A subscription to GS1 Canada is your gateway to the world of global standards and the many benefits available to help you on your product journey. As a critical first step, your GS1 Canada subscription provides you with the GS1 Global Trade Item Numbers (GTINs) you need for your products and barcodes, to help meet the requirements of major Canadian retailers and etailers like Amazon who require that all products being sold carry GS1 GTINs.

What’s Included in a subscription?

• The unique GTIN(s) you’ll need to create your product barcodes and your annual licence.
• A simple barcode generator tool to quickly and easily create high-resolution barcodes for your products.
• Access to myGS1, your personalized online hub for integrated, secure and quick access to your GS1 Canada tools and services, centralized account management, visibility to your account history and online payment options.
• Visibility to the types of standardized data and image content major Canadian trading partners require for different business needs, such as online sales platforms, retail planograms, in-store advertising, flyers and more. This visibility helps you determine which industry solutions you’ll need to do business with the retailers and distributors you want.
• Access to ECCnet Industry Managed Solutions, developed to meet Canadian trading partner regulatory requirements and government compliance for a variety of critical business needs.
• Access to GS1 Canada’s Learning Zone for 24/7 online access to user-friendly, bilingual training videos, supporting resources, implementation guidelines and more.
• Access to a GTIN Ombudsman, a single source of truth for any GTIN-related questions or concerns to ensure the correct assignment of GTINs to products.

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Your personalized online hub for integrated, secure and quick access to your GS1 Canada tools and services in one place, including:

• Visibility to your account status and history at a glance with easy-to-find invoices and online payment options.
• Centralized account management for changing passwords and personal account contact information.
• Subscription and company profile management: Company administrators can quickly add new users, manage existing users and update company contact information directly within myGS1.
• Visibility to data and image content major Canadian trading partners require to enable their business processes.

GS1 Canada's Learning Zone gives you 24/7 online access to user-friendly bilingual training videos and supporting resources.

The GTIN Ombudsman is a distinct role that serves as a single source of truth for any GTIN-related questions or concerns, including GTIN allocation rules, to ensure the correct assignment of GTINs to products.

Your all-in-one tool to efficiently create high-resolution barcode symbols for your products.

Easily load your product data and quickly share it with retailers, distributors and other data recipients with confidence, knowing that you’re providing the data they need to list new products and that meets Canadian regulatory requirements.

Once you have your product data loaded, this data excellence tool provides visibility to product gaps and missing information through easy-to-read graphs and charts to ensure your trading partners have access to the product details they need.

ECCnet Recall is a standardized notification tool that ensures you're ready to respond quickly and efficiently in the event that your products need to be removed from the market due to a product recall.

Get the help you need to get your products to market with one hour of personalized one-on-one consulting, including help with listing your products on Amazon.ca.

A secure, online tool for managing and sharing your eCommerce images and data with trading partners from one centralized location.

A secure, online tool for managing and sharing your Planogram, Marketing and Foodservice images and data with trading partners from one centralized location.

Using Product Certification to certify that your product images and data are 100% accurate and complete provides trading partners with ultimate confidence in your data for inclusion in programs that rely on accurate product details, ingredients and certifications, including for health and wellness programs - more specialty promotions and online platforms.