I run a retail show and I give away $2 off coupons by email, but I am finding that people are printing about 25 of them and handing them out in the line to buy your tickets. I am loosing a lot of money. I would like to put a barcode on the email that they can print off and only use ONCE. From thinking about I thought that you could have a HTML code that made a random barcode and make it put a entry into filemaker and at the ticket booth have them scan it and if its been looked at more then once then reject it.

Thanks,

Davis Ladouceur

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Well you can print barcodes from FileMaker using a barcode font. After the font is on your system, all you would need to do is format the field in FileMaker to display with the font type. There are some free ones out there as well as paying for some that have more barcode options. Also there are plugin options out there that could generate a barcode for you without having to install a font.

Also, perhaps you can tie the barcode to an invite number or email address for the uniqueness.

Here is a place that offers a free font.

http://www.barcodesinc.com/free-barcode-font/

I buy barcode fonts from ID Automation and they have a plugin for filemaker that encodes them correctly. Works great and not had issues.

http://idautomation.com/

I create and print Barcodes using the ScriptMaster Plugin

http://www.360works.com/

Definitely use the ScriptMaster Plugin. It’s free and easy

Never tried this with Scriptmaster, but you can easily print barcodes from FM just by setting a field to use a barcode font. Download a font and install it and you're all set. We print library cards with barcodes for account numbers. Filemaker prints the barcodes and the Library management software happily scans them in. Google 'Code 39 font', there are several free links to downloads.

Scanning in barcodes with FM is easy too, most barcode scanners configure on Mac or PC like a keyboard and when you hit the scan button on the gun, it sends the data as a series of keyboard inputs. You just need to make sure your database is in the correct field and it should just enter the data.

There is a tutorial over at filemakermagazine.com that specifically addresses using barcodes and scanning them from within filemaker. It's pretty cool. http://www.filemakermagazine.com/videos/the-separation-model-part-12-barcode-scanning.html.

Check this out, barcode plug-in for Filemaker Pro 12.

http://solutions.filemaker.com/made-for-filemaker/detail.jsp?id=solution.10000003889/barcode-plug-in

Using QR codes might be a way to do it.... Excellent method of generating them within FileMaker Pro here: http://fmprodb.com/197/creating-qr-codes-with-filemaker.html

For scanning them back into FileMaker you might want to consider FileMaker Go on iPhone.... For v12 this works great and is free:

http://ilevelupapps.com/scanner-go

With FileMaker Go 13 the scanning capability is built in :-) However, you will need FileMaker Pro 13 to create the scripts to do it....

All best,

Sky

Hi, Is there any complete tutorial available in forum for barcode.