EAN 5

EAN-5

EAN-5 is the five-digit add-on code that accompanies an EAN or UPC type barcode symbol such as an ISBN or ISSN.

Also known as: Five-Digit Add-On, Five-Digit Supplement, UPC-5.

Uses:

• The suggested retail price of a book, beside its ISBN barcode.

Standards: ISO/IEC 15420, GS1 General Specifications.

Note: The use of a five-digit add-on with EAN-8 is not defined by any symbology standard.

Deprecated. Standalone use of the EAN-5 encoder is discouraged. It is better to include an add-on by specifying the supplement's value as an extension to the data for the primary symbol. For example, 978-1-873671-00-9 54499 for a symbol representing the ISBN 978-1-873671-00-9 with suggested retail price $44.99 denoted using a five-digit add-on.

Data and Options

• The data field must contain five digits.
• For a book, the add-on carries the suggested retail price, according to the BISG barcoding guidelines: 5 followed by the price in US cents, such as 51995 for $19.95; 90000 when there is no suggested price; and 59999 for a price above $99.98, which is then not encoded. 00000 and 50000 are not used.
• The includetext option should normally be supplied.

Examples

A standalone five-digit add-on:

Data:    90200
Options: includetext guardwhitespace
Encoder: ean5