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The Barcodes Add-on Now Says What Is Already Included

The Alternative Barcodes unlock dialog, the banners on the asset form and the trial welcome email now say first that Shelf QR codes, their labels and scanning them are in every plan, and that the add-on is for other formats or codes already on your gear.

The Unlock Alternative Barcodes dialog used to list "QR codes", "Print barcode labels" and a "Built-in barcode scanner" as things the add-on gives you, which read as though Shelf's own QR codes were a paid feature. They are not, and never were: every plan generates a QR code for each asset and kit, prints labels for them and scans them. A prospect buying unassigned QR stickers from the Shelf store asked whether that meant buying the add-on too, and the honest answer was no.

The copy now says so. The dialog, the banners on the asset form and asset page, the plan picker card and the barcode trial welcome email all open with "Shelf QR codes are included in every plan", and describe the add-on as what it is: adding Code128, Code39, EAN-13 and DataMatrix barcodes to assets and kits, keeping the barcodes already on your gear (including QR codes from another system), and printing and scanning those. The disabled Add code to asset tooltip starts with the same sentence. Nothing about what the add-on unlocks has changed; see Alternative Barcodes.

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