ITF-14 Carton Codes
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Sample ITF-14 Carton Code
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ITF-14 Codes are 14-digit barcodes that go on the delivery containers for your retail products (they are based on the product’s EAN-13 barcode number). We will send your Carton Code images to you via email in 4 different formats (jpeg, png, svg & pdf). You can then choose the format you prefer, and print your Carton Code onto the delivery box.
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, whether they are being sold invidually or in bulk).
How to use an ITF-14 Carton Code:
Example Number One:
If you want to deliver tins of tomatoes to supermarkets (and each tin is to be sold individually once in the supermarket), then you will need:
1) One EAN-13 barcode (eg. ‘0123456789012’*) to go onto each of the tins; and
2) One ITF-14 Carton Code (based on your EAN barcode – ie. ‘10123456789019’*) to be printed onto the delivery cartons.
* FYI: to turn an EAN-13 number into an ITF-14 number, a digit (usually a “1”) is added to the start of the EAN-13 number, and then the checksum digit (the last digit) is re-calculated.
Example Number Two:
If your tins of tomatoes were to be sold in the supermarkets both as a) individual tins and as b) 6-packs of tins, then you would need:
1) Two separate EAN-13 barcodes (one for the tins being sold individually, and the other for the 6-packs of tins); and
2) Two ITF-14 Carton Codes (one based on each of the EAN barcode numbers). One Carton Code would be printed onto the delivery box that contained the individual tins; and the other would be printed onto the delivery box that contained the 6-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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