Shipping labels and SSCCs

GS1-128 carton labels generated together with your 856 ASN, so the SSCCs always match — print on 4×6 stock or download ZPL for Zebra thermal printers.

The most expensive mistake in retail EDI isn't a malformed document — it's a carton label that doesn't match the ship notice. The retailer's warehouse scans a barcode, looks for it in your 856, doesn't find it, and the chargeback writes itself.

Labels and the 856 are generated together

EDISQ builds your GS1-128 carton labels and your 856 from the same data, at the same time. Every SSCC-18 (the serial shipping container code — the long barcode the warehouse scans) that prints on a label is the same SSCC carried in the 856's MAN segments. Generated together, they can never disagree.

You can view the 856 alongside its label set in the app and confirm the pairing yourself before anything ships.

Printing

• Any printer — labels lay out one per page on standard 4×6 stock.
• Zebra thermal printers — download the label set as a ZPL file and send it straight to the printer.

Your GS1 company prefix

Real SSCCs are built from your GS1 company prefix — the number that comes with a GS1 membership. Enter it once under Settings and every label from then on carries your real range. Until you do, labels generate from a test range and print with a TEST watermark, so nothing unofficial can accidentally ship.

If your retailer requires GS1-128 labels and you don't have a GS1 membership yet, that's the one piece of homework EDISQ can't do for you — but it's a form and a fee, not a project.