Pricing
BarTender Software
Starter
Simple label design and printing for small businesses
Starting from
$199 / year
- Single user
- Unlimited printers
- Easy-to-use design tools, hundreds of pre-built commonly used templates, and basic printing management
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Professional
Dynamic labels, RFID tags, and cards
Starting from
$299 / year
- Unlimited users on 1 printer, or 1 user on unlimited printers
- Everything in Starter, plus data entry forms, Intelligent Templatesâ„¢, database connectivity, encoding and manual printing
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Automation
Powerful integrations with existing business systems
Starting from
$496 / year
- Unlimited users
- 2+ printers
- Everything in Professional, plus
business system integration, intelligent forms, application building and automated printing
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Enterprise
Comprehensive enterprise labeling management
Contact sales for a quote.
- Unlimited users
- 3+ printers
- Everything in Automation, plus centralized management including document, workflow and print management along with comprehensive security and high availability

BarTender Cloud
Essentials
The quickest and easiest way to start printing
Starting from
$390 / year
- Unlimited printers and users
- BarTender Cloud Designer
- Bartender Template Library with built-in Template Assistant
- Two custom label designs
- and more
BarTender Cloud
Automation
Integrate your business applications
Starting from
$1295 / year
- All the benefits of BarTender Cloud Essentials, plus:
- 5 GB Storage
- BarTender REST API
- File drop integration
- Standard Support
- With optional add-ons
Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise |
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General
Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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Business label design and management | ||||||||
Dynamic business printing | ||||||||
Efficient automated printing | ||||||||
Comprehensive enterprise-wide printing | ||||||||
Number of users |
Single user |
Unlimited users |
Unlimited users |
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Number of printers |
Unlimited printers |
2+ printers |
3+ printers |
Included companion applications
Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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Administration Console | ||||||||
Designer | ||||||||
History Explorer | ||||||||
Data Builder | ||||||||
Print Station | ||||||||
Print Portal | ||||||||
Integration Builder | ||||||||
Process Builder | ||||||||
Reprint Console | ||||||||
Printer Maestro | ||||||||
Librarian |
Support
Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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Standard Maintenance and Support |
Includes 1 year |
Includes 1 year |
Includes 1 year |
Includes 1 year |
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Premium Maintenance and Support - Add-on Option |
Easy-to-use design
Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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Easy WYSIWYG template design | ||||||||
Global support | ||||||||
Comprehensive help system | ||||||||
Quick start | ||||||||
New Document Wizard | ||||||||
Fonts | ||||||||
Text formatting | ||||||||
Transformed text | ||||||||
Shapes and lines | ||||||||
Dynamic text and object wrapping | ||||||||
Unmatched barcode support | ||||||||
Human readable barcode | ||||||||
GS1 Application Identifier Data Source Wizard | ||||||||
Graphics and images | ||||||||
Symbols | ||||||||
Tables and grids | ||||||||
White-on-black printing | ||||||||
Front and back template design | ||||||||
Amazon Transparency support | ||||||||
Embedded revision logging | ||||||||
Full color support |
Intelligent Templatesâ„¢
Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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Suppression | ||||||||
Label templates | ||||||||
Template selector | ||||||||
Layers | ||||||||
Automatic face detection and cropping | ||||||||
Scriptable object properties |
Dynamic data and databases
Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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Date and time | ||||||||
Data validation and processing | ||||||||
Concatenate data | ||||||||
Basic database connectivity | ||||||||
Simple serialization | ||||||||
Named database connections | ||||||||
Database filters | ||||||||
Database sourced tables | ||||||||
Dynamic data preview | ||||||||
Dynamic graphics and images | ||||||||
Embedded database tables | ||||||||
Enhanced database connectivity | ||||||||
Advanced serialization | ||||||||
Create a database | ||||||||
Write back to databases | ||||||||
Visual Basic (VB) scripting | ||||||||
Global database field | ||||||||
Advanced global database field | ||||||||
Phrase library |
Data entry forms
Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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Database record selection | ||||||||
Powerful form controls | ||||||||
Keyboard and mouse input | ||||||||
Scanner input | ||||||||
Weighing scale input | ||||||||
Image capture | ||||||||
Data validation |
Integration and automation
Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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Intelligent Forms | ||||||||
Integrations | ||||||||
Business systems | ||||||||
Document level actions | ||||||||
Integration data | ||||||||
Integration actions | ||||||||
.NET SDK | ||||||||
BarTender REST API | ||||||||
Print Portal REST API |
Printing, encoding, and exporting
Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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Drivers by Seagullâ„¢ | ||||||||
Print optimizations | ||||||||
Windows printer drivers | ||||||||
Printer configuration and diagnostics | ||||||||
On-demand and batch printing | ||||||||
Print preview | ||||||||
Image exporting | ||||||||
RFID, smartcard, and magnetic stripe encoding | ||||||||
Web printing | ||||||||
Native PDF generation | ||||||||
Printer code templates | ||||||||
Reprint labels and documents | ||||||||
Printer failover |
Centralized management
Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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Centralized role-based permission management | ||||||||
Centralized document storage | ||||||||
Template files and revision control | ||||||||
Optimized label design workflows | ||||||||
Define workflow team | ||||||||
Workflow Designer | ||||||||
System audit trail |
Security, monitoring, and alerts
Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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Status monitoring | ||||||||
Email alerts | ||||||||
Role-based security | ||||||||
Document and printing password | ||||||||
Electronic signatures | ||||||||
Document encryption | ||||||||
Backup and resilient licensing server |
Essentials | Automation |
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General
Essentials | Automation | |||
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Bartender Cloud Designer | ||||
Secure anywhere, anytime printing | ||||
Zero footprint | ||||
Intelligent Printing | ||||
BarTender REST API | ||||
Account storage size |
2GB |
5GB |
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Support |
Essential |
Standard |
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Premium Support | ||||
Label Design Service | ||||
Unlimited users | ||||
BarTender Cloud Spaces | ||||
Workflow Designer |
Additional Features
Essentials | Automation | |||
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True mobile cloud printing | ||||
On-demand-base pricing | ||||
Customer Success Process | ||||
Template Library | ||||
Connect to Cloud databases | ||||
Data Entry Forms | ||||
Serialization | ||||
Embedded data and database tables | ||||
Track and compare label revisions | ||||
Label revisions audit trial | ||||
Role-based user history dashboard | ||||
Configure site branding | ||||
High 99.9% availability | ||||
Secure and scalable | ||||
Upload images, Excel, CSV, and TXT files | ||||
Built-in Template Assistant | ||||
Print-Time Overrides | ||||
BarTender Cloud Font Manager |
Frequently Asked Questions
BarTender offers flexible licensing models that support your business requirements and scalability.
BarTender Software is available as a traditional per-printer or Workstation license (only available for Professional and Starter editions). Both license types are available as a traditional perpetual license or subscription.
BarTender Cloud is available as a traditional per-printer subscription or per-label subscription. Per-printer subscriptions provide unlimited users and label print runs. Per-label subscriptions provide unlimited users and unlimited printers.
The BarTender Workstation license is an easy entry-level solution that allows you to print to unlimited printers from a single user and PC. Available for Professional and Starter editions only.
BarTender offers three levels of Maintenance & Support: Premium, Standard, and Essential. The Essential level of support is only available for BarTender Cloud Essentials customers.
Standard Maintenance & Support is included for at least one (1) year with the purchase of any new BarTender license, except BarTender Cloud Essentials which receives the Essential support level. Standard support grants access to live technical support channels (including phone and chat), free BarTender Software updates to the latest features and enhancements, licensing and activation assistance, and more.
Premium Maintenance & Support is an available add-on service that minimizes disruptions through 24/7/365 global coverage (including weekends and public holidays) and guaranteed 1-hour response time for any production-impacting issue.
Yes, all BarTender licenses offer 1-, 3-, and 5-year plans. The 3-year plan offers an additional 10% discount and the 5-year plan offers an additional 15% discount.
Currently, all BarTender licenses are only available with annual agreements.
Yes, BarTender customers can upgrade their editions and plans at any time. Additionally, BarTender customers can add more printers to their license, Premium Maintenance & Support, Professional Services, and other products and services whenever they need them.
Please note that there are additional costs for all upgrades and add-ons.
Yes, depending on which license you have, you can switch licensing models to better suit your needs at any time. BarTender Software customers can leverage the BarTender License Flex Program to switch from perpetual licensing to subscription. BarTender Cloud customers can also switch from per-label to per-printer and vice versa.
Each BarTender Cloud plan requires an annual subscription fee and a one-time $395 provisioning charge. The provisioning charge includes two (2) label template designs and label template consultation with our Label Design team and Customer Success onboarding. Our Customer Success process will provision your account, take you through the onboarding process, and provide any needed implementation and account configuration assistance.
For label printing volume overages of 5% or less, customers will need to renew their BarTender Cloud Plan at the next highest volume tier from their original purchase. For label printing volume overages more than 5%, an additional invoice will be provided for the additional label printing volume.