GS1 introduces clear pricing model for all participants
Over the past 50 years, the number of products and services within GS1 has grown considerably. It was time to make our pricing model clearer and future-proof. Easy and logical pricing ensures more clarity and transparency.
It also ensures that we can keep our standards up to date in the future and allow them to develop along with (future) legislation and regulations and the wishes of participating companies and organisations. With great care, we have made our pricing model easy with clear and consistent prices.
Our pricing model now consists of 3 elements:
- GS1 Contribution: a general contribution to GS1
- Pick Your Product: individual products and services with a fixed or turnover-based price
- Smart Bundles: packages of products and services around topics and (social) themes ( to be introduced in 2025)
Pricing model supports our ambitions for the future
Together with the users of our standards, we have set an ambitious agenda for the future. We would like to help you and all other participants in the transition from a linear to a circular and sustainable economy. Our unique identifiers play an essential role in this. They ensure that the entire journey of a product can be traced. From raw material to end-user. The switch from the barcode to the QR code is also going to make an important contribution to the circular economy. An economy we are all moving towards.
This economic transition with all the opportunities and challenges that come with it calls for a decisive, service-oriented and network-oriented organisation. An organisation that continuously steers for the development of products and services needed by our participating organisations and companies. An organisation that is in contact with the participants, enters into dialogue and can play a connecting cross-sectoral role. And an organisation that maintains and expands its international collaborations.
Adjusting the pricing model is going to help us anchor these things in our organisation in the future too. The pricing model is the guarantee for a healthy and innovative organisation. From 4 November 2024, the pricing model will start for new participants. During the year, expiring contracts of our participants will be replaced by contracts under the new price model.
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