Comments on: Barcoding for Small Businesses: The 2025 Guidehttps://www.inflowinventory.com/blog/the-ultimate-barcoding-guide/Mon, 29 Sep 2025 10:04:23 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2By: Unnati sharmahttps://www.inflowinventory.com/blog/the-ultimate-barcoding-guide#comment-64179Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:19:56 +0000https://www.inflowdebug.com/?p=40131#comment-64179This was a refreshing read! The superhero analogy made the role of product managers really relatable. Especially appreciated the reminder that success isn’t about feature count but solving real user problems. A great myth-busting post for anyone in tech.

]]>By: Jared Plumbhttps://www.inflowinventory.com/blog/the-ultimate-barcoding-guide#comment-58113Thu, 01 May 2025 15:04:18 +0000https://www.inflowdebug.com/?p=40131#comment-58113In reply to Craig Harper.

Hey Craig,

You can create a barcode for a sublocation within inFlow and then use the scan function as a “fast type” to input the sublocation field. I hope this helps.

Cheers,
Jared

]]>By: Craig Harperhttps://www.inflowinventory.com/blog/the-ultimate-barcoding-guide#comment-58040Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:42:00 +0000https://www.inflowdebug.com/?p=40131#comment-58040How do you assign a bar code to a sublocation so you can scan the location then the product?

]]>By: Jared Plumbhttps://www.inflowinventory.com/blog/the-ultimate-barcoding-guide#comment-25948Tue, 24 Oct 2023 17:41:47 +0000https://www.inflowdebug.com/?p=40131#comment-25948In reply to Marvyn.

Hey Marvyn,

Thanks for reading and for the kind words. From the sounds of your workflow our software inFlow would be a really great fit. With inFlow you would be able to create detailed product lists and include things like product name, SKU, description, barcode, cost, price, etc. We even included costing methods for your products. We even have an integration with Amazon.

We also have a fully integrated barcode system with a built in label designer so you can create labels for each of your products and print them out with ease. For keeping track of the flow of products we have purchase and sales orders.

We even have our own Smart Scanner and have been developing our own printer to go along with it. However, we don’t have automatic ASIN barcode lookup at the moment.

I would recommend reaching out to our sales team and going over your workflow with them. They can show you around our software and help you decide whether or not inFlow is right for you.

I hope this helps,
Jared

]]>By: Marvynhttps://www.inflowinventory.com/blog/the-ultimate-barcoding-guide#comment-25893Sat, 21 Oct 2023 21:48:51 +0000https://www.inflowdebug.com/?p=40131#comment-25893Hi Jared,
Thanks for preparing this article. Super helpful! My business needs are a bit different. I am buying surplus truckloads primarily from Amazon with 5000 items each load. There is no detailed manifest so upon receipt into our warehouse we need to prepare an inventory listing. My thinking was using a scanner to input the ASIN or UPC numbers into Excel and then we need to tediously lookup each number to provide descriptions. Once we have the list compiled we want to add the current retail price, our selling price both of which we want to print put onto a label for retail viewing. Finally, at check-out it would be great to scan the item for inventory control as well as memorializing the selling price for accounting purposes. I guess the bottom line is to eliminate as much labor as possible so any recommendations with respect to software, scanners and integration to accounting (some of which is mentioned above) would be appreciated. For example, are there programs that maintain up to date ASIN numbers and descriptions that we could input so when we scan it finds them in our system? Now we either go to Barcode lookup or search the ASIN on the Amazon website.

Thanks

]]>By: Jared Plumbhttps://www.inflowinventory.com/blog/the-ultimate-barcoding-guide#comment-20833Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:49:57 +0000https://www.inflowdebug.com/?p=40131#comment-20833In reply to Mark.

Hi Mark,

Thanks for reading! You can certainly use barcodes for tracking components like this. Depending on the software you’re using, the workflow may change. If you set up each department as a different location within your inventory system, you can easily track the inputs and outputs of each location. I recommend reaching out to our sales team and explaining your workflow to them. They could tell you for sure whether or not inFlow would be a good solution for your company, but from the sounds of it you’d be a great fit!

Cheers,
Jared

]]>By: Markhttps://www.inflowinventory.com/blog/the-ultimate-barcoding-guide#comment-20812Thu, 30 Mar 2023 17:22:10 +0000https://www.inflowdebug.com/?p=40131#comment-20812Hi I am wondering if this would work for my company. We are a midsize company that services our own equipment and use our general ledger accounting to charge supplies to different departments internally in the company. (( Example on one service we may use an 1157 oil filter and a 2056 hydraulic filter for department 102 and on another service use the same filters and want to charge it to department 99. would I be able to use the barcode off the oil filter and how would I tell the deference in the program for our accounting department ))

]]>By: Jared Plumbhttps://www.inflowinventory.com/blog/the-ultimate-barcoding-guide#comment-19246Thu, 09 Feb 2023 22:04:26 +0000https://www.inflowdebug.com/?p=40131#comment-19246In reply to Ray Manzanedo.

Hi Ray,

Thanks for reading. I’m not sure exactly what your labels look like, but we just released a label designer where you can create completely customizable labels. You could then print these labels with the label printer of your choosing (a Dymno for example). As for scanning, I would recommend the inFlow Smart Scanner. It’s a great wireless scanner with a dedicated built-in laser that can run inFlow directly.

I hope this helps!

Cheers,
Jared

]]>By: Ray Manzanedohttps://www.inflowinventory.com/blog/the-ultimate-barcoding-guide#comment-19239Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:51:02 +0000https://www.inflowdebug.com/?p=40131#comment-19239Hello, we are looking for a scanner/printer to duplicate the style of price labels we currently have. Is there a place I can send a picture of the labels? The labels we use have 7-10 different fields, plus the barcode. Is this something you all can direct me to the solution?
Thanks

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