The problem
NOVOSIC needed to capture structured product data from GS1-128 barcodes — the compound codes that pack several pieces of information into a single scan. Zoho Inventory's native scanner reads barcodes, but doesn't break a compound GS1 string into its individual fields.
For a medical equipment trader, those fields matter: the batch number drives traceability and recall readiness, and the expiry date feeds near-expiry alerts and stock rotation. Locked inside one opaque string, that data is unusable.
The solution
Forzateks built a focused Zoho Creator workflow that parses the full GS1-128 string and extracts each data element — product identifier, batch number, and expiry date — into clean, separate fields ready for use in the client's existing Zoho environment. Every scan lands as structured data, automatically.
Why We Scoped It This Way
Rather than rebuild capabilities Zoho already provides, we scoped the solution to the one gap that genuinely needed custom logic — keeping the client's system lean and avoiding duplicated functionality they'd have to maintain. The cheapest software to own is the software you didn't build.
The stack
Zoho Creator
Zoho Inventory
GS1-128 / Application Identifiers
Screens shown are anonymized recreations of the production workflow.
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