Which barcode symbologies does AWRA OpsHub generate?

Two. Code 128-B for linear barcodes on printed labels, and QR for anything a phone camera should read. Both are drawn as vector SVG, so a label stays sharp at any print size, and both are also available as PNG and as a data URI for embedding in a document.

What can I put a code on?

Fourteen record types: items, assets, purchase orders, RFQs, quotations, procurement requests, stock transfers, adjustments, invoices, POS sales, customers, locations, warehouses and cash drawers.

Does scanning only open the record?

Opening is one of forty-two actions. A scan resolves the record and then offers what you can do with it there and then — receive a purchase order, count a location, check an asset out, record a payment, approve a transfer, print a receipt. Thirteen of the fourteen types carry an action menu on the scan.

Do I need a hardware scanner?

A phone camera is enough, through the mobile app. A USB or Bluetooth scanner works too and behaves as a keyboard, so it types the code into whichever field has focus.

Can I print a sheet of labels at once?

Yes. Labels print in bulk from the item and asset registers, laid out for a standard label sheet, so a delivery can be labelled in one pass rather than one record at a time.

What if an item already has a manufacturer barcode?

Use it. A code is stored as an identifier on the record rather than generated only by us, so an existing EAN or UPC on the packaging is scannable as soon as it is on the item. Generated codes are for the things that arrive without one.

Scan & act

Put a code on it.
Then do the work
without typing.

Every record here can carry a barcode or a QR. Scanning one does not just find it — it opens what you can do with it, on the spot. Receive the order. Count the shelf. Check the laptop out. Approve the transfer. Take the payment.

Record types

Scan actions

Symbologies

Item label

Ceiling fan, 56 in

Nairobi · Rack D · Shelf 3

AWRA-ITM-00417

Both codes above are real and drawn by the same service that prints your labels. Point a phone at the QR.

Sheet 01 — Ink

Two codes, different jobs.

Both are drawn as vector, so a label is as sharp on a 30 mm sticker as on an A4 sheet, and both come out as SVG, PNG or an embeddable data URI.

Linear

Code 128-B

For printed labels

RACK-D-SHELF-03

The workhorse for shelf edges, bin fronts and asset plates. It encodes the full keyboard, reads fast on a cheap laser scanner, and prints legibly at small heights — which is what you want on a label that has to fit on the edge of a shelf.

Worth knowing

A linear barcode is bars on nothing — it has no background of its own. It needs a light plate behind it to scan, which is why every code in the product is drawn on one rather than on whatever colour the page happens to be.

Matrix

QR

For phone cameras

Holds far more than a linear code and survives a smudge, a crease and a bad angle, because it carries its own error correction. It is what goes on a document, a gate pass or an asset a person will scan with the phone already in their hand.

Worth knowing

A QR carries its own white background, so it survives being dropped onto any surface. That is the one meaningful difference from the linear code beside it.

Sheet 02 — Stock

14 things that carry a code.

Not just stock. A purchase order, a cash drawer, a shelf and a customer are all scannable records, and each one knows what can be done to it.