Do You Need an EAN Barcode for Your Products? Here’s What to Know
If you are planning on selling your products online or through brick-and-mortar stores, there is a high chance that you have stumbled across numerous terms related to Product Barcode. These may sound quite confusing, like UPC, EAN, GTIN, SKU and more, but the question that almost every seller asks is: Do I even need one?
Where UPC and EAN actually come from
Every single barcode found in retail stores can be traced back to one source: GS1, a global coordinating office that operates a group of neutral not for profit organizations, all of which develop and maintain standards for barcodes and other supply chain technologies. GS1 provides every product with a Global Trade Item Number, or GTIN for short, a unique set of numbers that is then transformed by a barcode reader into its respective s...