What type of Barcode should I use so our register can read a 12 digit account code?

What type of Barcode should I use so our register can read a 12 digit account code?
At the store in which I work we have many Customer Accounts that are all entered into the register by hand typing in the 12 digits that make up the account number.

We have a Barcode Reader that we use to scan the UPC’s and I tried in training mode to scan a UPC as the account number and nothing happened. eg: No Numbers Came On Screen

I was wondering if anyone knows a certain barcode that will work for this and can be read with our scanner?

-I am trying a Code 39 barcode tommorow that I made today
-Feel free to ask any related questions, but I will not answer any specifics about customers or where I work
Any other suggestions to aid in speeding up the process are welcome! As I said before it’s time consuming to find the code for each customer and manually enter it.
When I said I tried scanning a UPC for the account number, I mean I used a random product’s UPC to see if anything would actually show up!

Best answer:

Some of the UPC codes have a check digit embedded in them to make sure you are giving a correctly formed UPC. If you just tried scanning an account number as a UPC that is probably the reason that nothing showed up! This form is called UPC-A but is usually just called UPC. UPC-B uses no check digit, so you can encode the full 12 digits. Check if your scanner has the ability to read different UPC types, and if so, perhaps that is the problem!

You can read about UPC on wikipedia, and the
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Product_Code

Hope that is the problem and this helps!

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