Carton Barcodes
(ITF-14 Barcodes)
ITF-14 barcodes are 14-digit barcodes that go on the outer shipping cartons or delivery boxes that contain your retail products. ITF-14 barcodes are sometimes called Shipping Container Codes (SCC-14), Carton Codes, or GTIN-14 barcodes. Your retailer will scan the ITF-14 barcode on each shipping carton when it comes into their warehouse. The ITF-14 barcode will tell them how many units of your product are contained in each shipping carton (e.g. 24 cans of baked beans). This information will then be recorded in its inventory management or a logistics system to track what stock is in its warehouse. The ITF-14 barcodes are usually created from the barcode number on the box’s retail product (the EAN-13 or UPC number). Up to 10 different ITF-14 barcodes can be created from one EAN-13 or UPC number.
If you need ITF-14 Barcodes, please order them below. Please enter your EAN-13 or UPC-A barcode numbers into the “enter your barcode number(s) here” box when you get to the Checkout Page. The ITF-14 Carton Code images will be automatically created (based on your EAN-13 or UPC-A number) and emailed straight away.
Which ITF-14 Carton Code goes with which EAN-13 barcode?
The easy way to tell which carton code goes with EAN is to look at your EAN numbers. Ignore the last digit (13th digit) as that is a checksum of all the other numbers. Look at the last 3 digits. You will see they are the same on the EAN as the ITF – just the ITF has a 1 at the front.
For example, EAN 0799439079083 has ending checksum digit 3. Ignore this last digit; the barcode ends at 908. Its corresponding ITF would also end 908 and then have a check-digit added at the end. It has a 1 at the front, so it would be 1079943907908x (where x is the check-digit), and in this case, the check-digit is 0, so the final number is 10799439079080. Note, when our automation produces the barcode images, it includes the check-digit in the image but leaves it out of the file name – so in this example, the images would be named 1079943907908.