Floor Mode

Floor Mode (/floor) is the screen the people doing the work actually use. No admin chrome, giant tap targets, one job at a time.

It is the last nav entry on purpose: opening it leaves the admin behind. The whole shell is replaced by the scanner surface.

On this page

• The five jobs
• Where you work, and the ⋯ menu
• Scanning with the phone camera
• Install it on the phone or tablet
• The same work as the office
• No search on the floor
• Where to next

The five jobs

Pick One line at a time: scan bin, scan item, confirm quantity.

Production pick Pick a work order's components to the staging bin.

Pack Scan every item of the parcel, then box, weigh and verify.

Receive Scan the item, confirm the quantity, scan the putaway bin.

Count Scan the bin, scan the item, enter what is really there.

Where you work, and the ⋯ menu

Today starts with where you work: a zone or a station. Someone working zone A opens the app onto zone A’s work and nothing else.

Everything else sits behind ⋯ in the top corner of every screen, so the task keeps the screen:

• This line and This task — what the job allows right now, such as reporting a bin empty or giving a pick list back.
• This device — the screen (Bright, Dim, or follow the device), the text size, whether this device has a scanner, and on a shared scanner who is signed in (Lock screen, or Not you?).

A person holding a scanner and a box needs the next job, not a settings page: these few choices are all the floor has.

Scanning with the phone camera

No scanner at hand? Every scan field has Scan with camera. Point the camera at the barcode; a read counts like a scanned code. Hold a label in view and it counts once; move the camera away and back to scan it again. The camera turns off when you close it or leave the screen.

The camera reads the common barcodes on items, bins and labels (EAN, UPC, Code 128, Code 39, QR and Data Matrix).

Note

Inside the Shopify admin the browser may refuse the camera. Then open Floor Mode in its own tab, or install it (below), and allow the camera when the phone asks.

Install it on the phone or tablet

Floor Mode can live on the home screen like an app. On Android, open it in Chrome and choose Install app or Add to Home screen. On an iPhone or iPad, open it in Safari, tap Share and then Add to Home Screen. It opens full screen, straight into the floor, and still signs in with your Floormode login.

The same work as the office

Floor Mode is the same Floormode, drawn for the floor: the same orders, the same pick lists, the same stock — full screen instead of inside the admin.

That is why the floor and the office never disagree: a pick confirmed on a tablet in the aisle is the same record the office sees update in the queue, not a copy that catches up later.

Floor Mode is also reachable in standalone mode, at its own URL with its own login — which is how warehouse staff who have no Shopify admin account get to it on a shared tablet.

No search on the floor

Caution

Floor Mode deliberately has no search box and no ⌘K shortcut. A scanner gun is a keyboard that types fast; if a search overlay could open mid-pick, a barcode scan would open it and swallow the rest of the scan. This is a safety property.

Where to next

• Fulfillment queue — where floor work is handed out.
• Search everything — and why it stops at the floor.
• Zones, stations & staff — defining the scopes.
• Wallboard, work area & inspect — the floor’s other three screens.

Last updated: 25 October 2026