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title: UPC and Barcode Requirements
description: Guidelines for inventory control operations
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# UPC and Barcode Requirements

## Guidelines for inventory control operations

Deliverzen recommends placing barcodes for every product. Barcodes enable our warehouse management systems to accurately identify products. We use barcodes during receiving, storing, picking, packing, and shipping. If your products do not have Barcodes, Deliverzen is not liable or responsible for meeting any Service Level Agreement standards or requirements.

**Acceptable Sizes:**

Barcodes must have a minimum height of 0.25 inches

The barcodes below are widely accepted and are the only barcodes acceptable by Deliverzen warehouse management systems.

 

Note - Deliverzen recommends you use a 5160 barcode template when producing barcodes for your products.

| Code-128 Typically used on shipping cartons or serial numbers. | ![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/iARsbZe7I8wTrfq4mhGorIdQIFO5ay4d0Zc6TZhbU2ziUbQSQg8dXYtFQfB4xJDH4Apb0kAt_I0gcN_CC_L-fnk_mC3IGjGKJX2HD4j0g5vEMvSyJsS_qJvRJ34CjsVtA-EKplLcMHRoQ9xSjIZymHk) |
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| Code-39 | ![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/4EyrWVb8wEfAvoymjQh2mdjGYi7L3PaaxxVXRVijcICGLQczt6NeIVxNv7LgxFJ8jQuU1AZ351NrMnhFLfmzuGsHWXFjX2VL9l1MdP7Zib0ls0pCYZJnXhNgazIiPTN1ta6f91ez-27f9M083XOZW6g) |
| UPC-A Used for item identification in the USA and Canada. | ![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/-59O5psRQ0lVuBWWqyZN6yEZaOW6J6P_mMoKa1jxpfykWLP5IUyOUdyaPX1vc1xMaOUn60tOZ47KoZ2vzkwuYgc8Qg1P4BbkLpHJDpL3Azi7QsuS87VKkpA1y-F-lrLBMkasLQUZRa9mrCLAGdAPfM4) |
| EAN8  Used for item identification in the USA and Canada. |   ![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/VEAQM-OiDLgjCYKhg223Ghv60rca-6Dt1BRYiw1FMcay8NgNvX27R746MhBTJxt92r-OVm7IcI2wHdZTL6t5xNpTnkvz3QQ95Ra1Xj4h-hn4-tw1fX58g2_zXtJJir9wKJd9ScmRuf6KS_hgVPblL2E) |
| EAN13 Used for item identification in the USA and Canada. | ![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/Ap8nFfm0y4AtWvP545CjqwxaUK_CuSg1tzQKp5OS85OM-sWbYq0saVklLBNk9zuZEeKY-0uNoUYo2L1p7UNRVJp1uA4rwpxMZ6q7ONUvQ5Sp3MMd5ZZTxBvWBWot3zzT3CkEkR1Wc4jj2FkgKkTMN84) |
| UPC-E  Used for item identification in the USA and Canada |   ![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/5n9i5fLFin1tXfJi_s8xx07-d9DIjDFzVdVbNPsWgTvcIEXJEehOOoBIMv5tssm9PlimieFTsQ9qIXkv9JbKgF1jzjRtcHyjyMFLIhTXZKaezD8_2ccXAEc3znxsD8PFX3YDiNtIcocAhowtRZ_gorE) |
| Code-11 Used for item identification, primarily with electronics | ![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/ISG8euG-jvYCFiyM--8nguTVxWnUhSE3rGjYAuqxXsugySK5pTPT1y6BaC0RWp7xg76cBEENsqhZ0PLz557P-Wsi9fVL_Wfm8SxQD7mZrHfn1nvEKFaMPkCfR9VytDN9hE0FjORX0uf-rD7u4c2oyYQ) |
| SCC-14 Used for carton identification as a way to distinguish from the actual contents (UPC) inside of the box. |   ![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/__u1tD1oBhF3RO8VyxbmQXoUvf2cfaSNHm6tqGpt1xmoim5mol-GQ4I7Tx73l29rP8BwsmXGj641iAekHvtyhx1R74QSymFh3kSWDoQTmudDAKHvkrzc9GVwknN1nhhtMtkINRLsoJnuo1__QSE5bRU) |
| EAN-14  Used for carton identification as a way to distinguish from the actual contents (UPC) inside of the box. | ![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/NHJ_yIY4BaEB3FtGDloeYZ6-COyO8V40KX7dvObqggl6rzRIAE6DLc6cQ7g9JFkGwlmGhPBp5nH1YdgkZYJmBWY3G8Jo6MS_w6UCQFmkmeIXqW3cqjKxgMQ3GdpKGe-YgfrbaoEdG-BC3W0Hqqm8QQE) |

 

Please note, our warehouse management system CANNOT accept the following:

- Special characters in barcodes.
- Requests from customers to modification of the scanning process
- Any other cases where the output is not a single line of information that is clearly visible.

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