48 digit | 128 Barcodes for steak shop. Need help with inventory efficiencies.

Retail & Point of Sale
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Topic summary

A meat market owner is seeking to streamline their inventory process for individually barcoded steaks. Currently, they use 48-digit GS1-128 barcodes containing SKU (554499), weight in kilograms, and date information.

Current workflow:

  • Scan barcodes into Excel for data parsing
  • Manually copy/paste parsed data into Shopify import template
  • Import into Shopify

Goal: Find apps, services, or methods to scan labels directly into Shopify, eliminating manual Excel and copy/paste steps. The discussion remains open with no solutions proposed yet.

Summarized with AI on October 31. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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I have a meat market / ecommerce store selling individually barcoded steaks.

Each label contains a barcode seen here —(01)90047104554490(3102)000016(13)240617(21)000011691943–.

554499 Is the SKU

16 is the net KGS

24 09 09 is the date.

Right now I:

  • scan all these barcodes into a excel sheet which parses out the relevant data
  • Manually copy and paste the data and barcodes into a Shopify import template
  • Import them into shopify

I’m wondering if anyone knows of any apps or services or tricks that can help me scan each label directly into shopify and eliminate the manual steps.

Thank you so much for taking the time to help me with my challenge.