How to Delete Leading Zero for UPC and EAN Codes

EAN-13 codes beginning with 0 are actually 12-digit UPC codes with prepended 0 digit. In recent years, more products sold by retailers outside the United States and Canada have been using EAN-13 codes beginning with 0, since they were generated by GS1-US.

Answer

To delete leading zero for UPC/EAN codes, do the following steps after connecting to the reader:  

1. Navigate to Settings
2. Select the dropdown arrow under Symbology Settings  
3. Select UPC/EAN
4. Select the checkbox „Delete leading zero”
5. Hit Save Settings  

6. If you have a master slave configuration, repeat steps 1-5 for all readers in the group.