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Barcode Generator

Generate barcodes (CODE128, EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A) online. Download as PNG or SVG for printing and commercial use.

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Total Inventory Control

If you run a small retail shop, warehouse, or library, managing thousands of items manually leads to massive inventory miscounts. Barcodes remove human error completely from the equation.

By sticking a simple 1D barcode on your products, your staff can use lightweight scanner guns or even mobile phone cameras to instantly log items in and out of your database system with 100% accuracy.

Which Barcode Should You Use?

It can be confusing looking at the massive list of barcode standards. If you are selling a product in a major retail store in the US or Canada, you must use a globally registered UPC-A barcode.

However, if you are simply creating internal tracking labels for tools in your own workshop, or ID badges for your employees, 'CODE128' is the undisputed best choice. It can encode both letters and numbers, it's incredibly dense, and virtually every scanner on earth can read it.

Frequently Asked Questions

No. If you want to sell products at major retailers (like Walmart or Amazon), you must purchase a globally unique barcode prefix directly from 'GS1', the official global authority on barcodes.