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Zebra MC9400 Series

Cold storage · harsh sites · long-range scanning

Zebra MC9400 Series
Why this one

The MC9000 line has been the default in the harshest warehouses for over twenty years, and the MC9400 is its current form. It exists for the sites that get through other hardware: freezers, dust, chemicals, constant drops.

Two options matter most for stocktaking. Freezer variants handle the condensation that kills ordinary devices moving between a cold store and a loading dock. Long-range scanning reads a label many metres up a rack, so nobody puts a person on a forklift to count a top shelf.

With Stocktakes Online

How it counts.

Everything about Stocktakes Online works identically here — but two things specific to this device matter on the portal.

Long-range scanning changes how a count is organised: an operator can stand in the aisle and read levels above them, so bins are counted in vertical runs rather than by lifting somebody. And in a freezer, where nobody wants to stand still, the bin lock matters more than anywhere — the operator scans the location once and works the bay without re-scanning it in gloves.

At a glance

What it is.

Form factor
Rugged gun-grip mobile computer
Best for
Cold storage, heavy industry, long-range scanning
Scanning
Long-range engine options for high racking
Data entry
Physical keypad, multiple layouts
Environment
Freezer and non-incendive variants available

A summary, not a specification. Zebra's own datasheet below carries the detail, and we confirm the exact variant, scan engine and accessories when we quote.

The device

Closer up.

Product photography supplied by Zebra. We will add pictures of these in our customers' warehouses as counts are completed.

What it costs

Two kits, with nothing left to buy.

A scanner on its own cannot finish a stocktake — there is nothing to charge it in and nothing to swap when the battery goes. Each of these is everything one operator needs, working, out of the box. They differ in one part: the scanner itself.

Which one? The freezer model is built to go from a cold store into a loading dock and back without condensation stopping it — a scanner that fogs up or ices over is a scanner nobody is counting with. If nothing you count is below freezing, the standard one is the same device for three hundred dollars less, and it has a camera.

In both kits

Spare battery
Spare batteryBTRY-MC93-STN-01
Charge cradle
Charge cradleCRD-MC93-2SUCHG-01
Power supply
Power supplyPWR-BGA12V50W0WW
DC cable
DC cableCBL-DC-388A1-01
Power cord
Power cordCAIEC
USB cable
USB cableCBL-TC5X-USBC2A-01

Every kit below includes all six. The two options differ in one part only — the scanner — and each table still lists and prices the lot.

Standard — extended range, 53 keyscurrently in stock

$3,999 inc GST · one complete scanner · hardware only
PartWhat it is forInc GST
Zebra MC9400 scanner, extended rangeMC9401-0G1R6DSS-A6 2D extended range imager, 53-key, 6 GB / 128 GB, camera, Android with Google services $3,363.00
Charge cradle and USB dockCRD-MC93-2SUCHG-01 Single bay, charges the scanner, a spare battery at once and talks to a PC. Fits the MC9300 and MC9400 alike $317.00
Power supplyPWR-BGA12V50W0WW For the charging cradle $79.00
DC cableCBL-DC-388A1-01 Connects power supply to cradle $16.00
Power cordCAIEC IEC lead with an Australian plug $8.00
USB cableCBL-TC5X-USBC2A-01 USB-A to USB-C, 1 m — for staging the device from a PC $17.00
Spare extended batteryBTRY-MC93-STN-01 PowerPrecision Li-ion, 7000 mAh — the second shift, and the one that saves a count $199.00
Complete kit$3,999.00

Freezer — extended range, 53 keyscurrently in stock

$4,299 inc GST · one complete scanner · hardware only
PartWhat it is forInc GST
Zebra MC9400 scanner, freezer modelMC9401-0G1M6DCS-A6 2D extended range imager, 53-key, 6 GB / 128 GB, built for cold store and the moving in and out of it. No camera on this one. $3,663.00
Charge cradle and USB dockCRD-MC93-2SUCHG-01 Single bay, charges the scanner, a spare battery at once and talks to a PC. Fits the MC9300 and MC9400 alike $317.00
Power supplyPWR-BGA12V50W0WW For the charging cradle $79.00
DC cableCBL-DC-388A1-01 Connects power supply to cradle $16.00
Power cordCAIEC IEC lead with an Australian plug $8.00
USB cableCBL-TC5X-USBC2A-01 USB-A to USB-C, 1 m — for staging the device from a PC $17.00
Spare extended batteryBTRY-MC93-STN-01 PowerPrecision Li-ion, 7000 mAh — the second shift, and the one that saves a count $199.00
Complete kit$4,299.00

Fifty-three keys, and the numbers are the big ones. This is the keypad people reach for when the count matters more than the screen — typed without looking, with gloves on, in a building where you would not want to be tapping glass. Stocktakes Online has a keypad-first counting screen built for exactly that: bin, part and count on one form, typed and saved.

Extended range reads the top beam from the floor. If your racking runs high, this is the difference between counting a bay and fetching a ladder to count a bay.

This is hardware. The software is separate. Stocktakes Online is licensed per stocktake, from $110 inc GST — see pricing. Buying a scanner does not include a licence to count with it, and a licence does not include a scanner.

Counting with more than one scanner? Ask us before buying cradles. A multi-bay charger costs less than several single ones and takes up a fraction of the bench.

And then what

A scanner is where a count starts, not where it ends.

On its own, a scan is a beep. What makes a device worth buying is what comes off it — and with Stocktakes Online, nothing comes off the device at all, because it stores nothing. Every scan is a live call to the portal as it is made, checked against your own parts and bin locations.

What was counted

Totals by bin, by site and by company, live while the count is still running — not assembled afterwards from sheets of paper by somebody with a calculator.

What was not

Unscanned parts, unscanned bin locations, and the bins somebody marked as empty. On a site where stock sits four metres up or behind a freezer door, that is precisely the stock most likely to be skipped. The long-range engine is what lets somebody count it from the floor. The unscanned report is what shows whether they did.

Who counted it

Every figure attributable to an operator and a device, with the raw scans still behind it. On screen, printed as a document, or straight into Excel.

Ten reports, and the same three rules behind every figure. See what comes out →

Is this the right one for your site?

Tell us the aisle widths, whether it is a freezer, how far the operator walks and how many hours a shift. We would rather send a device that fits than the most expensive one in the range.

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