label.
The barcode number
Each unique product requires a unique barcode number. If you wanted to sell a shirt in three different sizes small, medium and large, you would need 3 barcodes. If that same shirt was available in colours red and blue. You would need 6 barcodes, why? There are 6 unique variations of the shirt: a small red shirt, a medium red shirt, a large red shirt, a small blue shirt, a medium blue shirt and a large blue shirt.
If you know how many barcodes you need, you can buy them here.
The barcode image
Since the store scanners are constructed to scan the barcode image, all barcode numbers must be transformed to a scannable barcode image that meets the dimensions and standards of retail barcodes.
Ensure your barcode package comes with barcode images, otherwise you may have to deal with additional expenses and hassles if you have to generate the images on your own or rely on a 3rd party printing service to do that for you. From experience, not all printing services understand the requirements for a correct retail barcode images and there have been problems with product owners using incompetent printing services.
Make sure you buy from a company offering barcode images in their barcode package. Learn more about what is included in our barcode package here.
Getting your barcode image onto your product
Almost always the barcode image is incorporated into the packaging design or is attached to the product by means of a label.
Simply send your graphic designer that designed your packaging the image and they can incorporate it into the product label design.
Alternately, you can print separate labels and stick them onto the product. This is useful when you have already manufactured the entire product and its only missing the barcode number. When the packaging itself doesn’t allow for more space for the number re-sizing the image can also help.
Another common means of attaching the barcode is by using a tag. This is primarily used in the clothing industry where attaching stickers to clothing may damage the material. So a barcode label is used instead which can be removed easily once the clothing item is purchased.
Learn more about the correct dimensions and standards of barcode label printing here.
To buy barcodes for your products visit this page, fill out a registration form and make payment.
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