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Open any product in your Shopify admin and you will find a Barcode field sitting next to SKU. Shopify lets you leave it empty, and plenty of stores do, until a sales channel refuses to publish a product or a …
Beauty brands live and die by variety: a lipstick in twelve shades, a serum in two sizes, a lotion in three scents, a holiday set, a travel mini. Every one of those is a product a customer can pick — …
Barcodes for Cosmetics and Beauty Products: UPCs and Labels for Jars, Tubes and Bottles Read More »
You’ve bought your UPC codes, and now the barcode has to go on the box, bag, or label your designer is building. This is where a surprising number of launches go wrong: a barcode stretched to fit a gap, shrunk …
UPC Barcode Files for Packaging Designers: Formats, Size, Color and Quiet Zones Read More »
Every product on a store shelf carries the same little rectangle of black bars and twelve digits. Most people never look twice at it — until they’re creating their own product listings, troubleshooting a code that won’t scan, or wondering …
How to Read a UPC Barcode: What the 12 Digits, the Bars and the Check Digit Mean Read More »
It’s the first question almost every new brand asks us, and the one that decides how much you spend on barcodes: how many UPC codes do I actually need? Buy too few and you’ll be ordering again before launch; buy …
How Many UPC Codes Do I Need? Sizes, Colors, Bundles & Multipacks Read More »
Clothing is the most barcode-hungry category in retail. A single t-shirt design can turn into two dozen sellable products once you add sizes and colors — and every one of them has to scan as itself at the register, in …
UPC Barcodes for Clothing & Apparel: Every Size and Color, Hang Tags vs Labels Read More »
You’re gearing up to sell your product in the United States and in Europe — maybe launching on Amazon.com and Amazon.de at the same time. And every guide you read seems to say something different: “Americans use UPCs, Europeans use …
Do You Need Both a UPC and an EAN? Selling in the US and Europe Explained Read More »
Supplements are one of the most profitable — and most paperwork-heavy — categories in e-commerce. Between FDA labeling rules, Amazon’s gated category requirements, and co-manufacturer specs, new supplement founders face a wall of acronyms. And somewhere in that wall sits …
Barcodes for Supplements and Vitamins: UPC, FDA Labeling, and Amazon Requirements Read More »
Every year or two, the same post goes viral: “Check the first three digits of the barcode! If it starts with 690–699, the product was made in China. Buy 00–09 to support American manufacturing!” It gets shared millions of times, …
Does a Barcode Tell You Where a Product Was Made? The Country-Code Myth Read More »
There are few moments more frustrating for a product seller: your labels are printed, your packaging looks beautiful, and then the scanner goes… nothing. No beep. Or worse — the beep happens at a store register, in front of a …
Why Won’t My Barcode Scan? 9 Reasons and How to Fix Each One Read More »