---
id: "ginc"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["gs1", "shipping", "transport"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 75
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ginc"
---

# Global Identification Number for Consignment (GINC) (`ginc`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

GS1 identification key for a consignment: logistic units that a freight forwarder or carrier moves together as one transport assignment. It is a GS1 Company Prefix followed by a consignment reference, up to 30 characters of GS1 character set 82 in total; the first four characters are digits because the shortest GS1 Company Prefix has four. In barcodes it is carried by Application Identifier (401); the element string is the pattern gs1_ai_401.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: GS1 standards (gs1), Shipping and delivery (shipping), Transportation (transport)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier
- Patterns: `gs1_ai_401`

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{4}[!%-?A-Z_a-z\x22]{0,26}$
```

## Examples

- `9528765CONS-0042` — Synthetic value with the GS1 demonstration prefix 952 and a consignment reference
- `9528765CN26-0815` — Synthetic value with the GS1 demonstration prefix 952 and a consignment reference
- `CONS-0042` (invalid example) — Does not start with a GS1 Company Prefix

## Sources

- doc: <https://ref.gs1.org/ai/401>
- doc: <https://ref.gs1.org/standards/genspecs/>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ginc.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/gs1/ginc.yaml>