Floor receive

The receiver’s screen (/floor/receive/:id): book a delivery in by scanning. The office can book the same receipt at the desk, with Receive on a line in Receiving. Both write the same receipt.

On this page

• The loop
• Putaway: in the same pass, or later
• Over-receipt and capacity
• See also

The loop

1. Scan the item — identifies what arrived.
2. Confirm the quantity — how many of it.
3. Scan the putaway bin — where it is going.

Repeat until the delivery is booked in. The receipt moves from Expected to Being received on the first line and to Received when it is complete.

Putaway: in the same pass, or later

With the warehouse’s receiving policy Straight to a shelf, confirming the bin in the same loop means putawayPutawayMoving received goods from the receiving area to the bin they belong in. With the receiving policy **Straight to a shelf** it happens during receiving; with a dock policy a put-away task follows the receipt (after the inspection, where the policy inspects). A work order's finished goods that Floormode books onto the workbench bin `WO-STAGE-01` get a put-away task too; an output that needs the receiver (serial numbers, or a date Floormode cannot work out) is received on its receipt instead. Read more → happens as goods are received. With Dock, put away later the goods are booked into DOCK-01 and a put-away task follows; with Dock with inspection they are booked into QC-IN-01, inspected, and the passed units get a put-away task. The policy is set per warehouse (Receiving lists all three).

Tip

Receiving to a dock and putting away later is where inbound stock goes missing on the floor: it sits on a pallet by the door, not in the bin a picker walks to. Floormode never offers it for sale meanwhile. Goods on the dock or in inspection are on hand, and become sellable once a put-away task brings them to a shelf.

Scanning the destination bin as part of receiving skips the dock entirely.

Where Placement is configured, the screen proposes the home bin rather than making the receiver decide.

Over-receipt and capacity

Two guards apply as you confirm quantities:

• Over-receipt tolerance — a per-warehouse policy for how much more than expected the floor may book in before the app pushes back.
• Capacity warnings — where the destination location has a capacity set, putaway warns if the delivery will not fit. A location with no capacity set is treated as unlimited, never as zero.

Anything received that does not match expectations becomes a discrepancyDiscrepancyAny difference between what the system expected and what was physically found — on a receipt, at a bin during picking, or in a count. Read more → on the receipt, visible to the office rather than absorbed silently.

See also

• Receiving — the office view and receipt statuses.
• Placement — the rules behind the proposed bin.
• Item dimensions & capacity — where capacity warnings come from.

Last updated: 25 October 2026