{"id":5720,"date":"2020-07-10T14:24:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T14:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gs1.se\/your-industry\/marketplaces\/how-to-get-your-products-ready-to-be-sold-on-line\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T11:36:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T09:36:19","slug":"get-ready-to-sell-products-online","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gs1.se\/en\/your-industry\/ecommerce\/marketplaces\/get-ready-to-sell-products-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Sell products online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you plan to sell your products online, through a marketplace or an online retailer, it is likely that they will ask you for a barcode, a GTIN or an EAN number. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These numbers come from GS1 and make it possible to identify, track and share information for products. Here we guide you step by step to get your products ready to sell online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. Become a GS1 customer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You need a unique number for each product you want to sell. If you only need to identify one product, a single number may be sufficient, but if you want to identify multiple products, you will need a GS1 Company prefix. You get this by becoming a customer<\/a> of GS1.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2. Use your company prefix<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GS1 Company Prefix<\/a> is your company’s unique number that unlocks the ability to use all GS1 standards and services. The prefix is licensed to your company and is part of all the numbers and barcodes you create. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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3. Create GTIN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The product’s unique number is often referred to as barcode number, but the correct name is Global Trade Item Number and abbreviated GTIN.<\/a> You create GTIN using your company prefix and our calculator<\/a> to calculate the last digit of the number – the check digit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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4<\/strong>. Find out about requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find out what the retailer requires in terms of labeling. If the retailer or marketplace is responsible for sending the product to the final consumer, you will most likely need to mark it with a barcode label so that it can be scanned and traced. See all GS1 barcodes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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5. Register the product<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now it’s time to register your unique product ID (GTIN) with the online retailer or marketplace. The registration and approval process can take different amounts of time for different retailers. While the information is being processed, you may sometimes receive a message that your GTIN is invalid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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6. Delivering to consumers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once you have registered with the retailer, you and the retailer will hopefully receive orders for your product and be able to deliver the product to your new consumers who will receive safer deliveries and reliable product information with unique numbers from GS1.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

How it works<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Your GS1 Company Prefix<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The length of your company prefix depends on the size of the number sequence you have ordered. You can use your prefix to create different types of numbers depending on whether you identify products, packaging, pallets, inventory, locations or something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the prefix is enabled, no other organization can use it to create numbers. It is your prefix that you use to uniquely identify your products so that they are ready to enter the trade.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"\"As a GS1 customer, you get a unique company prefix that is the basis for creating GTIN:s and identifying your products. In this example, a barcode and GTIN are shown with the company prefix highlighted in red.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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Unique identification of products<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Unique numbers on your products help you and your trading partners identify and track them throughout the supply chain. They also facilitate streamlining processes, for example automated order management and invoicing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GTINs are visually visible on most barcodes in the world. You don’t always need a barcode to sell a product online or in a marketplace, but GTINs are used to create barcodes if your products have to pass through an exit checkout. If you plan to sell a product in physical stores, it must have a barcode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Products that must have a unique ID<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You need a GTIN for each type of product or item that requires unique identification for pricing, order management or billing. For example, GTIN 7312345678916 could be a 330 ml bottle of a soft drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every time you produce a new type or variant of a product, you need to use a new GTIN to identify it and to avoid confusion \u2013 and this is especially helpful when retailers order from you. For example, a 330 ml bottle of light-soft drink may have GTIN 7312345679012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If your product is too small to be marked with the standard 13-digit barcode, you need to use a special 8-digit GTIN that generates a shorter barcode. These numbers are used only in exceptional cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will find more information about the rules for assigning GTIN to products in the next step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Understand the GTIN rules<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A new GTIN is always required for a new product, but often you also need to assign a new GTIN when you have made changes to a product, such as major changes to ingredients or if the size or color has changed.

The GS1 global website has GTIN rules that describe which changes to an item require a new GTIN and which changes are allowed without changing the GTIN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does your product need a new GTIN? Use GS1’s on-line tool<\/a> to guide you through the GTIN rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Create barcode labels<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You can either make barcode originals yourself or hire someone to do it for you, for example a packaging designer, advertising agency or commercial printer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have listed some suggestions for barcode vendors that we know follow our barcode size guide. You can of course use a printing service or similar, but please refer them to our size guide.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

See barcode suppliers ‘<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Create barcodes<\/h4>\n

Follow the steps to create numbers and barcodes using your…<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/a>\n <\/div>\n \n

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