klo Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 Just curious to see who has a UPC code for their business. I have a man who wants to rep me and says he won't rep me without one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glazegyrl Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 a good question, i will be watching this post for info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairieannie Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 I do. I use Avery to generate the barcodes...free, and easy as pie! HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klo Posted July 24, 2005 Author Share Posted July 24, 2005 I do. I use Avery to generate the barcodes...free, and easy as pie! HTH I am talking about being registered, check this out to see what I mean www.uc-council.orgthis is how they can track products, find how made it, etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairieannie Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 LOL, sorry, can't help ya there! I barcode everything for inventory and practical purposes...I feel pretty dumb now Don't mind me..I'm just a hillbilly girl! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tess Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 I don't get it?!? What is the bar code for then. I went to the web-site, but nothing is in lamens terms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashlie K Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 Wow $750.00 membership fee for the first year?I think I will stick to the Avery when making an UPS code LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattwats Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 I contacted the UPC-code people and got quote for my business... You would have to have a different code for every product and every different version of that product, IE one code for each scent in each product (4 candles x 20 scents = 80 codes) and that's just candles. I would cost me $1,750 a year to maintain my UPC liscence ( about 275 codes) with them on top of the $750 signup fee and I think there was another fee to generat the UPC codes... You also have to follow VERY strick standards about the size, condition and type of label.Thought this might help.Matthew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinInOR Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 It's very expensive to get a legal bar code. For your own personal use you can print them all you want, but when you get out into the retail world ya gotta follow the rules like Matthew outlined. I think I figured it would cost me about $2K.Some POS systems allow a generic test manufacturing ID - you might ask if he has one of those available with some unused codes for you to use. Though that's not really legal - even these resellers who sell you bits and pieces of a manufacturing ID aren't really kosher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klo Posted July 25, 2005 Author Share Posted July 25, 2005 I contacted the UPC-code people and got quote for my business... You would have to have a different code for every product and every different version of that product, IE one code for each scent in each product (4 candles x 20 scents = 80 codes) and that's just candles. I would cost me $1,750 a year to maintain my UPC liscence ( about 275 codes) with them on top of the $750 signup fee and I think there was another fee to generat the UPC codes... You also have to follow VERY strick standards about the size, condition and type of label.Thought this might help.Matthewwhy were you looking into it? Did you have a vendor that required it? From what I understand larger businesses require this so I could be tracked if something went wrong. I guess thats how they do the recalls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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