Our Variable Price Barcode Parser app allows Clover to understand price embedded barcodes based on the EAN-13 or UPC-12 standard: these barcodes usually come out of label-printing scales, such as those produced by CAS and Tor-rey.

This app will have no effect on 12-digit product codes that can be found on cereal boxes and other factory-packaged goods.

Gift cards, credit cards, and membership cards won’t be affected since the barcode doesn’t change when used, and therefore a much more complicated system needs to be used to process these transactions.

To allow the Variable Price Barcode Parser to function, you need to enter into the inventory app and add the product name and its 6-digit product code that appears within the first half of the barcode.

6-digit product code: this is the same number that you enter into your scale when setting up a new item within the inventory. For example, if your product code is 42, the scale will fill in the rest of the digits with other stuff, making the product code 050425. If a merchant already has product codes set up with shorter numbers, you can likely make a spreadsheet that will convert the shorter numbers to 6-digit codes based off of the format of the barcode that you print.