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Why join GS1 Ireland?
Millions of Businesses Trust GS1 for their Barcodes & Product Identification
You might know GS1 for our barcodes which are scanned over 10 billion times daily. Our cost and time-saving system of standards allows our member organisations to focus on how to develop rather than how to organise their business.
Data is only valuable when it can be shared.
Only with the GS1 system and our barcodes, can you be assured that your products will be compliant with major retailers and distributors all over the world.
But we are more than just barcodes.
Our standards drive commerce, trust and safety across the globe. At GS1 Ireland, we work with thousands of Irish organisations of all sizes to use our Standards & Systems to grow and improve efficiency, safety, security, and sustainability.
Download your "Barcodes Made Easy" Guide which outlines the steps to register your business and products with GS1.
The GS1 System Creates Trusted Barcodes
GS1 standards form a common foundation for businesses by uniquely identifying, capturing and automatically sharing vital information about products, locations and assets.
Companies of all sizes benefit from using our system of standards; small craft producers as well as large national and international retailers and world-famous brands.
In Ireland, GS1 Ireland administers the GS1 system and is the only authorised source for GS1 barcode numbers and standards, no other organisation can guarantee your company's barcode and product data safety. When you join GS1 Ireland, you join a community of businesses whose product details are built on trusted standards to ensure it can be easily shared across their trading partners.
We are a non-profit, global organisation and our barcode standards are trusted by all local and international retailers and e-commerce providers.
More about GS1 Ireland membership
There are different GS1 Ireland membership licences depending upon the size of your product range, now and into the future. As there are a limited amount of numbers in each GTIN, the larger the company prefix, the fewer remaining digits there are for each product, size, variant, etc.
Longer company prefixes are more suitable for businesses with a limited range of products, as there are fewer remaining numbers in each GTIN. These artisan and craft producers may choose a GCP-11 licence, this has an eleven digit GCP, but only allows for 10 barcode numbers
Companies with larger product ranges typically choose shorter company prefixes. The GCP-9 licence is for 9 digit company prefix and enables up to 1,000 barcode numbers to be generated for products and outer cases.
As a member of GS1 Ireland, we will receive a unique company identifier, and with our range of tools and services, you can create trusted and secure barcode numbers and symbols for your products and shipping cases.
GS1 membership and identifiers will make your business more reputable and will allow you to get listings with major retailers and marketplaces.
You will also benefit from being a part of Ireland's largest authorised product data community, sharing best practice on managing change in retail, logistics and e-commerce.
GS1 manages a global number bank to ensure the integrity of supply chain product information. Each GS1 country office has its own start digits - the numbers at the start of each members Global Company prefix, and therefore each of their GTINs. Here in Ireland, our national prefix starts with 539. If a barcode is purchased from a cheap online re-seller, you have no guarantees of its' uniqueness or security and as the number will clearly not be an Irish GS1 number, your customers will not be able to fully trust your retail or shipping data.
The small savings obtained by buying from a rogue online barcode re-seller are often outweighed by the costs of missed retail listings, time consumed in rectifying product data, poorly managed recalls and damaged customer relationships.
Once we receive your completed online registration and payment we will process your application. We verify each member application to ensure the continued integrity of the barcode number system. Verification typically takes 24 hours.
You will need to supply some company information as part of your application (registered name, VAT & CRO number - or similar) in addition to having payment and contact details available.
Each GS1 Ireland receives access to our Barcode Manager tool. This is the safest and most secure way to manage your products barcode information. In Barcode Manager you can create, store and share GTIN and create barcode symbols for a large range of items from single consumer units that are sold at the retail point of sale, through to logistics and shipping units such as cases and pallets.
We also run barcode training workshops so that you and your team can get the most out of your barcodes and our numbering systems and standards.
We're here to help & support you. To learn more about how to get started contact us today.
the fact that it is all online is great, when you have your own business, your time is very limited, the fact that you can just log in, get your barcodes and away you go is very attractive
Kylie Magner
Magners Farm
