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All About Barcodes (Bar Codes) for Products that will be sold through Retailers If you are manufacturing products that will scanned by retailers at the Point of Sale, those products will need to have a bar code printed somewhere on their packaging. This bar code is called an EAN bar code (European Article Number). In the USA, a similar product bar code is called a UPC bar code (Universal Product Code). The allocation of these numbers (so that no two products manufactured anywhere in the world, will have the same number barcoded on them), is controlled by a global organisation called GS1. You will need to contact GS1 Australia, the organisation in Australia that has exclusive rights to the allocation of EAN bar codes. Their contact details can be found at http://www.gs1au.org GS1 will allocate you a series of numbers (or, if you only need one bar code, one number) which will be unique to you, generally consisting of the country of registration ( 93  for Australia), a  5 digit manufacturer’s number  that is unique to your organisation) and a  5 digit product number  (YOU allocate a unique number to each of your products), and  a final check digit , e.g. 9337204001013 A word of warning … there are many organisations offering to “sell” EAN or UPC bar codes on the Internet – be careful NOT to go through the process of “buying” a bar code, then have it incorporated in your packaging and THEN finding that the major retailers WILL NOT accept your product because they have tried to verify your barcode with GS1 (as every major retailer WILL) and found that your bar code is not validly registered – to be 100% safe ONLY deal with GS1. When you come to need bar code scanners (readers), barcode printers or any other POS (point of sale) equipment, give the Barcoder team a call. Also, you ONLY need EAN bar codes if you are going to be supplying products for retail sale. If all you need to do is use bar codes for internal applications, you can generate any bar code symbology, containing whatever data you wish it to contain. To learn a bit more about bar code symbologies, click here. The Barcoder team can supply the software and bar code printers to enable you to print your own bar codes.

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Barcoder DOES NOT have a Retail Shop. We are brokers who operate Australia wide and use our wide range of quality industry contacts to source the best possible price for you on over 3700 bar coding and Point of Sale products from Australia's largest importers and distributors of such products. We will endeavour to better any written quotation from any Australian based retailer. If you have been quoted a lower price for a product that we can source, just email us a copy of the competitive retail quotation and we will do our very best to better the quoted price. We guarantee to provide you with knowledgeable and helpful advice before you place your order and we provide all our clients with FREE telephone support on all products that we sell, engaging industry experts to assist when that is required.

Prices quoted on the Barcoder web site exclude GST and (unless otherwise stated) do not include handling and delivery charges and are subject to change without prior notice if our suppliers have changed their prices since we last updated a particular product's listing on this web site. If you are ordering more than one of the same product, and the item is NOT on Monthly Special or Super Special, you can claim extra discount. Click here to see Barcoder's BULK DISCOUNT POLICY. When comparing our prices to other suppliers please take into account the total price including shipping from us and the other supplier. Remember, if our total cost to you is higher than another supplier, we will do our best to better the other supplier's total price including shipping. With our Australia wide volume purchasing power we should be able to better any pricing from any Australian based retail competitor.

Orders are processed centrally at our Head Office in Sydney. Goods will be shipped from the warehouse that is nearest to you that has the stock that you have ordered. Warehouses are in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. All orders must be in writing and can not be accepted by telephone. Orders can be emailed to orders AT barcoder.com.au  (click on either of the underlined parts of the email address on the left, the displayed email address has been modified to prevent email harvesting by SPAMMERS) or faxed to 1300 855 827. You can attach formal Purchase Orders to your email if that is your organisation's ordering practice. All orders must contain the name, phone number and email address of the person who will receive the goods (we must have the email address so we can email a copy of our Tax Invoice to you prior to shipment so that you can double check your order), the name and ABN of the organisation ordering the goods (orders will NOT be shipped on credit unless a valid ABN is quoted), and a street address (with Post Code) for delivery (our couriers can not deliver to Post Office boxes). Thirty-day accounts can be opened for clients who will be making regular purchases and will be spending in excess of $5,000 with Barcoder annually. Orders placed with and accepted by Barcoder are accepted strictly subject to the Terms and Conditions which can be found at Barcoder-Terms-and-Conditions-of-Sale.htm and the placing of such orders shall be conclusive proof of the fact that the Purchaser has read, understands and agrees to such Terms and Condition of Sale.

Shipping costs are simple. If your order is processed before 2:00PM (Sydney/Melbourne time) and the items are in stock in either our Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney or Perth fulfilment warehouses, your goods will be shipped that afternoon to any location in Australia. Shipping charges are simple: if the items will fit in a 3Kg Air Satchel, they will be shipped to anywhere in Australia for $16.50 including GST (5Kg Air Satchels are $23.10 including GST). Items that will not fit in an Air Satchel will be shipped to anywhere in Australia by Road Express for $38.50 including GST for packages up to approximately 25Kg ... so, order in bulk to take advantage of that flat-rate Australia-wide shipping cost. Freight charges for very bulky or extra heavy orders or to remote delivery points will be shipped at cost, plus a small packing and shipping charge.

Payment can be made by Credit Card (Visa or MasterCard) or Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT). There is a 2% surcharge on all payments made by Credit Card (we just can not absorb Merchant Fees and maintain our extremely low discounted prices ... if you are happy to pay the full Suggested Retail Price, we are happy to not charge you the 2% fee and we will even ship your goods to you free of charge). If you are paying by Credit Card, please phone us with your credit card details. Payment can also be made, within 7 days from the invoice date, by EFT direct to Barcoder (our bank details will be printed on the invoice that will be emailed to you prior to shipment). NOTE: orders will NOT be shipped on 7-day payment terms unless a valid ABN is quoted at the time of order. If you have not quoted your ABN, payment must be made by Credit Card or EFT prior to us shipping your items.

Contacting Barcoder is convenient for you. You can contact us by phoning the State Metropolitan, Regional or Rural local phone number of the location that is nearest to you or by emailing us. For our full phone contact details, plus our principal email addresses, please click here.

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Barcoder is an Australian specialist in barcode scanners and readers, bar code printers, receipt printers, labels and POS (Point of Sale) solutions and equipment from Acom, Arrow, BarTender, Bluebird, Card Five, CAS, Cherry, Citizen, Cognitive, Datalogic, Denso, Double Power, Epson, HHP, Hyundai, IBM, Javelin, Metal Signs, Metrologic, MOBPOS, Motex, MYOB, Opticon, PDX, PosBox, Posiflex, Printex, PSC, Quicken, RM:Traveller, Salter, Sharp, Socket, Symbol, TEC, Tipro, TPG, Two Keys, WASP, Wetcover, Zebra.