Centralized, robust, and secure
BarTender label management software is ideal for businesses that operate in regulated industries or span multiple locations and need to control design and printing throughout the organization.
BarTender Software provides comprehensive enterprise-wide printing with centralized label management. Our robust solution streamlines your operations with workflow orchestration and revision control, auditing, and flexible printing. Always-on high availability and added security provide the ultimate level of confidence.
Proven to deliver
Having the right labeling system in place — one that is secure, proven, automated, and fully integrated with your existing workflows — means greater cost savings and efficiency for your business. That’s why businesses of all sizes have trusted BarTender Software for their mission-critical labeling for over 30 years.
Easily generate consistent barcode labels and RFID tags with intuitive design tools anyone can use – regardless of proficiency. The dynamically updated template library helps you manage accuracy and compliance, whether you design your own label or use one of our predefined label templates.
BarTender streamlines your workflow by enabling printing directly at the source of work from any browser or mobile device, or through the BarTender Mobile App, all while reducing IT workload with driverless remote printing. With the industry’s largest library of over 10,000 printer drivers, we make it easy to print wherever it’s most convenient.
BarTender supports the latest barcode and labeling standards, including GS1, RFID, UDI, GHS, FDA, and more. With graphical label design and approval workflows, you control label quality and compliance while increasing team productivity.
Scale and automate your operations by connecting your mission-critical labeling to all your back-end data sources. BarTender streamlines your entire labeling workflow by integrating to any business system or application using the method that best fits your needs, including the industry’s only REST API.
Choose the BarTender edition that’s right for you
Design and print barcode labels in minutes
BarTender Starter Edition is a right-out-the-box solution providing basic business label design and printing tools, along with printing access to unlimited printers from a single user. Get up and running in minutes!
Easily design industry-compliant labels
- Start designing label templates quickly with easy-to-use label design tools that require minimal training
- Ensure compliance with the latest barcode and labeling standards by leveraging any of our dynamically updated, pre-built label templates – 400+ templates available
- Choose from over 100 1D and 2D symbologies based on over a dozen standards
Print to unlimited printers
- Simplify your printer management and user access
- Print to unlimited printers from a single user on a single PC
- Leverage the industry’s largest printer driver library for labeling, marking, and coding with over 10,000 supported printer drivers
Dynamic database connectivity that enables digital intelligence
Simplify your label template management, mobilize your label printing workforce, and increase label accuracy. BarTender Professional Edition combines your labeling with your external data to drive greater accuracy and efficiency across your labeling workflow.
Smarter labeling, smarter workflows
- Create dynamic templates that change label content based on data to eliminate the need for managing hundreds of label templates
- Select and print the right data every time by connecting your label templates to over 20 supported databases and file types
- Easily implement RFID by encoding inlays as easily as adding a barcode to your label template – includes support for smart cards and magnetic stripe cards
Increase label printing efficiency
- Print anywhere, anytime from any browser or mobile device that your teams use every day without a local client or app install
- Standardize data capture with accessible data entry forms to minimize print operator errors
- Leverage the industry’s largest printer driver library for labeling, marking, and coding with over 10,000 supported printer drivers
Simplify complex labeling operations
“Smart” label templates
- Set conditions that specify when objects, layers, or entire templates are printed
- Modify the appearance of certain objects on a label template including the object’s color, font, position, and border
- Automatically hide text on a label template based on specified conditions
Advanced security and monitoring
- Prevent unauthorized users from accessing specific label documents with password protection
- Assign permissions to applications and functions to specific users and groups
- Monitor the status of your printers and print jobs to quickly resolve errors
Extensive support for the latest barcode standards
- Ensure compliance with support for the latest barcode and labeling standards including GS1, UDI, GHS, FDA, and more
- Easily adapt to new regulatory mandates with the online template library, containing hundreds of pre-built templates – updated instantly to the latest industry standards and regulations
Advanced serialization
- Create serial numbers using alphanumeric, hexadecimal, or custom sequencing patterns
- Configure SQL-based databases to record serial numbers generated by BarTender or maintain a record of which database records have printed
- Specify data validation rules and automatically correct data or issue warnings
Available Workstation licensing
- Print to unlimited printers from a single user on a single PC
Manage by the number of users instead of number of printers
Support for lower edition capabilities
- Includes all features and capabilities available in the Starter Edition
Save time and streamline workflows with flexible, automated labeling
BarTender Automation Edition helps teams reclaim wasted time and resources on unnecessary, manual steps in their labeling operations. Seamlessly integrate your business systems and applications to automate your label printing workflow, optimize current processes, and create new ones.
Automate your labeling workflow
- Integrate with any business system or application including SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, Sage, Infor, Körber, Epicor, NetSuite, and more
- Build custom integrations that best fit your labeling environment using advanced integration methodologies including BarTender REST API and pre-built data connectors
- Automate repetitive labeling tasks, such as printing and file management, without any programming required
Increase label printing efficiency
- Quickly locate and reprint previously printed labels without needing to reconfigure settings or access the original data source
- Create dynamic templates that change label content with data-driven automation rules to eliminate the need for managing hundreds of label templates
- Leverage Intelligent Forms to initiate automated print-time processes and other actions based on user input and events
Powerful integrations for efficient automated printing
No-code process automation
- Create new business processes and support existing ones with comprehensive integration methods and actions – no coding or programming required
- Design templates for printers and terminals that merge user input information into the final printed output
“Smart” label templates
- Set conditions that specify when objects, layers, or entire templates are printed
- Modify the appearance of certain objects on a label template including the object’s color, font, position, and border
- Automatically hide text on a label template based on specified conditions
Advanced security and monitoring
- Prevent unauthorized users from accessing specific label documents with password protection
- Assign permissions to applications and functions to specific users and groups
Monitor the status of your printers and print jobs to quickly resolve errors
Broad database support
- Connect label documents to over 20 supported databases and file types including Microsoft, Oracle, NetSuite, SAP, Firebird, IBM, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgresSQL, and more
- Build and manage your own database without external databases
- Automatically source data and images from database or external files for printing
- Create your own database tables that travel with your BarTender document designs
Anywhere, anytime printing
- Print from any operating system on the devices your teams use every day without a local client or app install
- Secure your label printing with TSL/encryption, role-based user access, online approvals to mitigate unauthorized print runs
- Reduce label printing steps with driverless remote printing – no printer driver installation needed to network and off-network printers
Extensive support for the latest barcode standards
- Ensure compliance with support for the latest barcode and labeling standards including GS1, UDI, GHS, FDA, and more
- Encode RFID inlays as easily as adding a barcode to your label template – includes support for smart cards and magnetic stripe cards
- Easily adapt to new regulatory mandates with the online template library, containing hundreds of pre-built templates – updated instantly to the latest industry standards and regulations
Advanced serialization
- Create serial numbers using alphanumeric, hexadecimal, or custom sequencing patterns
- Configure SQL-based databases to record serial numbers generated by BarTender or maintain a record of which database records have printed
- Specify data validation rules and automatically correct data or issue warnings
Support for lower edition capabilities
- Includes all features and capabilities available in the Professional and Starter editions
Enterprise-wide control to streamline teams and drive accountability
Whether your business operates in a highly regulated industry or spans across several locations globally, BarTender Enterprise Edition centralizes management of your mission-critical labeling to enable traceability and integrate workflows seamlessly, while ensuring maximum uptime with bullet-proof high-availability and comprehensive security controls.
Standardize and centralize your labeling workflow
- Create a single source of truth with a centralized location to manage and store label templates and documents
- Easily track the status of label documents, from start to finish, using the drag-and-drop Workflow Designer for faster label design, approval, and publishing
- Prevent users from overwriting and accessing specific documents with file check-in and checkout and revision control
Gain greater visibility into your labeling operations
- Enable traceability by maintaining comprehensive logs and records of critical label printing activities
- Protect your label printing from unauthorized access with role-based security, user permissions, and document encryption
- Meet industry standards and regulations through complete audit trails and unlimited logging
Comprehensive enterprise labeling management and reliability
Complete Audit Trials and Logging
- Capture electronic signatures and data logs in compliance with industry standards and regulations including FDA 21 CFR Part 11, UDI, MDR, FMD, and FSMA
- Configure advanced serialization across your network printers to manage traceability
- Log and detect unauthorized document or application access attempts
Centralized Security & Authorization
- Fully encrypt label templates and documents to prevent unauthorized access, sharing, and distribution
- Require electronic signatures or user login credentials before users can perform certain actions including printing activities
- Monitor (and restrict) users from printing BarTender documents
Bullet-proof Service Continuity
- Improve disaster recovery with automatic printer failover and backup options
- Maintain print production with enhanced failover license support
Custom, Flexible Integrations
- Integrate with any business system or application including SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, Sage, Infor, Körber, Epicor, NetSuite, and more
- Build custom integrations that best fit your environment using the no-code Integration Builder, BarTender REST API, or pre-built data connectors
- Optimize label template management and printing with expanded REST APIs that have been tested and proven in the most demanding enterprise environments
Efficient print recovery
- Quickly locate and reprint previously printed labels without needing to reconfigure settings or access the original data source
- Access detailed print history to find and reprint specific labels including batch or single-item prints
No-code process automation
- Automate repetitive labeling tasks, such as printing and file management, through Intelligent Forms and no-code Process Builder
- Create new business processes and support existing ones with comprehensive integration methods and actions
- Design templates for printers and terminals that merge user input information into the final printed output
“Smart” label templates
- Create dynamic templates that change label content based on data to eliminate the need for managing hundreds of label templates
- Set conditions that specify when objects, layers, or entire templates are printed
- Modify the appearance of certain objects on a label template including the object’s color, font, position, and border
- Automatically hide text on a label template based on specified conditions
Broad database support
- Connect label documents to over 20 supported databases and file types including Microsoft, Oracle, NetSuite, SAP, Firebird, IBM, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgresSQL, and more
- Build and manage your own database without external databases
- Automatically source data and images from database or external files for printing
- Create your own database tables that travel with your BarTender document designs
Anywhere, anytime printingz
- Print from any operating system on the devices your teams use every day without a local client or app install
- Secure your label printing with TSL/encryption, role-based user access, online approvals to mitigate unauthorized print runs
- Reduce label printing steps with driverless remote printing – no printer driver installation needed to network and off-network printers
Extensive support for the latest barcode standards
- Ensure compliance with support for the latest barcode and labeling standards including GS1, UDI, GHS, FDA, and more
- Encode RFID inlays as easily as adding a barcode to your label template – includes support for smart cards and magnetic stripe cards
- Easily adapt to new regulatory mandates with the online template library, containing hundreds of pre-built templates – updated instantly to the latest industry standards and regulations
Support for lower edition capabilities
- Includes all features and capabilities available in the Automation, Professional, and Starter editions