ITF-14 Carton Barcodes
If you need a barcode for the outer delivery carton (for your product), you can purchase one below.
An outer delivery carton barcode is called an ITF-14 Barcode (it is also sometimes called GTIN 14 or TUN). ITF-14 Carton Barcodes are 14-digits long (they are generated from the retail product’s 13-digit EAN13 barcode number).
ITF-14 Book Barcode
Sample ITF-14 Carton Code
Download Sample ITF-14 Carton Code (zip file)
You can also purchase ITF-14 Carton Code Labels if you require this.
How to use ITF-14 Carton Barcodes:
You will receive your ITF-14 Carton barcode images via email in 4 different formats (jpeg, eps, bmp, tiff & pdf). You can then print the ITF-14 Code onto your delivery carton.
Note: ITF-14 Codes are only used for the outer shipping containers/cartons containing the retail products, they are not used on retail products themselves (all products for retail sale need EAN barcodes).
Some examples of how to use an ITF-14 barcode:
First Example:
If you want to supplytins of apricotsto retail stores in delivery boxes that contain40 tins each, and these tins are to be sold individually within the retail stores,then you will need:
1) One EAN-13 barcode (eg. ‘0123456789012’) to go onto each of the tins (retail products); and
2) One ITF-14 barcode (generated fromyour product barcode – ie. ‘10123456789019’) to be printed onto each of the delivery boxes.
Scenario Two:
If your apricot tins are to be sold in retail stores both as individual tins and as 4-pack lots, then you need to get:
1) Two EAN barcodes (one to go onto the tins that are being sold individually, and the other to go onto the 4-pack tins); and
2) Two ITF-14 carton codes (one generated from each of the EAN barcode numbers). One ITF-14 barcode would be for the delivery boxes that contained the individual tins, the other ITF-14 barcode would be printed onto the delivery boxes that contained the 4-pack lots of tins.
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This means that if the retailers only use barcodes for option 1, you can get away with having the same barcode for 2 product variations (i.e. different colours of the same product), however if the retailer uses barcodes for option 2 as well, then a different barcode will be required for each product variation.
In general retailers prefer to stock products that will be straight forward to manage. Some retailers may prefer not to stock products if they have to manually count how many are left of each size and reorder accordingly. Therefore is is recommended that you have a different barcode for each variation.
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