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GS1 Assistant vs Plain

Neck and neck on boosts. Profiles, pricing and deals below.

GS1 Assistant

GS1 Assistant: GS1 Barcodes for Shopify

community boosts

⚡ 0

pricing

Freemium

what it is

Assign UPC and EAN barcodes from your own GS1 Company Prefix without leaving Shopify. Stop Amazon and Walmart rejecting your GTINs. Your products appear in Verified by GS1 shortly after. ★★★★★ 5.0/5 on Shopify App Store · 10+ reviews · Free plan available Meets Shopify’s Built for Shopify quality standard. Spreadsheets, GS1 portals, manual data entry. All inside Shopify, all from the number block you already own. See every product’s barcode status at a glance: Assigned/Unassigned, Valid/Invalid, and Duplicates. Assign GTINs to your entire catalogue in batches.

Plain

Support built for B2B and developer tools

community boosts

⚡ 0

pricing

Paid

what it is

Plain is a lean, API-first support platform designed for technical products: shared inbox, Slack-native workflows and customer context pulled from your own systems. Support tooling that feels like an engineering tool.