Handling barcodes with zeros in front of them
- Peter Drill
Handling barcodes with zeros in front of them
Readysell has unlimited codes features we can handle multiple codes per product multiple quantities and also inner and outer codes.
Scanner can be set to standard mode or to EAN specifications meaning the will pad codes 7.9.10.12 with leading or trailing zeros to Australian standards 13 characters.
Readysell can be configured to accept bar codes with any number of leading or trailing zeros. We have tested this with a store running the Readysell program on their system and confirmed with them that all products scanned properly regardless of the incorrect zeros in the bar code.
The rules are as follows:-
- If a scanned bar code scanned exactly matches a bar code on file accept the bar code,
- Otherwise, for any barcode greater or equal to ten characters in length. If the ten characters entered can be found anywhere in any bar code then the system will accept the bar code.
For example
Barcode Scanned Result
1234567890 1234567890 Matches, exact
1234567890 01234567890 Matches, Ignore leading and trailing zeros
1234567890 001234567890 Matches, Ignore leading and trailing zeros
1234567890 000000001234567890 Matches, Ignore leading and trailing zeros
1234567890 0000000012345678900000 Matches, Ignore leading and trailing zeros
1234567 1234567 Matches, exact
1234567 01234567 Fails, Bar code less than 10 characters long.
So do not ignore leading and trailing zeros.