Retail / UPC / EAN

Retail point-of-sale barcodes (UPC-A, EAN-13, and their supporting standards) encode a Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) that identifies a specific product at checkout scanners worldwide.

Choosing a format

• EAN-13 is used internationally; UPC-A is its 12-digit North American counterpart and is compatible with EAN-13 scanners.
• This site can render a barcode from a GTIN you already have and calculate/validate its check digit -- it does not issue new GTINs or company prefixes.
• ISBN barcodes use the same EAN-13 symbology with a reserved prefix, for books specifically.

Tools in this category

• EAN-13 Generator -- EAN-13 check digit calculator for a 12-digit payload
• UPC-A Generator -- UPC-A / GTIN-12 retail product barcode labels with check digits
• ISBN Generator -- ISBN-13 book barcodes with optional EAN-5 price add-ons
• EAN-8 Generator -- EAN-8 / GTIN-8 barcodes for small retail packaging
• ISSN Generator -- ISSN barcodes for magazines, journals, newspapers, and serial publications
• EAN-14 Generator -- EAN-14 / GTIN-14 case and carton identification
• UPC-E Generator -- UPC-E compressed retail barcodes for small packages
• EAN-5 (5 digit addon) Generator -- EAN-5 five-digit add-on barcodes for book pricing and publications
• Marks & Spencer Generator -- Marks & Spencer retail barcode labels
• EAN-2 (2 digit addon) Generator -- EAN-2 two-digit add-on barcodes for publications and retail supplements
• ISMN Generator -- ISMN barcodes for printed music publications
• UPC-A Composite Generator -- UPC-A Composite retail barcodes with supplemental 2D GS1 data
• EAN-13 Composite Generator -- EAN-13 Composite retail barcodes with supplemental 2D GS1 data
• EAN-8 Composite Generator -- EAN-8 Composite barcodes for small products with supplemental 2D data
• UPC-E Composite Generator -- UPC-E Composite barcodes for small retail products with supplemental 2D data