How to use barcode printer with sambapos?

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Hi everyone,

I would like to use sambapos for my retail shop,
I have one zebra printer for printing barcodes for my products.
How to print barcodes using sambapos.
Thanks.

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We dont have access to the barcode field to do what you want. Youll need to add a custom tag and call it barcode and fill the barcode in there

You can then use automation to attempt to print barcodes for your products using a ticket template

Ive not attempted this yet so dont know how doable it is

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Unless you used SQL report expression to pull but don’t use barcodes so never even looked at where barcode is stored and probably not best way to do it.

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See, I am not talking about printing barcodes on tickets or reports.
Some of my products/ Items does not have its own barcodes, so I want to create barcodes for them and it should printed with some barcode printer.

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Sambapos is restaurant POS, it can function as retail but it’s really for restaurant. Printing Barcode is possible using printer template and a label printer but you would have to manually edit the template to match each item Barcode every time you print one. It would be very labor intensive.

Perhaps @Emre could give us a printer tag for the items Barcode field? Or maybe a custom report tag even better.

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There is a Printer Tag for Barcode Field as shown in the Product properties…

<BAR>{BARCODE}

You could even use a Custom Product Tag if you want (ie. “MYBCODE”), and use that Tag in the same manner via Ticket Printing:

<BAR>{ITEM TAG:MYBCODE}

But those are for Printing on Tickets, not for making labels for your Inventory, which is what I guess you are wanting. Inventory does not have a Barcode field, nor any other Tag support for that matter, so even if you develop an Inventory Report, there are no fields like Barcode to put in your Report.

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Thanks for your Help

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I meant a tag for the Barcode portion of product.

If we had a Custom Report Tag for this you could create a Report Layout that you in theory could manipulate to print on label printer. It wouldn’t be simple task…but seems possible.

EDIT: Just saw your post Q lol. I wasn’t aware of that tag.

I am up way too early this morning need to let my brain warm up lol. I think it all boils down to the fact that this is a Restaurant POS that happens to have features that lets you run it for Retail but its focus is Restaurant as a result we wont see many Retail focused features purposely added.

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@Khaleel_Rasakh there was a previous topic about printing barcode labels for products. You can take a look here and probably setup something that would work for your needs:

I added some extra insight to another post about this as well