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Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
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What do you like best about BarTender?

The GUI aspects of the software make it very easy to design simple labels. If you understand the edits in Microsoft Word, you will understand the edits in BarTender. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BarTender?

It stops working often, upgrades are a nightmare, and getting tech support to help is rare.

The software has a mind of its own and labels that work one day will stop working a few days later.

If a field is blank, it causes the software to produce unexpected results.

The cost of having someone come and help us get set up made it not feasible. The documentation is very limited. Various features of the software are useless because you have no way of knowing what benefits they have or how to get them to work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BarTender:

Look at other software. BarTender is the main software on the market, however, they know it. Unless you are on the west coast and can wait weeks to get answers, they have bad customer support.

It took us months to get the software installed and working properly. Once it was installed, we have had a few issues that we have asked for support. I submit the ticket and it gets escalated to the next level, then wait weeks to get a response. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BarTender solving and how is that benefiting you?

Need to maintain and print hundreds of labels around the world from a legacy system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BarTender Overview

What is BarTender?

BarTender by Seagull connects your mission-critical labeling & RFID tracking, business data & systems, and printing operations to enable transparent, resilient, and cost-effective supply chains.

BarTender Details
Languages Supported
Czech, Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
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Product Description

BarTender makes label design and management simple and easy, yet powerful. Whether you need labeling right-out-of-the-box or integrated with your business applications to automate your business processes, BarTender allows you to centralize and standardize your labeling while ensuring regulatory compliance.


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Year Founded
1985
HQ Location
Bellevue, WA
Twitter
@SeagullSci
1,685 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
304 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Every year, the world’s largest and most dynamic supply chains in virtually every industry trust BarTender to create and print over 50 billion labels, barcodes, documents, and RFID tags that keep their products moving, traceable, and safe. BarTender supports over 200,000 companies worldwide with industry-leading labeling technologies that increase the efficiency of the entire supply chain; reduce IT, operations, and labor costs; and improve both internal and external customer satisfaction.


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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Exceptional support staff"
BarTender software is easy to install and to use, it has a a lot of options, and an exceptional customer support. I've been assisted by Ian Cumming...
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
2.5 out of 5
"Bartender IDPRT"
Easy to use and neat printing of labels etc
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Vinayak K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Decent Labeling software"
1) Easy to use. It provides Simple and unique interface to design labels. 2) Number of pre-built templates helps you to design labels faster. 3) ...
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BarTender Media

BarTender Demo - BarTender Designer
Easy, powerful label design
BarTender Demo - BarTender Print Portal
Secure anywhere, anytime remote label printing
BarTender Demo - BarTender Librarian
Centralized label management and document storage
BarTender Demo - BarTender Workflow Designer
Faster label design, approval, and publishing
BarTender Demo - User Management
Comprehensive security and auditable processes
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Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
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What do you like best about BarTender?

BarTender software is easy to install and to use, it has a a lot of options, and an exceptional customer support. I've been assisted by Ian Cummings and Navid Kalantari; both have been extremely helpful, patient, and kind. Thank you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BarTender?

So far (6 months daily using it) there is nothing to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BarTender solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before investing in purchasing BarTender software, we tried at least 3 more software, and BarTender was definitely the best, easiest, and with the best support to assist us in creating labels GS1DataMatrix and GS1 128. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BarTender?

1) Easy to use. It provides Simple and unique interface to design labels.

2) Number of pre-built templates helps you to design labels faster.

3) You can use variable data from external database or excel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BarTender?

We never faced any issue with Bartender labeling software till now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BarTender solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helped us to design and print various types of labels whether it is MRP Labels, Barcode stickers or Dispatch Lables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
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What do you like best about BarTender?

Easy to use and neat printing of labels etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BarTender?

Couldn't recover password when changed to using laptop Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BarTender solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sending out packages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Larry M.
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Network Administrator
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about BarTender?

Efficient design and layout of lables and printable products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BarTender?

Very difficult to understand deployment and limitations of product for end users as well as how to limit the user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BarTender solving and how is that benefiting you?

Efficient use of printable labels with limited customization at different work stations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alex L.
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business development manager
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What do you like best about BarTender?

we love how bartender has the "print station" where i can store saved label files for my employees to easily choose a label and print a run without worrying about making any changes to a saved template. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BarTender?

the customer support is sometimes difficult to get a hold of or they just revert me to some online troubleshooting articles to try and fix the problem on my own. I like the tech support teams that can remote connect and help a customer out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BarTender:

bartender has a demo you can download and try on their website before purchasing software. This is a significant investment and you should do your due diligence to make sure the software will have all the functions or capabilities to meet your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BarTender solving and how is that benefiting you?

we are able to store all of our saved label files in a folder on our server that any computer running bartender can access. Our employees use the bartender print station to easily choose a label, input text data required, and PRINT. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
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What do you like best about BarTender?

I like that this app allows the user to create labels that display many different varieties of coded labels, including QR Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BarTender?

There is a steep learning curve to using this program. There are YouTube videos to help, but they are very general. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BarTender solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using this as a tool to standardize our various collection and sample labeling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BarTender?

It helps to design professional barcode labels required for your organization. You can design simple as well as complex label with this. Designing tool offered by them is awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BarTender?

I don't see any point to dislike bartender software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BarTender:

Professional labels designing software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BarTender solving and how is that benefiting you?

1) we have designed number of barcode stickers and MRP sticker with the help of this.

2) it has almost all types of bar codes symbologies so we can use predefined barcode symbologies to design required label.

3) we can use variable data with labels.

4) label designing is easy and no technical knowledge is required

5) we can use images also to design label Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Goods
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What do you like best about BarTender?

I like that it's so convenient to print labels and custom Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BarTender?

Two experiences that really threw me off the fan wagon entirely. One is that the limited printer connection and technical portion of it. And two is that it does require a bit of practice to get learn how to fit a label design onto the physical label. Maybe this only happens to me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BarTender solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use it to do all my label printing and address label printing needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MA
Vice President, Technology
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about BarTender?

QR Codes, barcodes for manufacturing and shipping Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BarTender?

Old interface, settings are local to PC not in cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BarTender solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ship products, organize QC process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Howard G.
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MC, Producer, & Engineer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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