Internet UPC Database

Welcome to the Internet UPC Database! This free service is run as a hobby of mine. The information indexed here seems to be of use to many people for a variety of reasons.

This site isn't limited to UPCs any more. First of all, the term 'UPC' has been deprecated; the new term is UCC-12. But the world has moved beyond that. As of January 2005, retailers in the U.S. are supposed to be able to support the EAN/UCC-13 code (the rest of the world has done this for years), which uses similar symbology, and one additional digit.

This site continues to be useful because people continue to contribute data. Please help keep that up. Every entry counts. If you're in a position to contribute more data than can be easily entered by hand, and you have permission to share it, please contact me by email so we can work something out. I can load an Excel spreadsheet or CSV file pretty easily.

If you have any feedback or suggestions, just send email. I can be reached by email at webmaster@upcdatabase.com. Please read the FAQ before asking any questions, just to see if maybe somebody else has asked already.

Amazon Prime Promotion

I'm a big Amazon customer, and I've used Amazon Prime since they started the service (3 years ago?), and I highly recommend it. For a flat annual fee, you get free 2-day shipping, and overnight shipping for $3.99 per item. Right now, they're running a special deal where you can try out the service for one month. What do you have to lose? To top it off, if you sign up for this free trial membership through one of the links on this page, I get a referral fee to help me defer some of the costs of hosting this site.

27 May 2008 -- Site Featured by Kim Komando

We're Kim's "Site of the Day" today, and while the site's holding up well under the load, there have still been a few problems. Please bear with me. A little patience and a few retries will probably be all you need.

This is a good thing for the site, though. Lots of new items are being added just today, and hopefully some of the new users will stick around and keep the growth rate up.

24 May 2008 -- Moved to New Server

I just moved the site to a new server. I think everything's working, but please let me know if you have any problems.

If you signed up for an account before the move (Friday night), you won't be able to confirm your account. Please sign up again. Everything in the signup process has been tested to work since the move.

18 Mar 2008 -- When Will We Hit One Million?

Seems that we're approaching 1,000,000 entries pretty quickly! Does anyone want to guess when we'll cross that major milestone? We're at 940,000 right now...

7 Mar 2008 -- Better Manufacturer Information

I know some of you noticed a short time ago that manufacturer information stopped appearing on the site. This was due to the fact that drastic assumptions were made to provide that information in the first place. While it may have been correct much of the time, it was incorrect way too often to continue to be presented as fact.

What's happening now is that each individual item is being mapped to a manufacturer by its GLN, and the manufacturer's name & address is being looked up by the same GLN. Luckily, I've been accumulating this information for a while now for items already in the database. We're not starting from scratch. But unfortunately, new items added to the database won't have this information populated for them right away.

I have yet to modify the XML-RPC interface to reflect these changes, but that will come soon, as will the ability to look up a manufacturer by GLN, and list all the items for that manufacturer.

29 Jun 2007 -- FAQ updates

I've been getting a lot of questions lately relating to manufacturer information. I've added several questions to the FAQ list that will hopefully be useful. Any remaining questions, as usual, should be directed to the mailing lists or to me.

25 May 2007 -- XML-RPC API update

Item lookup methods now return some manufacturer info, also.

Comments, suggestions, or questions may be sent to webmaster@upcdatabase.com.