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No sign-up.","Free \u003Cspan class=\"kw-swipe-d\">EAN-13 barcode generator\u003C/span>",[16,17],"tools-bulk-barcode-generator",{"default-mode":18,"default-symbology":19},"single","EAN13",[21,22],"essential-call-to-action-section",{":primaryButton":23,"subtitle":24,"title":25,"className":26},"{\"text\":\"Get Free Asset Management\",\"url\":\"/free-asset-tracking\"}","UNIO24 tracks what the label goes on — equipment, tools, assets, materials, inventory. Each item gets a full record: maintenance history, current location, stock levels and availability, who has it. Scan the tag with any phone.","Labeling something physical?",[27],"cta-tight-bottom",[29,30,32],"essential-content-section",{"anchorId":31},"ean-13-format",[33,34,36,40,54],"template",{"v-slot:description":35},"",[37,38,39],"p",{},"A misconception first, because it decides arguments: the first digits of an EAN-13 do not tell you where a product was made. The prefix identifies which national GS1 organization issued the company its number range — a firm registered through GS1 Germany can manufacture in Vietnam and the code still opens with 400–440. Plenty of \"check the barcode to see the country\" advice circulates; it's reading a field that was never about geography.",[37,41,42,43,47,48,53],{},"Structurally, EAN-13 is a GTIN-13: twelve digits of identity plus a mod-10 check digit, and that check digit is the part people get wrong by hand. Type 12 digits here and the thirteenth is computed; paste all 13 and it's verified, with a row error when the math disagrees. The North American cousin, UPC-A, is the same numbering pool one digit shorter — an EAN-13 that starts with 0 ",[44,45,46],"em",{},"is"," a UPC-A, and modern point-of-sale systems scan both interchangeably. For UPC-A and its compressed UPC-E variant specifically, the ",[49,50,52],"a",{"href":51},"/tools/upc-barcode-generator","UPC generator"," handles the conversions.",[37,55,56],{},"The honest boundary of any EAN-13 generator, this one included: it renders whatever digits you give it, and rendering isn't ownership. Numbers that go through a retail checkout must be licensed from GS1 — a made-up code will collide with someone else's product in the retailer's catalog, and the delisting conversation that follows is not fun. Where a free generator is exactly right: proofing artwork before the print run, internal SKUs for your own storeroom that never leave the building, and testing that your scanner setup reads what your label printer produces.",[58,59],"essential-related-barcode-tools-section",{},[61,62],"essential-faq-section",{":contactLink":63,":faqs":64,"description":65,"title":66},"{\"text\":\"Managing stock behind those codes?\",\"callActionText\":\"Talk to sales\",\"url\":\"/contacts\"}","[{\"title\":\"Numbers & printing\",\"items\":[{\"question\":\"Should I type 12 digits or 13?\",\"answer\":\"Either. Twelve digits get the check digit computed and appended; thirteen get verified, and a wrong final digit flags the row instead of rendering a code that scanners will read as a different product.\"},{\"question\":\"Can I invent an EAN-13 for a product I sell?\",\"answer\":\"For your own shelves and systems — yes, nobody checks. For any external retailer — no: the number space is licensed through GS1, and an invented code can collide with a real product in their catalog. Get a company prefix from GS1, then generate your codes from it here.\"},{\"question\":\"What size can an EAN-13 shrink to and still scan?\",\"answer\":\"The nominal symbol is 37.3 × 25.9 mm; the spec allows scaling between 80% and 200%. Below 80% you're gambling on the scanner and print quality — and cutting the height (a common trick to fit packaging) hurts more than cutting width, because angled checkout scanners need those tall bars.\"}]}]","Asked mostly at the moment the printer and the checkout disagree.","EAN-13 — common questions",[29,68,70],{"anchorId":69},"ean-13-privacy",[33,71,72,75],{"v-slot:description":35},[37,73,74],{},"Rendering happens in your browser; the ZIP and PDF export libraries load only on download, and nothing you type reaches a server.",[37,76,77,78,82],{},"If the codes mark stock you keep rather than products you sell, ",[49,79,81],{"href":80},"/product/inventory-management","inventory management in UNIO24"," reads them from any phone — stock levels, locations, and movement history behind every scan.",[21,84],{":primaryButton":85,"subtitle":86,"title":87,":secondaryButton":88},"{\"text\":\"Start for Free\",\"url\":\"https://my.unio24.com/signup?utm_source=unio24-site&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tools&utm_content=tools-ean-13-barcode-generator\"}","UNIO24 turns barcodes into a live inventory — scan to receive, issue, and count, with stock levels and history on every item. 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