Our ISO products can be purchased either from the ISO Store or from the ISO national member body. ISO Store All items available for purchase have an associated shopping basket function on the right side of the page. Here, you can choose the format (Paper, PDF and ePub) and the language of the publication.

ISO Member:

Orders for ISO Standards and other ISO Publications can be addressed to your national  ISO Member. Some members can offer a personalized service and give technical feedback on certain standards. The main benefit of ordering through your national member is that with them, you can purchase ISO Products in your local currency.

The Online Browsing Platform is a platform created by ISO that allows you to search and access our standards online. On the OBP you can freely preview parts of the standards (Foreword, Introduction, Scope, Normative references or Terms & definitions). This can help you decide whether it is the right standard you are looking for. The OBP is also used to access and purchase Graphical Symbols & Symbol Collections, Country Codes, Terms & Definitions.

No, it is not possible to consult your library offline. But you can have offline access to any file you have previously downloaded to your computer.

Prices for ISO publications ordered from the ISO Store are expressed in Swiss Francs (CHF) and can only be invoiced in this currency. If you wish to convert the price of any ISO publication into your local currency, you can find a currency converter at www.oanda.com. To purchase standards in your local currency, you can contact your national  ISO Member.

As our Terms & Conditions, you can pay for your order with a credit card (MasterCard, Visa, and American Express) or by bank transfer. No debit cards are accepted. Your credit card information will be secure with the use of our Secure Transaction System. (See also our Privacy Policy ). For payment by bank transfer, the payment must mention your order number.

Note: All bank charges have to be paid by the purchaser. If you choose this payment method, you will receive an email with the bank information. Bank transfers can take around 3 working days to be processed.

As per our Terms & Conditions, local taxes are applied to online orders delivered in Switzerland only. For international orders, no taxes are charged. If there are taxes to be paid outside of Switzerland, they are the customers' responsibility.

The ISO Store is dedicated to end users only and not resellers. If you are interested in reselling ISO products, please contact your national ISO Member for further information.

Note: Please read carefully the terms of our License Agreement before placing your order. 

Creating an Account:

• Go to the Online Browsing Platform and click "Sign In" on the top right corner.
• Click "Create Account" and enter the information required.
• You will receive an email confirmation and will be asked to validate your account.

Editing your Account Information:

Go to your Account and click on "Profile". There you will be able to change the information you need. Note that this information is the one that will be displayed on your invoice, so make sure you keep it updated. The account is personal and the contact information needs to be properly indicated for a single user, and not a company. If you wish to modify the email address in your account, please contact the customer service.  

Once you have made the payment and received an order confirmation, the electronic document can be downloaded from your online account. You will find the document under the "Products" tab, where you can either view it online or download it to your computer. It is important to know that all electronic files are subject to  ISO Copyright, which you will need to comply with.

Referring to our Terms & Conditions, if you need a copy of your invoice, you need to log into your Account. Under the "Orders tab", select your invoice and press the "Email" button. A copy will be sent to you by email. ISO regrets to inform you that once an order has been confirmed and an invoice has been generated, the invoice information can no longer be modified. Therefore please make sure that all the Account information is up to date.  

As per our Terms & Conditions, if you purchased a product in CD or paper format , then it will be shipped to you according to your selected delivery method:

• Standard Delivery: 4-10 business days , no tracking possibilities
• Express Delivery (DHL): 2-4 business days, tracking number available

Shipments are sent out from the ISO Central Secretariat in Switzerland, either on the same day or the next business day, after we receive your payment.

Note: Shipments to Mexico will only by sent by Express delivery and shipments to Switzerland, only by Standard delivery. PDF files have to be downloaded directly from your online account: Go to your ISO Store account.

As per our Terms & Conditions, except in the case of an error made by the ISO Central Secretariat, ISO does not accept returns, nor provide a refund for PDF and ePub documents. For physical documents (paper or CD-ROM), the return has to be accepted by the ISO Central Secretariat first, who will explain the procedure to follow. Please note that orders will be credited only upon receipt of the returned goods.

Information: Should you have any doubts about a standard you are interested in, you can refer to our Online Browsing Platform (OBP) where you can preview different sections of the standard free of charge. For more complete information, you can also contact our Customer Service team or the ISO member in your country.  

ISO publications come with a single-user licence. When you purchase a standard from the ISO Store, the document(s) can be assigned for your personal individual use (“You”) or for use by your colleague(s) (“someone else”) within your company. The document will be watermarked in the user’s name.

If you wish to post standards on your company’s Intranet for access by multiple users, please contact us or your ISO Member to explore the options.

Note: The ISO Store is dedicated to end users only and not resellers. If you are interested in reselling ISO products, please contact your national ISO Member for further information.

The electronic documents can be accessed from your Account . You will find the document under the "Products" tab, where you can either view it online on the  Online Browsing Platform (OBP)  or download it to your computer. It is important to know that all electronic files are subject to ISO Copyright, which you will need to comply with. If you purchased a product in CD or paper format, then it will be shipped to you according to your selected delivery method:

• Standard Delivery : 4-10 business days, sent via standard mail, no tracking possibility,
• Express Delivery : 2-4 business days, sent via DHL with tracking number available

Shipments are sent out from the ISO Central Secretariat in Switzerland, either on the same day or the next business day, after we receive your payment.

If you purchase a hardcopy, you are allowed to share it with any person that wants to read it. However, you cannot copy the text by scanning it, photocopying it, or reproducing it in any other way. For electronic files, you can store them on any device, and you are allowed to print one copy for your own personal needs. However, you are not allowed to make copies or transfer the electronic file, or reproduce parts of it. For more information, please contact us at  copyright@iso.org.

PDF is a file format created by Adobe. In order to open and read the PDF files you have purchased you will need to have the  Acrobat Reader Software installed on your computer. PDF files are provided in either character-based format or, for older documents, in TIFF image-based format. All PDF files purchased from the ISO Store are watermarked in order to protect  ISO Copyright.

ePub is short for "electronic publication". It is a format optimized for tablets, e-readers and smartphones. It allows you to easily navigate the publication on a small, touch screen. On iOS, you can download iBooks from the AppStore for an optimized reading experience. To add the file to your Apple device, you can download the file from your Account and add it to the iTunes Library. For Android, you can download FBReader from Google Play.

All downloadable standards are watermarked. The ISO Central Secretariat uses watermarks in order to protect  ISO's Copyright. A watermark is additional information that has been added to a document to identify the rightful licensee of the document. Using a watermark is a means of personalizing each standard that you download. By default, the watermark in the PDF file displays (on each page of the document) the order number, the download date and the email address of the contact provided in the Account. Example of a watermark:

Withdrawn standards are available for sale in PDF or paper version, for the price of CHF 63.00 (+ Shipping & Handling for the paper copy). Withdrawn standards can only be purchased by contacting the ISO Customer Care Team, Opening Hours: Monday to Friday, from 9:00 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 17:00 (UTC +1).

• Phone: +41 22 749 08 88
• Email:  customerservice@iso.org

Or by contacting your national ISO member directly.

If you have purchased a standard and a corrigenda has been published, it will automatically be added to your Account. Alternatively, you can access it for free on the Online Browsing Platform.

Purchasing the Draft version of a standard (ISO/DIS) doesn't grant you to have its final version for free. Draft versions are subject to changes, hence the final publication will have to be purchased as well.

A Redline document compares the current standard with the previous edition. It allows you to see any updates made at a glance, by highlighting in red, all the parts that were removed from the previous edition, and by highlighting in green the new parts that were added. Redline documents are not sold separately but as a bundle, included with the standard.

Information: Redline documents are only available for some standards.

As indicated in our Licence Agreement, standards cannot be shared with other users or posted on a company intranet. If you wish to do so, please contact your national  ISO member, who will be able to offer a suitable licence.

The  country codes collection is an annual subscription that provides you with the complete updated lists of official country codes from ISO 3166 (parts 1, 2 and 3) in .XML, .CSV and .XLS format so you can download them to your database. With the subscription you will also receive notifications of any updates.

You have to go to the Online Browsing Platform and access to your Account. You will find your collection under the "Subscriptions" tab.

The Country Codes can be downloaded to your database and used in order to implement the standard ISO 3166. However, selling them to others and further reproduction is not permitted.

Updates are included in your subscription. You will be notified when changes are made so you can download the latest versions.

Your subscription is automatically renewed every year, which means that you will keep receiving updates until you stop the auto-renewal. This is easy to do through from  your account and will be effective immediately.