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For any barcode to be valid your organization must be registered with your country’s EAN.UCC organization. They will allocate you a unique manufacturer/company number after you join as a member.

Click here to contact national EAN.UCC organizations

All EAN.UCC barcodes issued by your country will begin with a common prefix. This is called a country code. For example all EAN barcodes issued in Australia begin with '93'. Other country's assigned prefixes are listed in the table of EAN.UCC organizations (click the link above).

For each manufacturer, generally there are 100,000 different item numbers available to be allocated to your products. As a registered manufacturer, you are able to allocate your own product numbers.

The last digit on a barcode is called the check digit. This is a single digit calculated from the other digits in the barcode using a mathematical formula, and used to ensure the barcode is correctly composed.

Click here to use our Check Digit calculator

Once the numbers are allocated and you know which type of barcode is required, you need to find out how the barcode is to be printed.

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