Barcodes for Food
Australia Food Barcodes
Food products in Australia primarily use EAN-13 barcodes (which you can buy below). It is important that you buy a separate barcode number for each unique product- so if you have a packet of plain crackers and a packet of cheese flavoured crackers, you would need two barcodes. If you have those two flavours, and each flavour comes in either 200g or 400g packs, you would need 4 barcodes.
Once you buy barcodes from us they will be emailed to you automatically- we don’t need any product details from you such as price, description etc as this information is assigned by each retailer as they stock your product for the first time.
For more information, please see this guide: Your Guide to Food Product Barcodes
Our barcodes get cheaper the more you buy, so if you think you’ll have some more products coming out soon consider making a bulk purchase.
| Quantity | Price per Barcode |
| 1 | $ 59 |
| 2 | $ 54 each |
| 3-4 | $ 51 each |
| 5 + | $ 49 each |
| 10 + | $ 39 each |
| 15 + | $ 34 each |
| 20 + | $ 30 each |
| 30 + | $ 25 each |
| 40 + | $ 21 each |
| 50 + | $ 15 each |
| 75 + | $ 11 each |
| 100 + | |
| 500 + | $ 2.50 each |
| 1000 + | $ 1.50 each |
Important Information
A common myth we are asked about is whether the barcode number is related to place of origin of the product. While barcodes do have country code prefixes, these prefixes are not related to the country where the product was made- all it shows is the country the barcode is issued in. All our barcode numbers start with 06 or 07 (American prefix), and this is the same for every legitimate barcode reseller. Only GS1 Australia can provide numbers beginning with 93, which is their code for Australia. If you want to show your product is from Australia, simply print “Made in Australia” in an easily visible location.
Note that some food retailers in Australia have specific barcode requirements. Please see our Barcode Acceptance page for more information about this.
Larger chains like supermarkets are also very strict about barcode quality. Make sure you follow our Barcode Dimension and Positioning instructions carefully.
Related Products
Our customers buying barcodes for food products often also buy ITF-14 carton barcodes. These carton codes are mainly used by bigger retailers to track inwards goods, and you may be asked to supply your cartons with them. ITF codes are based off of the EAN-13 retail code of the product inside, and are not used at the checkout.