How can I make a Shipping Barcode

to print out the order number or customer reference

[Roxster]

Is there a product or way to dynamically display a barcode on a customer invoice dynamically when the invoice is shown and printed from a web browser? We use a windows server and asp.net.

The main use is for shipping orders. The idea is to scan the barcode with the package on the scale and the Shipping fields are populated with the customers data. Currently we type in the order number which populates shipping info but the scanner may prevent some user errors.

[Tastatura]

There are bunch of barcoding software on the market (use your favorite search engine to find it). What you want is definitely possible, however it's hard to give you more specific advice without knowing your workflow.

[Roxster]

I have barcode software, but it prints barcodes one at a time and within its own program for part of a label.

I want to know if there is a way to print/display the barcode on an invoice shown that I print or view online. I want the barcode to represent an order number and display it on the fly without recreating it on another program. Unless the program shows the barcode on internet explorer.

[Tastatura]

If I am understanding you correctly, you can definitively do that (something a la UPS shipping labels). I haven't looked at barcode sw in a while, so I don't know what's new on the market...In a nutshell what you want is a barcode sw that has some sort of API ( define: Application Programming Interface [google.com]), such that when you enter (customer?) info, from web browser or other input software you might be using, it will interface with barcode SW and generate barcode based on that data. Most likely there will be some programming involved, or at least configuration settings, but type of API you need is dependent on capabilities of current system(s) you have. Or in plain English - can your current system talk to other programs, and if so how (that's where API part comes in)

[Roxster]

The UPS barcode label is easy, UPS does it with there own program. When shipping I want to scan a barcode to prevent having to type in the customer order number to populate the shipping fields like First name, last name, email etc.

Right now my API interfaces with UPS. I puch in the order number and hit enter and the package is almost done shipping. I want to save a guy from having to punch the order number into UPS. UPS already has an option to read from the barcode or manually enter the order number. (order ID, reference number)

I just looked up something unique. There is a company that sells barcode fonts. Is that a good start?

Thank you for the replies.

[Tastatura]

I want to save a guy from having to punch the order number into UPS.

ok, let me see if I understand your workflow:
- you already have printed barcode (which contains order number)
- you want to enter that number to a field on UPS's web page

If so that's really easy - get a barcode scanner and plug it into your computer. Barcode scanner is 'glorified' input device (like keyboard for example). Simplest way to do this is to point a mouse to the order number field on UPS's web page (and perhaps click in the field so that it gets focus) and then use barcode scanner and scan the barcode. Order number should be in there now as if you typed it with the keyboard.

[Roxster]

ok, let me see if I understand your workflow:
- you already have printed barcode (which contains order number)
- you want to enter that number to a field on UPS's web page

part 1=no, that is the part I need a little help with. My programmer said there is software to do that but he never ran into that yet. I want the printed bar code to show up on all my invoices.
part 2=yes!