Your first scan

Create an account

Sign in with Google, with Apple, or with your email address and a magic link. Signup is open — no approval step — and the account you create works on the phone and in the browser.

The free plan includes 100 scans a month, which is enough to count a shelf and decide whether the workflow fits. Once you are signed in you can also claim Field Pro free until 4 December 2026 — one tap, no card. Team is free for the same window and is claimed with a single-use founding code; ask us for one. There is nothing to cancel because billing is not live yet, and if the window closes before billing is ready your account simply becomes a free account again — nothing is deleted.

Scan your first barcode

Scanning happens on the phone — iOS or Android — where the camera is. Open the scanner, point it at any product barcode, and listen for the beep. FieldScan reads the nine common one-dimensional symbologies: EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, UPC-E, Code 128, Code 39, Code 93, Codabar and ITF-14.

Each accepted scan records:

• the barcode and its symbology
• the moment of capture — even if the scan syncs later, the timestamp is when you pointed the camera, not when the network came back
• where you were, as GPS coordinates, plus a free-text place name you can add
• a scan count — pointing the camera at the same barcode again raises the count on that record instead of creating a duplicate

See it in the browser

Open the web dashboard and your scan is there. The browser is the back office — history, groups, exports, analytics, team — and it deliberately never asks for camera access, because scanning stays on the phone where the optics are.

Where to go next

• Organize what you scan with groups — the organizing unit everything else builds on.
• Working somewhere with no signal? Offline scanning explains exactly what is captured and when it syncs.
• Getting data out is the whole point: export fields and formats.