Aussie Gardener review for Barcode Man: Label Printing

Nov. 23, 2022

Really the features in this app should be built into shopify, but since they are too lazy to add more functionality, we are lucky to have the team at Gookit come up with a great solution. Im sure lots of customers are using this to print barcode labels on their products which it will do very well, but for our situation I wanted a way to label our shelves in the packing warehouse with helpful labels to make it easy for staff restocking the shelves and for packers to pick the correct items. The solution was to buy 50mm magnet tape, cut a 150mm strip and then stick a good looking sticker from this app onto the magnet so we can move it if we need to adjust the stock location. The app allowed me to define the exact size of the labels I was using, Add formatted text Add a colour photo of the product automatically (it grabs the image from shopify) Add the products barcode (in case we need that in the future) Add a QR code with it linking to the shopify product page. (This means our staff that refill the shelves can whip out their phone, when they see a shelves stock is low, and scan the QR to instantly see the product page in shopify and if we have any more in stock in our bulk stock warehouse rather than annoying the warehouse manager asking if we have stock. I was also able to automatically add the products supplier name (vendor) Now label printers are usually only black on white but I wanted to have a colour photo of the product on the label as some of our staff are visual and need a colour photo. The solution was to purchase A4 sheets of labels and print on our colour office printer. This app even has a feature that you can select which label you are up to on the sheet. So if you have already used a few stickers on a sheet you can select the next available label on the sheet meaning no wastage of having to start a new sheet. Im terrible at learning new software but I was able to pick this one with ease and not even refer to the help screen it was so logical. Well done to the team and the smart person who designed this app. I'm very happy to recommend this one. I haven't needed this feature but you can make the QR code link to a custom url or a metafield from shopify. Improvements? The only other feature I can think of is being able to add divider lines or boxes on labels. At the time of writing I could add Text (with all the usual Formatting options) Image Barcode QR code. Im sure they will add that in the near future. Overall an excellent app.