Power your cloud applications, workflows, and development projects with our high-performance, scalable, and reliable barcode generation API.
Since 1994, ActiveBarcode has delivered trusted, high-performance barcode software, built in C++ for unmatched speed and reliability. In response to the growing demand for cloud-based solutions, we introduced the ActiveBarcode REST API in 2019 - a robust, scalable service designed to bring our industry-leading barcode generation capabilities to modern cloud environments, mobile applications, and web platforms.
Why Choose the ActiveBarcode REST API?
Effortless Integration for All Users: Whether you are an end-user generating barcodes in cloud applications like Office 365 or Excel Online, an administrator automating workflows, or a developer building web or mobile apps, our REST API integrates seamlessly into your environment. No local software installation or maintenance is required - set it up and let us handle the rest.
High Performance and Reliability: Built for mission-critical applications, our API is highly performant, globally scalable, and multi-redundant to ensure 99.9% uptime and low-latency barcode generation. Barcodes are delivered as precise PNG or SVG files, ready for any use case.
Developer-Friendly Design: Developers benefit from a lightweight, library-free solution that eliminates the limitations of traditional barcode libraries. Our API supports a wide range of barcode types with full accuracy, backed by comprehensive documentation and examples to accelerate integration.
Cloud-Optimized and Resource-Efficient: By generating barcodes in the cloud, the API offloads local resource demands (CPU, storage), making it ideal for resource-constrained environments like mobile devices and web apps.
Continuous Innovation with Backward Compatibility: We regularly enhance the API with new features and optimizations while maintaining full backward compatibility, ensuring a true set up and forget experience. Rely on our expertise to keep your barcode solution future-proof.
Tailored for Your Needs: We value customer feedback and actively evolve the API to meet your requirements, delivering a solution that grows with your business.
Who Benefits?
Decision-Makers: Streamline operations with a reliable, maintenance-free barcode solution that scales with your business and reduces IT overhead.
End-Users: Generate barcodes effortlessly within your cloud-based tools, backed by our 30+ years of barcode expertise.
Developers and Administrators: Build robust applications and workflows with a flexible, high-performance API that adapts to any platform or environment.
Get Started Today
Unlock the power of the ActiveBarcode REST API with your access key. Explore our extensive documentation, try our free apps and add-ins, and experience why businesses worldwide trust ActiveBarcode for their barcode needs. Have feedback? We are all ears - your input drives our innovation.
The REST API allows to automate tasks that need to generate barcodes.
Evaluating the REST API is free but comes with a watermark in the barcodes. Using the REST API for non evauluation use requires a paid subscription. You purchase an API key for our software-as-a-service solution that entitles you to use it.
We offer flexible subscription plans with automatic renewal and one-time packages without renewal to suit your needs. Monthly subscriptions can be canceled, renewed, or switched to other plans or one-time packages at any time.
Your access-key is not bound to a specifc device or user. So you can use it from as many users or devices as you like.
Each order includes a unique API key, which remains active until a monthly subscription is canceled or a one-time package is fully used. For your convenience, the API key remains unchanged as long as your monthly subscription is active. Currently, there is no automated way to upgrade an existing subscription while retaining the same API key. Please contact us if you need to keep your existing API key during an upgrade.
The ActiveBarcode API is constantly monitored for availability and performance. The API will constantly updated, improved and extended with new features. You simply use the API but don't have to setup or maintain anything.
The API key is not a replacement for the regular standard or higher license required for the ActiveBarcode software for Windows. Depending on your goals, you may want to use the REST API only, so you don't need to purchase the regular license. On the other hand: The regular license is a perpetual license and does not require the API key. You can evaluate both before making a purchase decision.
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