Advantages of Barcode Registration

Our barcode registration service is entirely optional—however, registering your barcodes online offers the following key advantages:

1. Registration allows your products to appear in some mobile app scanners — Barcode registration helps products be recognized in certain mobile app scanners (such as the Zebra app). When a product barcode is scanned, the product information will be displayed.
2. Registration enhances your product’s online visibility — Barcode registration increases the online exposure of your products, so that when users search for the barcode on Google or other search engines, the product information will appear. This makes it easier for retailers and consumers to find your company and product information.
3. Registration helps prevent barcode numbers from being stolen or accidentally misused, as you will have additional evidence that these numbers belong to you. If a barcode is registered in an online database, it effectively deters others from illegally using that barcode number on platforms like Amazon. If others discover through a simple web search that the barcode number is already in use, the likelihood of illegal use decreases significantly. Although legally others may not use lawfully sold barcode numbers, if illegal use occurs, the legal owner of the barcode number must follow up, which causes extra trouble. Barcode registration makes it easy to avoid such issues.
4. Registration helps prove that your barcodes are legal and valid — For the few retailers who still believe the GS1 database (International Article Numbering Association database) provides all the answers and are skeptical of non-GS1 registered barcodes, registration serves as proof: you can show them this independent database (the aforementioned “International Barcodes Database”) where your barcodes are registered, proving that these barcodes belong to you and are legal and valid—this can save you a lot of time and avoid unnecessary frustration when communicating with certain retailers.

 

Copying a barcode is not difficult—anyone who sees a barcode number can copy it onto a different product. The registration service we provide not only helps you prevent illegal use of your barcode numbers but also assists retailers and consumers in looking up information about your products and business.

How to register your barcodes:

After you purchase barcodes from us, we will send them to you via email, and registration instructions will be included in that email. Afterwards, you can register your barcode numbers and product/company details on the International Barcodes Database—at https://barcodesdatabase.org/barcode-registration/—(your company name and barcode numbers are automatically registered in the IBNREG.org database). It should be noted that barcode registration on the International Barcodes Database is optional, but doing so helps improve your product’s visibility on the internet.

Once you have registered your barcode numbers and product details on the International Barcodes Database, your product details will be displayed if consumers search for your barcode number in online search engines (such as Google) or smartphone apps (such as the Zebra app). Please note that some smartphone barcode apps only search within online stores like Amazon.com (and do not search in online barcode databases), which means the database of barcode numbers/product details contained in these apps is smaller. High-quality smartphone barcode apps (such as the Zebra app) can search both in Amazon and other online stores, as well as in major online barcode/product databases.

Note: If you purchase EAN-13 or UPC barcodes from our company, the barcode registration service will be provided free of charge. If you already hold EAN-13 or UPC barcode numbers (and these numbers were not issued by our company) and need to register these numbers, please purchase the barcode registration service here.

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