Bar code printing

[Tdc09]

I am not neccisarily wanting to start a business but we have 13 kids and we go through a ton of clothes. I am wanting to create scannable barcodes and somehow use our tablet during garage sales to scan and ring up (we have atleast 3 a year) my issue is I am not sure how to go about this can anyone point me in the right direction

[vangogh]

What kind of tablet do you have? There are bar code scanner apps for both iOS and Android. I also looked up inventory management software for both operating systems and each had results. I think the issue on your end will be entering all the stuff you want to sell into the system. Given these are used items, I'm guessing the original bar codes are long since gone. You might do better with an inventory management app, but then you'll have to enter the items.

Usually these apps are used for selling multiple numbers of the same items. I think they become less useful when every item is unique. Search for inventory management apps for whatever tablet you have. Each app should let you know what kind of information it needs to know about the items and then see which one works for you.

[Tdc09]

Yes they would be used I am just trying to enter in a generic "infants onesie $1.50 or girls 2t top 2.00l type of deal and print barcodes attach to clothes and be able to scan either with a phone or handheld scanner

[BNB]

Seems like overkill for a garage sale. Can't you just add up the total and charge their card on a paypal scanner? And that's if you are taking credit cards, I've never seen a garage sale do that, but it is 2016. Else you can certainly add up 5 shirts x $2.00 each. Sir, that will be $10.00. What am I missing here? Why barcodes?

[Harold Mansfield]

I agree that it sounds like more time and labor than it's worth. You can definitely get Square or Pay Pal mobile payments so that you can swipe cards and take payments from your mobile phones or tablets. That part is easy. Most times they send you the reader for free.

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/requesting-payments
https://squareup.com/
(https://squareup.com/)
But bar coding a simple garage sale? Seems like overkill unless you plan on making garage sales a business.

[Freelancier]

We've done a bunch of garage sales over the years as we moved and kids got bigger.

You don't want to barcode anything. You want the items to get sold and get gone. So you do deals as fast as you can and take cash for everything, because that's what the people will have. Cash is the only thing where you're reasonably sure they won't dispute the sale and leave you without both the merchandise and the money.

So... you're letting your ideas about what would be interesting interfere with closing as many sales as possible in the shortest possible time.