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To sell your product on eBay, you will need the GS1 GTIN for most product categories. The product identifier helps buyers find your product quickly on eBay and when they use search engines like Google.
You cannot access the Amazon marketplace without a GTIN for your product. Whether it’s electronics, fashion, or garden furniture, anyone who wants to sell their products on Amazon must identify them with a GTIN.
GS1 GTINs improve the discoverability of products on marketplace platforms, as well as in search engine results and ads.
Our identification standards are used to create identifiers for products, locations and parties, and more. Standardized codes make them uniformly identifiable, shareable and traceable in all markets.
The GS1 Service Support team assists and guides in questions and technical matters related to the use of our services.
The GS1 Synkka product information service will be updated to a new version on November 13. 2026. This page provides detailed information about the upcoming 3.1.37 version update for customers utilising the service integration.
GS1 Data Tuotetiedot provides a single, centralized solution for maintaining, validating, and sharing product information.
On this page, you will find instructions on how to create, maintain, and manage GTIN product codes using GS1 Data.
In GS1 Data, you can download a barcode for your GTIN. However, make sure that the print quality of the barcode is sufficient to scan it.
This guide will help you create a new GTIN for your product, which will be used to generate barcodes for checkout, and enter the necessary information.
GS1 Data combines the functions of GS1 Synkka and GS1 Rekisteri into one modern service. The goal is to make it easier to maintain and share product data. GS1 Data will be implemented in stages. Here you can find information about GS1 Data and its implementation.
We are developing a common operating model for collecting, harmonising and digitally sharing structured packaging material data as part of product information.
Our partners implement tested and certified solutions to support the use of GS1 standards and services. Through the partner network, we are able to expand our expertise and offer more value to our customers.
Together with fisheries companies, retailers, wholesalers and authorities, we are developing a common approach to the management and exchange of batch and traceability data for fish across the entire value chain.
We coordinate the Food Data Finland network, which develops practical data solutions and promotes data interoperability across the Finnish food chain.
We support the growth of Finnish companies by providing services that bring efficiency, transparency and ease to information sharing between companies and promote digitalisation.
We coordinate and facilitate industry-developing programs and projects. We gather our customers in collaboration groups to develop the practices of their industry and to influence the development of our services. In addition, we are strongly involved in the development of the GS1's global standards.
GS1 standards provide a common language for data, enabling the information required for the product passport to be shared, understood, and utilised in an interoperable manner regardless of industry, technology, or country.
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GS1 Finland executed a development project together with the Finnish food industry and grocery trade operators, which aimed at a practical level to solve the new information requirements set for the food chain by the EU's deforestation regulation.
Find out how our identification, capturing and sharing standards and the common operating models based on them can, among other things, improve business processes, smooth the information flow in the supply chain and improve the customer experience.