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How to Add Price Embedded Barcodes

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What is Embedded Barcodes

  • POS system allow users to use Embedded Barcode option.
  • An embedded barcode can be defined as the barcode which carries extra information of the product such as item price or quantity. Ex : Weighing vegetables.

Embedded Barcodes Types

  • There are two types of embedded barcodes.
  1. Weight based. Barcode consists of product code/ SKU, then the weight information.

Price based.

  1. Barcode consists of product code/ SKU and product price.

Barcode Profiles

  • There are two types of Barcode profiles as EAN 13 and UPC-A.

  • EAN 13 Setup ( total 13 digits in the barcode) Price-embedded barcodes are generally of the format 'AAXXXXXPPPDDC'.

  • Barcode starts with 2 digits 'AA' for prefix, then 5 digits "XXXXX" for product code, then 3 digits "PPP" as the price, then 2 digits "DD" as price decimals. Finally 1 digit 'C' as checksums.

  • UPC-A Setup ( total 12 digits in the barcode) Price-embedded barcodes are generally of the format 'AXXXXXPPPDDC'.

  • Barcode starts with 1 digit 'A' for prefix, then 5 digits "XXXXX" for product code, then 3 digits "PPP" as the price, then 2 digits "DD" as price decimals. Finally 1 digit 'C' as checksums.

How to Add Price Embedded Barcodes

  1. Login to POS Back Office Webportal
  2. Select “ Settings” from main menu
  3. Go to the “Features”
  4. Tick ON “Embedded Barcode” section
  5. Click ‘Save”

(Once you ON “Embedded Barcode”, it will appear as a sub-menu in the Settings section)

  1. Click “Embedded Barcodes” from sub-menu
  2. Click "Add New"
  3. Select a "Barcode type" as Price Embedded
  4. Enter correct digits

(Set the PLU value to 0 or empty if your product codes have 5 digits)

  1. Tick ON “status”
  2. Click Save

Note:

**Set the PLU value to 0 if your product codes have 5 digits.**If your product codes have less than 5 digits, make sure to configure the PLU value correctly, based on the number of digits in your product codes.

How to Add Price Embedded Barcodes

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  1. How to add weight-embedded barcodes.

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