Containers

Containers let you keep track of stock while you move it around your warehouse, for example on a cart or in a crate.

What are containers?

Containers are a type of location. You can store stock in them and they keep a stock history.

A container can be anything you move stock with, such as a shopping cart, a plastic crate or a pallet. Each container has a unique, sequential number and a barcode, so you can easily move stock into it.

Stock in a container counts as free stock. Your store sees it and you can sell the product. Picqer just never puts stock from a container on a picklist. If an order comes in for a product that's only in a container, it stays in backorder until you've moved the product to a location. This way Picqer never sends a picker to a product a colleague is still moving.

Create containers

Create your first containers under Containers. Click 'New container' and choose how many you want. Picqer numbers them automatically.

You then see the list of containers you've created. Click 'Print labels' at the top right to print barcode labels to stick on the containers.

Use containers

You use a container to move stock to and from locations. That's useful for manual movements, receipts, returns and replenishment advice. A container can hold as many products as you like.

Manual movement

Want to move products by hand? Go to the product with stock and click 'Move'. In the movement screen, scan the barcode of the container. Picqer then sets the container as the 'to' location.

Scan a container anywhere else in Picqer and you immediately see which products are in it. From that overview you move the products to other locations.

Receipts

You can book products straight onto a container during a receipt. That way you check the quantities first, before the products are on their final location. Afterwards, you move the products from the container to the right location. Read how this works step by step in register a receipt.

Returns

Containers are also useful for returns. For example, have someone check all returned products for quality first. Products that can still be sold go into a container for the time being.

Once the check is done, move the products from the container to their final location. When you click 'Add to stock' for a returned product, you can pick the container right away.

Replenishment advice

Moving several products at once from bulk to pick locations? Use a container. In the replenishment advice, scan or click the product you took from a bulk location. A movement window opens, where you scan the barcode of the container you want to use. For a step-by-step explanation, see bulk locations and replenishment advice.