Pallet Barcodes
When you ship products by pallet, you use pallet barcodes on the packaging. If you don’t ship by pallet, you might not need those barcodes—instead, you may require an ITF‑14 barcode for your cartons.
Larger retailers frequently require pallet barcodes—especially supermarkets or any company operating large distribution centers, such as McDonald’s.
Typically, you apply two types of barcodes to each pallet: a GS1‑128 barcode and an SSCC (Serial Shipping Container Code).
Sometimes you may need a new SSCC for a new pallet code, as you already have the GS128 barcode for that stock.
The GS128 barcode encodes multiple data, such as a product’s expiry dates, batch number, quantity, and EAN or UPC number.
The SSCC barcode is a unique number. Retailers use the SSCC to identify each pallet in their distribution centre or warehouse.
Images below show examples of GS128 (top) and SSCC (bottom)
Work out how many you need. Purchase the quantity you want. Let us know what infomation you want encoded including the barcode and carton number if requited. Email us this information or use this online form to input the data you want to be encoded. Once you have provided the required information, we will send the barcode images to you in 3 formats (png, svg and pdf formats). We can provide additional formats upon request.
| Quantity | Price per barcode |
| 1 | $ 30 |
| 2 | $ 25 |
| 3 | $ 20 |
| 4 + | $15 |
Application Identifiers (AI)
GS1 Application Identifiers (AIs) are numeric prefixes used in barcodes and EPC/RFID tags to define the meaning and format of encoded data elements.
Some of the most commonly used AIs are:
00 – SSCC
01 – GTIN
10 – Batch number
17 – Expiry date
37 – Number of Units (Count)