{"id":1291822,"date":"2017-07-14T02:43:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T02:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/?page_id=1291822"},"modified":"2019-11-25T19:26:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T22:26:38","slug":"introduction-to-barcodes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/en\/introduction-to-barcodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Barcodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Introduction To Barcodes<\/h1>\n<h3>Barcodes for Retail Products<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Barcodes are used on retail products to help retailers.<\/strong> They are used for scanning at the checkout, stock tracking etc.\u00a0There are no legal requirements for retail barcodes, however they do need to meet\u00a0accepted retail industry standards.<\/li>\n<li><strong>There are 3 types of retail barcodes:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>EAN13<\/strong> &#8211; 13 digit globally unique barcodes used in most countries <strong>outside<\/strong> the USA and Canada &#8211; can be used on products <strong>worldwide<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>EAN8<\/strong> &#8211; a smaller globally unique barcode intended for VERY SMALL products &#8211; difficult to obtain and only available from GS1. GS1 is a membership organisation. &#8211; EAN8 barcodes are only 8 digits long &#8211; this means that there is a limited number of them, and hence GS1 guard them carefully. So to obtain these, you need to submit proof that your product is very small, and wait to see if GS1 approve this.<\/li>\n<li><strong>UPC<\/strong> (also called UPC-A) &#8211; 12 digit globally unique barcodes commonly used in the USA and Canada, but can be used on products worldwide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Our EAN13 and UPC barcode numbers can be used for any retail product except books &amp; magazines<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/buy-barcode-number\/\">You can purchase EAN13 or UPC barcodes from us here<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Books require an ISBN number, which is turned into an ISBN barcode<\/strong> <strong>(in EAN13 format)<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/magazine-barcodes\/\">You can purchase an ISBN barcode for your book here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Magazines require an ISSN number, which is turned into an ISSN barcode (in EAN13 format)<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/isbn-barcodes\/\">You can purchase an ISSN barcode for your magazine\/periodical here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>All legal retail barcodes (including ours) originate from the GS1 system. <\/strong>You can obtain your barcodes directly from GS1, however this is ONLY a licensing arrangement and you will typically be required to complete multi-page membership forms, pay joining fees and annual renewal fees and then wait for approval. Alternatively you can purchase your barcodes from a genuine barcode reseller company such as ourselves.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Retail barcode numbers are globally unique numbers and are protected.\u00a0<\/strong>You can&#8217;t just make up barcode numbers to use (unless you are ONLY selling your products within your own store). Barcode numbers need to be purchased or obtained through a license arrangement. Obtaining a barcode number from a licensee organisation is usually VERY expensive.<\/li>\n<li><strong>There is NO product information encoded in retail barcodes.<\/strong> Barcode numbers are purely unique numbers, effectively drawn from a large international database and allocated to you.\u00a0The bars of the barcode ONLY encode the number shown under the bars. Scanning the bars is just a quick way to enter the barcode number into a retailers computer system, so that the product information, pricing etc shows up at the checkout.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your retailer has to manually connect your barcode number to your product details within their system. <\/strong>When a retailer first receives your product, they will scan the barcode or type the barcode number into their computer system. They will also enter other product information eg product name, description, retail price, supplier etc. After this, when the barcode is scanned at the checkout, the correct information will be displayed. Larger retailer chains will require you to enter all this information onto a form, which is then entered into their computer system automatically.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A different barcode number is needed for each unique product<\/strong> &#8211; and then you can sell thousands or millions of the same product with the same barcode number on it. For example if you have 3 different products and each has 5 different colours, you will need 3 x 5 = 15 barcodes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The best way to get a barcode onto your product is to incorporate the barcode image into the design of your product packaging.<\/strong> We supply the barcode images for printing on your product. If you have already printed your product packaging, then you can add a barcode using a separate sticky label.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Barcode numbers say NOTHING about the country of origin of the product or the company<\/strong>. The first few digits of a barcode number ONLY show the country of origin of the BARCODE NUMBER. Our numbers start with 07 which shows the NUMBER comes from the USA. We have thousands of customers using tens of thousands of our barcodes in 100+ countries without any problems.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Our barcodes can be scanned by ALL retailers WORLDWIDE.<\/strong> However a very small group of retailers have extra requirements that restrict barcodes. For details of barcode acceptance worldwide see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/barcode-acceptance\/\">https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/barcode-acceptance\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Our barcodes can be used in ALL countries, except possibly China.<\/strong> Some Chinese distributors insist that the products they distribute have a barcode number that originates from GS1 in your country. This is because they incorrectly believe that the first few digits of a barcode number show the country of origin of the product. This is untrue. Yes this unfortunate mistaken view can be very costly for some manufacturers who want to sell their products in China, as these Chinese distributors pressure the manufacturer to get GS1 barcodes &#8211; joining GS1 is time consuming and expensive, with joining fees and annual fees, plus lawyers and debt collectors if you don&#8217;t pay your renewal fees.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Retail barcodes do not need to be registered <\/strong>however you can register them if you want to. If you purchases retail barcodes (EAN or UPC) from our company you will be able to register your barcode numbers &amp; product details for free on the <a href=\"https:\/\/barcodesdatabase.org\/\">International Barcodes Database<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/buy-barcode-number\/\"><span><strong>CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE RETAIL BARCODES (EAN OR UPC)<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Barcodes for Cartons<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Barcodes can be used for cartons containing retail products. These cartons are used for shipping and storage.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/itf-14-barcodes\/\">ITF-14 barcodes<\/a> are the common barcodes for cartons.\n<ul>\n<li>These are 14 digit numbers based on the barcode number of the retail product inside the carton<\/li>\n<li>These are ONLY for cartons for shipping and storage. If the carton is being sold at retail level, it should have a retail barcode on it (EAN13 or UPC) rather than an ITF-14 barcode e.g a case of wine can be bought as a single unit by a customer so would need a retail barcode (EAN13 or UPC).<\/li>\n<li>These barcodes are larger size than retail barcodes, and should have a heavy horizontal line top and bottom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/itf-14-barcodes\/\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO PUCHASE ITF-14 CARTON BARCODES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>QR Codes<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/qr-codes\/\">QR codes<\/a> are square barcodes that look a bit like a maze.<\/li>\n<li>QR codes can be used to link to a website URL or to contain information.<\/li>\n<li>QR codes can be used on retail products, BUT the product will ALSO need a <a href=\"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/buy-barcode-number\/\">retail barcode<\/a> on it. The retail barcode is scanned by the retailer fro pricing etc at the checkout.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/qr-codes\/\">CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE QR CODES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Barcodes Images<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Barcodes can be created with many different encoding formats.\n<ul>\n<li>Some of these formats are suitable for <a href=\"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/buy-barcode-number\/\">retail products<\/a>\u00a0and books\/magazines (EAN13, UPC-A, EAN8)<\/li>\n<li>Some of these formats are useful for cartons (<a href=\"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/itf-14-barcodes\/\">ITF-14 barcodes<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Some of these formats are useful for tracking pallets or shipping containers<\/li>\n<li>Some of these formats are used for stock tracking and inventory purposes (eg for library books or asset labeling)<\/li>\n<li>Some are 2 dimensional eg <a href=\"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/qr-codes\/\">QR codes<\/a> and contain information or links to website URLS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>We can create barcodes in all of these formats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/retail-barcode-images\/\">CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE BARCODE IMAGES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction To Barcodes Barcodes for Retail Products Barcodes are used on retail products to help retailers. They are used for scanning at the checkout, stock tracking etc.\u00a0There are no legal requirements for retail barcodes, however they do need to meet\u00a0accepted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/en\/introduction-to-barcodes\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1291822","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Introduction to Barcodes - surinamebarcodes.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/en\/introduction-to-barcodes\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/surinamebarcodes.com\\\/en\\\/introduction-to-barcodes\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/surinamebarcodes.com\\\/en\\\/introduction-to-barcodes\\\/\",\"name\":\"Introduction to Barcodes - surinamebarcodes.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/surinamebarcodes.com\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-07-14T02:43:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-11-25T22:26:38+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/surinamebarcodes.com\\\/en\\\/introduction-to-barcodes\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/surinamebarcodes.com\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/surinamebarcodes.com\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"surinamebarcodes.com\",\"description\":\"Another International Barcodes Network site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/surinamebarcodes.com\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Introduction to Barcodes - surinamebarcodes.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/en\/introduction-to-barcodes\/","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/en\/introduction-to-barcodes\/","url":"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/en\/introduction-to-barcodes\/","name":"Introduction to Barcodes - surinamebarcodes.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-07-14T02:43:41+00:00","dateModified":"2019-11-25T22:26:38+00:00","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/en\/introduction-to-barcodes\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/en\/","name":"surinamebarcodes.com","description":"Another International Barcodes Network site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1291822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291822"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1291822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295194,"href":"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1291822\/revisions\/1295194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surinamebarcodes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}