Hey Jan!

I haven’t had experience with HDWR only Netum (which wasn’t very positive). That said, if you find positive reviews out there, shouldn’t be a problem to work with Airtable.

Are you hoping to build a custom block with barcode scanning in mind?

The TERA scanners are excellent and very well priced.

And a great app to scan barcodes with Airtable is Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable.

I’ve given some advanced barcode scanning tips in this thread: https://community.airtable.com/t5/automations/automation-to-update-a-field-based-on-a-barcode-scanned/td-p/181635

Fillout offers dozens of features that Airtable’s native forms don’t offer, including the ability to update Airtable records from a form, the ability to display Airtable lookup fields & Airtable rollup fields & Airtable attachments & formulas on forms, creating linked records on a form, creating multi-page forms, accepting payments on forms, and much more. So you could even display the record information that you’re scanning right on the form.

 p.s. If your company has a budget for your project and you’d like to hire an expert Airtable consultant to help you with any of this, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld 

Airtable only allows manual searching and updating when scanning barcodes, and this feature is limited to mobile phones. It also does not support barcode scanning in forms or automations based on scanned inputs.

You can try out the QuickScan extention. With this extention, you can connect an external barcode scanner to your laptop/tablet, scan items continuously, and have the extension automatically search and update the right Airtable records.

You can configure which fields to update before you start scanning, making the entire process smooth and incredibly fast.