barocde

Barcode for product

MinPOS support both types of barcode: UPC and EAN. Default is EAN, if you want to change from EAN to UPC barcode you can go to "Configuration" > "System Options" > check at "Switch to UPC Barcodes"

To setup barcode, go to "Products" > "Products", in textbox Barcode enter the numeric characters (If you want to use letter characters, please chose barcode types is "CODE128")

In Sales screen, you can find product by barcode scanner or input barcode by keyboard (Then press enter)

Using barcode for electronic scales
This guide will help you create barcode of product in scales and in MinPOS

1. EAN barcode

Please use EAN13 barcode
Barcode need start with "2" character or "02" string.
MinPOS will find product by barcode starts from the 3rd character and length of it is 6 characters.

Example of barcode structure:

Prefix	Product_code	Price_or_Weight
PPP	CCCCCC	WWWWW

Product code "CCCCCC" in MinPOS and in barcode of scale need match

Get product price or product weight by "PPP" and "WWWWW":
If PPP start with:

• 02: The "WWWWW" string is total product PRICE => Position of decimal like WWW.WW
• 20: The same as "02"
• 21: The "WWWWW" string is total product PRICE => Position of decimal like WW.WWW

• 22: The "WWWWW" string is total product PRICE => Position of decimal like WWWW.W

• 23: The "WWWWW" string is total product WEIGHT => Position of decimal like WW.WWW

• 24: The "WWWWW" string is total product WEIGHT => Position of decimal like WWW.WW
• 25: The "WWWWW" string is total product WEIGHT => Position of decimal like WWWW.W

2. UPC barcode

Barcode need start with "2" character, code lenght is 12 digit and code type is "UPC"
MinPOS will find product by barcode with 7 first characters.
Example of barcode structure:

Identifier	Prod	State	Cost	CheckCode
I	PPPPP	S	CCCC	K
1	23456	7	8901	2

Product code "IPPPPPS" in MinPOS and in barcode of scale need match
The product weight will be set by CC.CC (ex: 89.01 kg)

Barcode for Customer

Create Card ID of customter:
The barcode string start with "c" or "C" character.