(Updated September 2026) Track AR: Buy GTINs/UPC/EAN barcodes's estimated install share within every Shopify App Store group it appears in — categories, keywords, and collections — with current %, 30-day change, and Growing / Stable / Declining status. Buy GTINs / barcodes for your products so they are more likely to get approved in marketplaces..
AR: Buy GTINs/UPC/EAN barcodes's estimated install share within each Shopify App Store group it appears in — categories, keywords, and collections — with current %, status (Growing / Stable / Declining), and 30-day change. Filterable by date range and sortable by share or share change.
| Category/Keyword | Market Share | Status |
|---|---|---|
CategorySKU and barcodes Sales channels > Selling in person > SKU and barcodes | 0.44%0.49 | Declining |
CategorySelling in person Sales channels > Selling in person | 0.17%0.17 | Declining |
KeywordUPC | 0.16%0.19 | Declining |
CategorySales channels | 0.02%0.02 | Declining |
KeywordSKU and barcodes | 0.01%0.01 | Declining |
Keywordbarcodes | 0.00%0.01 | Declining |
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Key Insights:
Monthly market share trajectory for AR: Buy GTINs/UPC/EAN barcodes across its top 5 Shopify App Store groups over the past year — pick categories or keywords to plot, filter by country, and switch sub-tabs for absolute share or per-interval change.
| Category / Keyword | Apr 2026 | May 2026 | Jun 2026 | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 | Sep 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sku And Barcodes | 1.26% | 1.09%0.17 | 0.92%0.17 | 0.43%0.49 | 0.13%0.3 | 0.13% |
| Selling In Person | 0.40% | 0.37%0.03 | 0.33%0.04 | 0.17%0.16 | 0.05%0.12 | 0.05% |
| Upc | — | 0.46% | 0.34%0.12 | 0.16%0.18 | 0.03%0.13 | 0.03% |
| Barcodes | 0.02% | 0.02% | 0.01%0.01 | 0.01% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| Sales Channels | 0.04% | 0.04% | 0.04% | 0.02%0.02 | 0.01%0.01 | 0.01% |
Key Insights:
AR: Buy GTINs/UPC/EAN barcodes captures the largest share of installs in SKU and barcodes — 0.4% of the group's tracked install base, followed by 0.2% in Selling in person and 0.2% in UPC. Sort the table by Share to see the full ordered list.
AR: Buy GTINs/UPC/EAN barcodes is contracting in more groups than it's expanding. SKU and barcodes saw the sharpest dip this month — switch to "Market Share Changes" to see the full distribution and check whether the contractions cluster around a shared theme.
Market share is estimated from each app's review velocity within a group, used as a proxy for install share. For category and collection groups, it's a straight share-of-reviews calculation; for keyword groups, ranking position is weighted (rank #1 ≈ 40× the weight of rank #22, with apps beyond #22 excluded) since search traffic concentrates heavily at the top. The Country filter on the table re-computes share using only that country's reviews.
Share figures are recomputed weekly from the latest review data. AR: Buy GTINs/UPC/EAN barcodes is currently losing share in more groups than it's gaining — the trend chart's date range filter lets you check whether the slide started recently or has been ongoing.
Rankings and trends across every Shopify app, category, and keyword.