Pricing your products will result in a more convenient shopping experience for you customers. Having a price on a item you want to sell enhances the customer’s shopping experience, as not many people like to have to go and physically ask for price.

The importance of making pricing easier has been recognized since 1899 when the first pricing device was patented. Since then the efficiency of pricing guns and tagging guns have come on from strength to strength. Now pricing guns are not just designed for pricing, but inventory and date coding too.

There are many labeling products on the market to make your pricing job as easy as possible. There are pricing guns of various descriptions to help you price foods, knick knacks, and pretty much anything that can’t be tagged.

Pricing guns are very popular for pricing food items, but it is a great pricing method for other types of merchandise too. We sell price guns with two or three lines, so you can put up the price as well as the expiry date and/or lot number. Also some pricing guns come with two lines that you can use to show regular/sale price or distributor/our price; these have a price with a big red cross through and below that is the new price.

If you need to ‘tag’ your products (for example clothes) then you can pick from a selection of tagging guns. You might even consider writing prices on tags (especially sales prices), attaching them with safety pins, or safety ties. Decisions like this should be based on time considerations, how much stock you have and how often the prices are likely to change.

Tagging guns are best for clothes and anything with fabric that allows a tag to be put through it. Always make sure that where you place the tag it won’t make a noticeable hole on the clothing, so you should always put it in a seam, or even better, on the clothes label, where it won’t make any holes when the tag is removed.

You can get two types of tagging guns, the Fine Fabric tagging gun and the Standard Tagging Gun. You have to choose one or the other because the needles you buy for them are not interchangeable.

Standard tagging guns can be used for ‘tougher’ general fabrics like jeans, pillow, cuddly toys, sweaters and items made from heavier materials. Fine Fabric tagging guns can be used with delicate fabrics.

Here is a brief overview of how to use tagging guns safely. The needles are sharp, and it can be beneficial when using a tagging gun to wear leather gloves.

The following instructions on using tagging guns successfully will make sense when you have the tagging gun and tags in front of you.

1. Put the ‘T’ end of the tag in the ‘T’ slot on the tagging gun and push it in as far as it will go.
2. Next take off the needle cover .
3. Gently squeeze the trigger of the tagging gun to make sure everything is working as it should. If it’s not working make sure that the tag is pushed in far enough, as this is usually the cause of a tagging gun not working properly.
4. When you have the gun working properly, put a price tag over the needle, and put the needle into the fabric (in a place that won’t damage the garment or fabric)
5. Then squeeze the trigger of the tagging gun, which will insert the tag
6. Slowly pull the tagging gun away from the fabric, and get ready to tag the next item.
7. Lastly make sure that you put the needle guard over the needle of the tagging gun when you are finished.