BarTender® Software: Design & Print Barcodes and Labels
The BarTender Free edition allows you to design and print professional labels, barcodes, and RFID tags. Additionally, this edition lets you test all the advanced features of the Professional, Automation, and Enterprise editions.
Design and Print Your Own Labels
When working in a warehouse, distribution centre, or manufacturing plant, you frequently need to create various labels and barcodes for each item that requires identification. Using BarTender label design software not only makes this task easier and faster, but it also helps you minimise labelling errors.
Easily and efficiently design labels, barcodes, cards, RFID tags, and more, and print them on any labelling or marking printer. Print with a single click from any browser or device, and monitor your printing system to track consumable levels and detect any print errors directly from the software.
Benefits from Minute One
Create
Design and print almost anything, including delivery notes and pallet labels.
Streamline data entry at the point of printing using customisable data-entry forms.
Consolidate designs with Intelligent TemplatesTM.
Automate
Print from any operating system, platform, device, or web browser.
Build sophisticated applications and automatically print from web service requests, data transactions, SDK requests, and more.
Manage
Centrally control and secure your entire labelling system.
Monitor print status in real time and view detailed system usage history.
Easily integrate with SAP and Oracle.
Comprehensive Labelling Software for Businesses of All Sizes
Organisations worldwide trust BarTender® software to improve security, efficiency, and regulatory compliance by optimising their labelling, marking, and printing processes.
The world's largest companies and hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises already rely on BarTender's capabilities to:
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Alert customers to potentially harmful food allergens
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Administer the correct medication to each patient at the right time
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Trace the origin of a foodborne illness
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Ensure a safe working environment when handling hazardous substances
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Improve shrinkage control and loss prevention in retail stores
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Accelerate the supply chain with interoperability and integrated enterprise planning
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Create accurate labels and documents, as well as eye-catching signage
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And much more...
Top-Rated Service
Tecnipesa is certified as a BarTender Premier Solutions Partner, the highest rating awarded by BarTender to its partners. This is the result of years of close collaboration and rewards our efforts to help our clients achieve the best possible results in label design.
Compare the 3 BarTender Editions
EDITION
PROFESSIONAL
The Professional Edition is ideal for departments and small businesses, offering an easy-to-use interface that allows you to create sophisticated label designs, RFID tags, and cards, and connect them to databases and spreadsheets.
EDITION
AUTOMATION
The Automation Edition is ideal for businesses where speed, reliability, and flexible integration with their own systems are key. This edition includes a powerful Process Builder to help simplify manual label creation processes.
EDITION
ENTERPRISE
The Enterprise Edition is ideal for companies that must comply with the most stringent labelling regulations or multi-site businesses that need control over label designs and printing.
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| Intelligent Templates™ Design versatile labels that adapt to each use case without creating numerous separate documents. |
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| Data Access: Read and write data from text files, databases, and Excel spreadsheets. |
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| Find and Print: Quickly find and select documents and data to print. |
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| RFID Encoding: For RFID labels, smart cards, and magnetic stripes. |
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| Integration Builder: Automatically print from another system or device in response to data transactions or SDK requests. |
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| Process Builder: Develop a custom printing procedure without programming knowledge. |
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| User Management and Permissions: Secure printing environment with user- and group-level permission management. |
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| Print Monitoring: Monitor print status in real time, view history, and track consumables. |
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| Mobile Printing: Print from any iOS or Android device. |
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| Location Management: Control all print jobs across each of your branch locations. |
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| API Access: Automatically print by connecting to the BarTender API (Web Service) or via TCP/IP. |
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| SAP and Oracle Certification: Print labels seamlessly from SAP and Oracle thanks to certified integrations. |
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| Centralised Administration: Manage the entire system, create a centralised template repository with version control, review approval workflows, implement SDKs, and much more. |
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What Is Included in the Free Version of BarTender and How to Use It
The BarTender Free Edition allows you to create and print professional labels using our exclusive Intelligent Templates™ and test advanced features from the Professional, Automation, and Enterprise editions. Documents printed with the free edition that use features from a paid edition will include a watermark indicating that a purchase is required.
Intelligent Templates to Streamline Work and Reduce Errors
Using BarTender Intelligent Templates, you can produce a wide variety of versatile label designs without needing to create a large number of separate documents. You can assign different parameters and instructions to labels for printing. Additionally, password-protecting documents allows you to prevent unauthorised edits.
Discover the features of the various BarTender product lines and see how they can solve the most demanding labelling, barcode, and other challenges in your workplace. If you are unsure which edition is right for you, contact us and our experts will help you choose the best solution for your needs.
Create, Automate, and Manage Labels, Barcodes, RFID Tags, and More
Advanced Card Design
BarTender allows you to design and print dual-sided cards, including smart card and magnetic stripe encoding. Intelligent templates help streamline your workflow, reduce errors, and deliver a professional finish.
Comprehensive Barcode Support
BarTender includes over 400 preformatted, ready-to-use barcode components, alongside 60 symbologies and full compliance with GS1 and other market labelling standards.
Secure Centralised Management
Control, manage, and secure label printing across multiple locations or continents from a single, centralised application. BarTender includes permission-based printing options, printer license grouping, job logging, system auditing, and more.
Full RFID Compatibility
BarTender offers full compatibility with the latest RFID tag types, including EPC (Electronic Product Code).
Comprehensive Data Capture During Printing
Design forms to capture data at the point of printing and write information back to SQL databases, send emails, or issue web service requests to other enterprise systems. BarTender also supports image and scale data capture.
Legendary Worldwide Technical Support
Our global offices and extensive online resources combine to provide excellent technical support for all BarTender editions 24 hours a day.
Connect Printing to Your Databases
Use data from spreadsheets, text files, and databases to minimise the need for manual data entry. The wizard provides a highly intuitive database connection experience, supporting SQL and Azure SQL, Oracle, SAP IDocs, and XML files. Do not have a database yet? Easily create your own with BarTender Data Builder.
Advanced Serialization
BarTender's flexible serialization allows you to create unique serial identifiers at configurable frequencies. Control the last used serial number by saving it directly to your BarTender document, a global BarTender data field, or even embedding the value in your own SQL database.
Sophisticated Integration and Processes
Link automated BarTender label printing processes with your existing systems, such as SAP, Oracle, Sage, Infor, HighJump, Epicor, and more. Create configurable workflows to automate repetitive operations and use the BarTender Process Builder as an alternative to ActiveX or Microsoft .NET Framework.
Customers using Bartender:
Labelling Software for All Applications and Businesses
BarTender leads the market with robust software capable of solving labelling challenges for businesses of all sizes, featuring a clear, easy-to-understand pricing structure and legendary support. BarTender has built a reputation for ease of use and robust capabilities as a leader in enterprise labelling. BarTender software is a trusted solution for a wide variety of industries, including supply chain, healthcare, food and beverage, retail, aerospace, and many more.
Supply Chain
BarTender enables standardised labelling processes across the entire supply chain, achieving the precision and efficiency required to deliver value in made-to-measure and Just-in-Time supply environments.
Chemical Industry
Chemical manufacturers, distributors, and importers worldwide rely on BarTender to help them comply with demanding rules and regulations relating to labelling, serialization, and safety.
Food and Beverage
BarTender helps simplify unique requirements for business-to-business interoperability, food labelling, and traceability that keep the global food supply chain secure.
Healthcare
BarTender is deployed in hospitals, pharmacies, laboratories, and clinics worldwide to achieve the precise tracking required in the healthcare supply chain and care for dependent individuals.
Medical Devices
Medical device manufacturers rely on BarTender for its reliability and security. With patient safety at stake under UDI regulations, there is no room for error.
Pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceutical manufacturers rely on BarTender to enable compliance with the extensive set of global prescription drug tracking and tracing regulations.
Aerospace
Precise tracking and maintenance of parts throughout aerospace and defence supply chains ensures regulatory compliance, improves safety, and provides protection against theft and counterfeit parts.
Retail
Retailers are provided with the barcode labels and RFID tools needed to keep pace with the standards, technologies, and demands of today's highly competitive retail environment.