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Barcodes are essential tools for selling online and through major retailers as well as for managing inventory and tracking sales. However, there are a few important questions to consider before purchasing barcodes for your business. Learn important questions to ask before buying barcodes.   Does the Seller Register Your Products With GS1? Global Trade Item Number (GTI...

In today’s digital world, barcodes have become an essential tool for businesses of all sizes. Barcodes allow businesses to quickly and accurately track inventory while reducing costs associated with manual data entry. Learning how to use barcodes to effectively manage inventory will streamline and optimize a business’s storage, fulfillment, and supply operations....

Are you looking to create an Amazon listing that stands out against the competition? If so, it’s important to understand Amazon listing best practices. You need to know how to create a listing that incorporates the key components of successful listings that drive sales. Here are five best practices you should be aware of for Amazon listings. Keywords Using relevant ke...

UPC and EAN codes are commonly used product identification numbering systems. Many people use these terms interchangeably, but there are several key distinctions. When reviewing UPC codes vs. EAN codes, understanding the difference is important. Why Do Products Need a Code? Product codes enable retailers to store and track information about the products they sell. They help...

Barcodes were a revolutionary invention in the retail industry, allowing businesses to quickly and efficiently track inventory, conduct checkouts, and improve accuracy. A quick history of using barcodes in retail shows how this technology became the standard in retail operations. First developed over 70 years ago and first used commercially in the 1970s, retailers have embra...

For large retailers, managing inventory can be a daunting task. With thousands of products coming in and out of their warehouses daily, it’s essential to have a system in place to track what items are selling. Retailers must also know when to order new stock. So how do big-box stores keep such a tight rein on their inventory? We’ll look at the main ways large reta...

Getting a product into retail stores is a major step for small businesses, especially if they want to grow to be large ones. Here’s everything you need to know to get your product into retail stores. Start Online The first step in getting your product into retail stores is to start online. You’ll need to create a website and online store for your business....

Amazon is one of the largest online retail platforms in the world. It allows sellers to list their products on the site and offers customers a huge variety of items from which to choose. However, with such large scale comes strict rules and regulations that all sellers must adhere to for their products to remain listed on Amazon. Selling noncompliant products or participatin...

Selling on Amazon can be a lucrative venture and provide the opportunity to connect with customers worldwide. But there are some important things you should know before selling your products on Amazon. Here are a few key tips for anyone getting started selling on Amazon.   Understand Amazon’s Fees Listing on Amazon isn’t free: there is a range of fees for...

Whether you run an e-commerce business, a retail store, or an online marketplace, barcodes can provide a powerful tool for boosting efficiency and productivity. If your business isn’t currently using them to streamline processes across the board, it’s time to consider how adding barcodes can help. We’ll explore three ways that barcodes can help increase effici...

Any company that wants to find success selling products online needs to make an important decision at some point. Should the company try selling its products on its own website, making it potentially harder for people to find them? Or should it sell products on a large marketplace like Amazon, despite the extra competition? It’s hard to beat the built-in shopper base t...

Are you thinking of buying cheap UPC codes for your product? You may want to think again. Low-quality UPC codes can put your business at risk. Many companies offer these codes for sale without doing any background checks or verifying the authenticity of the source from which they obtain them. This means that when you purchase these lower-cost codes, there is no guarantee that t...

When someone new to owning their own business and selling products thinks about selling them online, it’s understandable that they would think it isn’t very different from selling things in person. You’re still selling a product to a customer, so how many differences could there really be? This way of thinking can cause a lot of newer small businesses to run...

Selling your products on Amazon is a huge boon to any creator because of the massive audience it puts your products in front of. Sometimes, sellers will feel intimidated about using Amazon as a marketplace because they don’t know what they need to get started. An important question is whether you need a barcode to sell on Amazon. We’ll go over the basics to introd...

It isn’t a stretch to say that the UPC barcode has been one of the integral keys to businesses globalizing throughout the past few decades. Supply chains before the UPC barcode were far less streamlined. They required far more work by many more people to ensure that the right products found their way to the right places. Nowadays, UPC barcodes are everywhere in the suppl...

Any business that will survive in the long run needs to adapt and evolve over time. This usually means developing and offering new products. The best way to make new products is a hotly contested topic that every professional has an opinion on. However, there are some common mistakes when creating new products that plenty of businesses make without even realizing. Below are som...

Listing your product on Amazon is perhaps the best way to get it in front of as many eyes as you possibly can. The issue is how to make sure you use Amazon effectively to sell more of your products. It’s not as simple as slapping a title and an image on a webpage and calling it done. There are a few common Amazon listing mistakes everyone should avoid if they actually wan...

For a wide variety of modern companies, selling online is by far the smartest way to reach the most customers possible in the shortest amount of time. Even businesses that have brick-and-mortar stores are selling their goods online to quickly boost sales and expand their reach. If you want to be successful when selling your products online, you’ll want to make sure you ha...

We see barcodes so often on the items we buy, yet many people don’t really understand what those barcodes do or what kind of information they have inside of them. UPC barcodes aren’t as mysterious and full of data as people might think. Let’s take a look at what information is stored in a UPC barcode to demystify what they are and what they translate to when y...

Once again Amazon has tightened their requirements for UPC barcodes when listing anew product on their site. This is due to thefact that so many illegitimate vendors of UPC barcodesare selling dirt cheap numbers they’ve simply created out of thin air. Are you wondering if your Amazon UPC codes are correct? Read on to learn more about why Amazon has certain UPC requirement...