UPC Barcodes

We want to be straight with you from the start — because that’s how we do business. Nationwide Barcode has been helping independent sellers, small manufacturers, online retailers, artists, musicians, and entrepreneurs get legitimate UPC […]

Barcode prefixes do not provide identification of origin for a specific product. They merely provide number capacity to different countries for assignment of barcode prefixes by the GS1. […]

A Step-by-Step Guide — nationwidebarcode.com What Is a Barcode? A barcode is an optical scanning symbol that encodes a product identification number. The formal term is GTIN (Global Trade Identification Number). There are two common […]

This viral email has been going around for a couple of years and is mainly untrue. The email says you can tell where a product has been manufactured by the UPC or EAN barcode. This […]

The Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode is a ubiquitous feature of the retail world, enabling quick and accurate scanning of products at the point of sale. Developed in the 1970s, the UPC barcode has had […]

The majority of retailers throughout the world will accept UPC or EAN Barcodes from Nationwide Barcode. The exceptions are some of the major retailers like Jc Penney’s, Krogers and Walmart. These retailers require that you […]

This article is part II about UPC and EAN barcodes being the same.  We’ll recap quickly and then move on… UPC barcodes are 12 digit barcodes and are used exclusively in the United States and […]

The first digit of a UPC-A Barcode is number system character. The following table shows you what different number system characters mean 0:      Standard UPC number 1:      Reserved 2:      Random weight items […]

Before you buy a barcode, we have written this tutorial to help you understand the differences between UPC Barcodes and EAN Barcodes. Below are both an EAN barcode and a UPC Barcode. The EAN contains […]

There are a number of great barcode applications on the market, but Amazon has made it easier as faster to locate items where you want to do some comparison shopping. There are three ways to […]

There are two components to a barcode graphic. The barcode graphic and the number beneath the bars. EAN = 0012345678905 UPC = (0)012345678905 or 012345678905 The GS1, the original source for barcodes, has created the […]

  The short answer is “no” The longer answer follows: Revelation 13: (17) so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the […]

Theres is no data, except for the barcode number itself, embedded in a barcode. […]

No. The bar code bars represent only the  number below. There is no other information contained within the bar code. All information is supplied to you to the wholesaler or retailer. A barcode is a […]

UPC and EAN Barcodes are used for both conveying pricing information to the Point of Sale Systems in stores (electronic cash registers) and maintaining inventory for the retailer. You need as many barcodes as you […]

When you sell your products to a wholesaler or retailer (Amazon, Target, Borders Books, Autozone, etc.), they will have you supply them or will have you fill out a product information sheet. The things that […]

The primary type of barcode used for retail packaging is a UPC-A barcode or simply, a UPC. A UPC bar code also known as a Universal Product Code is a unique 12-digit code that allows […]

The coupon code starts with a 5 to indicate that it is a coupon, then the next 5 numbers are positions two through six of the company prefix, the next three digits are the family […]

The first digit of the manufacturer’s identification number is special. It is called the number system character. The following table shows you what different number system characters mean 0: Standard UPC number 1: Reserved 2: […]

The UPC symbol has two parts: The machine-readable bar code and The human-readable 12-digit UPC number The manufacturer identification number is the first six digits of the UPC number — 753182 in the image above. […]

There are two types of barcodes for retail products, UPC – Universal Product Code and EAN  — European Article Number. We are going to focus on the 12-digit UPC-A barcodes since they are the most common […]