BarTender vs. CODESOFT

CODESOFT

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
BarTender	Score 7.6 out of 10	N/A	Seagull Scientific in Bellevue offers BarTender, a barcode software solution, supports label design and printing, as well as barcode reading and RFID tools.	$495 per 1 Application License + 1 Printer License
CODESOFT	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	CODESOFT is a barcode label design software with automated printing and label management functionality. The platform supports complex integration with local and cloud data, including Google Drive, OneDrive, and OData. Teams can accomplish RFID label creation, print labels in virtually any language, connect to databases such as Excel, Access, and SQL, use label passwords for protection, and enable APIs for print automation. CODESOFT is designed to meet regulatory…	$433 per year per user

Pricing

BarTender

CODESOFT

Editions & Modules

BarTender Software 2019 Professional Edition: $495
per 1 Application License + 1 Printer License
BarTender Software 2019 Professional Edition: $690
per 1 Application License + 2 Printer License
BarTender Software 2019 Professional Edition: $885
per 1 Application License + 3 Printer License
BarTender Software 2019 Professional Edition: 1,275
per 1 Application License + 5 Printer License
BarTender Software 2019 Professional Edition: 2,250
per 1 Application License + 10 Printer License

CODESOFT Pro: $433.00
per year per user
CODESOFT Enterprise: $708.00
per year per user
CODESOFT Pro Perpetual: $1,215.00
one-time fee per user
CODESOFT Enterprise Perpetual: $2,006.00
one-time fee per user

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
BarTender	CODESOFT
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Perpetual licenses come with options of a 1 -Year, 3-Year, or 5-Year Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA), which entitles users to no-cost version upgrades, technical support, and two training webinars per year. Subscription licenses also come in 1-Year, 3-Year or 5-Year options, and they include free unlimited training webinars and technical support, plus free version upgrades.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	BarTender	CODESOFT
Considered Both Products	BarTender Verified User Anonymous Chose BarTender We're currently evaluating Nicelable and are in the process of replacing Bartender with Nicelable. Cost is similar for our needs level and Nicelable has a modern UI and is much more user-friendly. We are having to rework our automation routines but we're seeing a higher … Incentivized Helpful? Normand Whitehead Senior R&D Eng. Technologist Chose BarTender We are also using Teklynx Labelview currently...Bartender provides better accuracy and speed, is more customizable. However, Teklynx Labelview is easier to use. Incentivized Helpful? DC Darren Clarke IT Support Technician Chose BarTender We selected BarTender for the amount of things that it can do. The options that you can configure in the software just make it super flexible. It will easily grow with the business. It also enables you to have built in DR across all the sites when it is up and running properly. … Incentivized Helpful? BM Brendon McGovern Program Manager Chose BarTender BarTender is the easiest label designer I have used. There are so many features within the program that I love learning and trying new things to discover aspects of the software I didn’t know existed. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose BarTender We do use Zebra label designer, a free product, in circumstances where we don’t need a complicated label, such as no serialization, no connection to a dynamic database, etc. If we were to pull those instances into BarTender, we would need more licenses, which are expensive Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose BarTender We had people using word merge to print labels and now they are using bartender Incentivized Helpful?	CODESOFT No answer on this topic

User Ratings
	BarTender	CODESOFT
Likelihood to Recommend	6.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	BarTender	CODESOFT
Likelihood to Recommend	Very well suited for multiple barcodes and type of barcodes on one label. Can be adapted to ones particular needs, quite customizable. A bit difficult to get used to, it takes some time and is not as user friendly as other applications. Incentivized Normand Whitehead Senior R&D Eng. Technologist Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	The ability to design labels quickly with templates or from scratch The ability to use a database to print a large quantity of labels with various data inputs is critical for our requirements. The ability to serialize is really convenient. Incentivized BM Brendon McGovern Program Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	Licensing: argggh! Their draconian licensing model can stop you in your tracks if you’re not careful. It’s per printer, not seat, so errant print jobs can exceed your licenses. Be careful! Interaction with the cloud: we recently moved to Box and have yet to figure out a way to utilize Print Station with our cloud database. If there’s a way to do it, it’s not well documented. Support: if you’re not paying for premium support, expect an email response within 24 hours. Telephone support is good, but we’ve sometimes had to leave a message and wait... Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Likelihood to Renew	Easy to renew and update the license Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	I often have to try to troubleshoot printing issues for other team members, but I have never reached out to a BarTender support network. I’ve always just tinkered within the app to figure it out. Incentivized BM Brendon McGovern Program Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	We're currently evaluating Nicelable and are in the process of replacing Bartender with Nicelable. Cost is similar for our needs level and Nicelable has a modern UI and is much more user-friendly. We are having to rework our automation routines but we're seeing a higher upside with lower IT involvement that we think will give us an acceptable ROI. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Ability to Design and Create Customer Specific Labels Able to link to different file repositories Ability to design labels for different media types Incentivized DC Darren Clarke IT Support Technician Read full review	No answers on this topic
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