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Barcodes for Food and Beverages

Food and drink products in South Africa use EAN-13 barcodes. Our EAN-13 barcodes are suitable for use on food and drink products in South Africa as well as worldwide.

All you need to do is to buy the barcodes on our website and pay by credit card. You will receive your barcodes automatically by email as soon as we receive your payment. Each barcode is a globally unique sequence of 13 digits made into a barcode image (the vertical black bars and white spaces). No product information is in the barcodes when you receive them. Your barcodes and products will only be linked together once you give them to your retailers. The retailers enter the information into their inventory system (after that, when the barcode is scanned, the product/price information will appear on the retailer’s checkout screen).

Every different retail product requires a different barcode number (including product variations such as size or flavour). You will need two EAN-13 barcodes if you have a drink product that is being sold both as individual bottles and in cartons to be sold by the case.

You will receive EAN-13 barcodes suitable for use on all food and beverage products in South Africa and worldwide. This includes beer, spirits and wine.

  • EAN-13 Retail Barcode Package

    Instant email delivery

    If you buy an EAN-13 barcode package from us below, you will receive the following:
    1. A unique EAN-13 barcode number
    2. Barcode images (in 4 different formats: jpeg, png, SVG & pdf)
    3. A guarantee certificate
    4. Free Barcode Registration on the International Barcodes Database.

    Quantity Price per Barcode
    1 R 275
    2 R 260 each
    3-4 R 250 each
    5 + R 220 each
    10 + R 200 each
    15 + R 180 each
    20 + R 170 each
    30 + R 160 each
    40 + R 150 each
    50 + R 130 each
    75 + R 120 each
    100 + R 110 each NOW ONLY R71.50 each
    150 + Please contact us.

We have many customers using our barcodes on their food or beverage products:

Netarri-Instabean (chocolate drinks, chai powders, flavoured syrups)
The Sauce Queen (smokey BBQ sauces)
Che Gourmet  (honey, gourmet foods)
Back To Basics  (spices, olive oil, sauces, seeds, marinades, nutritional supplements)
ButtaNutt spreads
Java Foods (Zambia) – eeZee instant noodles
Moringa Foods International.
The Herbalist supplements
Lemon & Vinegar (jam, biltong, healthy snacks)
Egoli Distillery

FAQs about barcodes for food and drink products:

If you have different vintages for sale at the same time, each with a different price, you need a different barcode for each vintage to ensure the correct price appears when scanned at checkout..

Some retailers and wholesalers require ITF-14 barcodes (GTIN-14 barcodes) to go on the pallets of food and beverage products.  An ITF-14 barcode goes on the delivery boxes that contain your products – please discuss this with your retailers to find out if they require these. ITF-14 barcodes are 14 digits long and are based on the 13-digit EAN barcode that goes on the product labels. When each delivery carton enters the warehouse/storage area, the system scans them so your retailers know how many items of your product are in each box. This helps them keep track of the remaining stock in their warehouse and know when they’re running low on a particular product and need to order more. Usually, you’ll need one ITF-14 barcode for each EAN-13 barcode that you have. You can purchase an ITF-14 barcode here if you need one.
You can find more information on how to use your barcodes on this page. We also have a short (7-page) Barcode Buyer Document PDF that explains how to use your barcode.
This is not necessary. You can assign the barcodes to your products, incorporate them onto your product labels, and start selling them instantly. There is no obligatory barcode database for any retail product anywhere else. However, some (optional) general barcode databases that list different retail products are available online. One of the best ones is the International Barcodes Database. When you buy “EAN-13 Barcode Packages” from us, you can register your barcodes for free on that database. Registration is an optional service. It is not compulsory. For more information about barcode registrations, click here.
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