Our Favorite Memories review for Retail Barcode Labels
Nov. 18, 2025
The barcodes generated from this app use the last 8 numbers from the variant URL in Shopify so occasionally it creates duplicates. This wasn't a major problem when I had a small inventory. I would delete the new products with duplicate barcodes and recreate them (the only fix I'm aware of). Now since my catalog has expanded I'm regretting not going with a paid barcode generator as I get a lot of duplicates and changing to a new provider will break reporting and syncing with other platforms. It seems that this problem could be fixed by the developers if they added more characters to the barcode instead of only using 8 characters.
Hi there! Thank you so much for sharing information about this issue! Our Retail Barcode Labels Apps assigns barcodes to your products based on the last 8 digits of your product variant IDs and generally these are unique to each one. Even so, if a store has a very large number of products, there is a small chance that some of the variants can have the same 8 last digits, hence "duplicating a barcode" in such cases. However, that may or may not be what is at play for your store, so it might be no harm to reach out to us at https://shopify.link/vRn so we can double check for you, just in case it is a workflow issue that could be resolved and/or if we might be able to advise on a workaround. Thanks so much! - Natasha, Shopify Support
