July 28, 2025
Roman Kreynin
When barcodes are just decoration — and how to change that in 3 days.
Imagine this:
A moving truck arrives at a storage facility. Movers unload the boxes and bring them to a warehouse clerk. The clerk scans each label with an app on their phone. The app helps them confirm what’s been received, flags any box that doesn’t belong, and automatically generates a digital report signed by both the warehouse and the driver.
Sounds pretty normal for an age where newborns get a barcode bracelet before they even get a name, right?
In reality? That’s a unicorn.
Boxes are still marked with sharpies or ancient paper tags. Instead of using a real app, the clerk ticks off boxes on a PDF printed from a bingo sheet. Even when there are barcoded labels, they’re often unreadable by the clerk’s scanner — because they were created in some other system.
Now take a look at the image that opened this article. If you see a crew and warehouse staff actually using barcodes, chances are they’re working with Voxme’s Bingo Portal at bingo.voxme.com.
For just $300/year, this portal lets you generate printable barcode labels that actually mean something: they encode both the job number and the item number — and are instantly scannable by the Voxme Digital Bingo app.
At that point, the fantasy scenario becomes real:
Better yet, the system can generate digital inventories when that’s part of the client’s process. It keeps all check-in reports and item lists archived, searchable by job number or client initials — so you’re never stuck digging through folders when claims or audits come up.
The cost? Just $3 per completed job.
Getting started usually takes a couple of days. Most companies order the standard printer + label kit from Levata. Voxme handles setup, trains your staff, connects the printer — and even adds your company’s logo to the label and report, at no extra charge.
So if you’re still drawing squiggles on cardboard with a marker, ask yourself:
Barcode… for what?
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