The GS1 UK identifier management platform, My Numberbank, is a cloud-native, enterprise-scale product data management platform built on Microsoft Azure. Designed to support global standards delivery for GS1 UK Member Organization.

Built upon Microsoft Azure to deliver 24/7/365 service, supporting GS1 standards across a multitude of GS1 products and services. Designed to support complex, global supply chains, it securely manages over 200 million digital assets for more than 60,000 organisations, including Tier 1 retailers, NHS suppliers, construction leaders, and pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Successfully replacing fragmented, manual, and legacy systems with a resilient Azure-based architecture, My Numberbank delivers real-time data accuracy, global compliance, and high scale availability—enabling faster product onboarding and stronger supply chain integrity.

• Industry Proven – Award winning solution with QWARE being recognized as 20​25 South Coast Tech & Innovation SME of the Year
• Proven Scale & Complexity – Managing 200M+ assets across 60K+ organisations
• Always-On Resilience – 24/7/365 global access with multi-region redundancy
• True Cloud-Native Design – Built specifically for Azure, not migrated from legacy systems
• Security & Compliance – ISO-certified, privacy-first architecture
• User-Centric Experience – Intuitive dashboards, guided workflows, and powerful bulk processing

My Numberbank provides a trusted foundation for managing product identifiers and associated data at scale—ensuring compliance, speed, and operational confidence across complex global supply chains. My Numberbank provides a faster, simpler way to allocate identifiers, generate barcodes and share trusted product data with partners.

In today’s interconnected economy, accurate and standardised product data is critical. GS1 identifiers, such as GTINs (Global Trade Item Numbers) and GLNs (Global Location Numbers), are essential for traceability, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency across industries.

Organisations managing millions of identifiers face significant challenges:

• Multiple fragmented and manual systems for managing identifiers
• Inconsistent or duplicated data across supply chains
• Delays onboarding new products, impacting revenue and availability
• Increased compliance risk in regulated industries such as healthcare

As data volumes grew into the millions and expectations shifted toward real-time availability, legacy platforms were unable to keep pace. GS1 UK needed a secure, centralised, and future-proof solution designed for scale globally from day one.

Design a trusted system for GS1 UK and its members to meet these key critical success factors:

• Manage and govern millions of product identifiers
• Allocate identifiers, generate barcodes, and share valued data in real-time, with built-in checks to reduce duplication and errors
• Support 60,000+ businesses across multiple industries
• Import and export identifiers with high-volume, bulk operations without performance degradation using templates for bulk operations
• Ensure compliance with global standards, including verified by GS1
• Design and implement an architecture that enables dynamic modelling of GS1 products and services, minimising dependency on costly system code updates.

The journey to achieve My Numberbank began with reflecting on the past, gaining clarity, understanding business needs, and focusing on building for the future.

QWARE designed and delivered My Numberbank to address the GS1 UK business challenges and achieve its goals by:

• The adoption of Object Relational Modelling (ORM) playing a significant role in achieving dynamic data at scale
• Harnessing Azure SQL Server and Cosmos DB to meet high-volume demand, delivering secure, high-scale sub-second response and availability
• Micro-services architecture to deliver scalable and resilient distributed compute
• Building on robust security principles to meet the most stringent of vulnerability testing
• A cloud-first architecture ensuring high-performance, scalable, solid availability you can trust
• Adopting a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) approach ensured a focused and timely delivery.

Built for today, ready for tomorrow

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• Next generation barcode-ready
• Transforming business information sharing
• Meeting regulatory and compliance demands
• Smarter consumer engagement
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Verified by GS1

• Empowering GS1 members to easily adopt Verified by GS1 standards
• Establish trust and efficiency
• Unlocking greater potential

See My Numberbank in action.

The result is a single, trusted source of truth for product data—accessible anytime, anywhere.

Rather than retrofitting existing legacy systems, the platform was engineered from the ground up to deliver high availability, scalability, and security by design.

My Numberbank has become a mission-critical platform for GS1 UK who depends on accurate, compliant product data.

Key benefits include:

• 60,000+ organisations onboarded across multiple industries
• 200 million digital assets securely managed
• Identifier creating and sharing  reduced from days to minutes
• Elimination of identifier duplication, strengthening data integrity and compliance
• 24/7/365 availability

The result is faster time-to-market, reduced operational risk, and improved confidence across supply chain partners.