Bar Code Printing Instructions:

Items to be sold at the Merchants' Village front checkout area must be labeled with a bar code printed by Merchants' Village.   Bar codes are not required for vendors who man their booths and who accept payment for items using their own in-booth POS system.

Please plan on at least 3 days for bar code orders to print.  

We have self serve computer terminals available to help you submit bar code orders in the proper format.  The bar code ordering application is also available here to download and use on your home computer (email us the completed order file, or bring it in to us on a USB flash drive).

To place an order for printed bar code labels to put on items in your booth, you will need the following information:

• Booth # and Password (for your first order, a booth # and password will be created).
• Item description and price for each individual label to be printed, along with the quantity of each individual label to be printed. 

Item descriptions can only be descriptions chosen from the list below, or numbers from 1-5000 .   Item numbers from 1-5000 can represent any specific or general type of item for which you want to track sales.  Assigning items does not add your item to any sort of Merchants' Village inventory database.  If you want to change a price for an inventory item, just print a new bar code sticker for it.

Our reporting system simply displays which item numbers/descriptions have been sold from each booth, from any day/time, to any day/time (along with sales prices, taxes, subtotals, totals, and other required info).  Each vendor is limited to 2 sales reports per day (please let us know if you need more).

Non-taxable items must be marked individually on each bar code label, using a special neon marker.   If you have a large quantity of non-taxable items to bar code, please organize them into a separate order, notify us clearly that the order is all non-taxable, and we will help mark each printed tag in the batch.

Labels cost 1 penny each, and are printed in minimum quantities of 30 (1 sheet).  The minimum cost per order is 32 cents (1 sheet of 30 labels, plus tax).  Discounts are available for large quantity orders.

More Information About Items:

The Merchants' Village bar code system allows item sales to be repesented in either of two ways:

• by item number, from 1-5000, assigned by vendors according to your own needs
• by description, from a list approximately 1500 generic item descriptions