Bins

Bins (/inventory/bins) is the master list of the places stock can sit, plus the tools to create them in bulk and label them.

Bin types

A bin has a type, and the type is what tells the app how to treat what is in it:

Type	Holds
Receiving	Goods just booked in, awaiting putaway
Quality check	Stock held for inspection
Quarantine	Damaged or suspect stock, not sellable
Bulk storage	Reserve stock, not picked from directly
Pick bin	Where pickers actually go
Packing	At the pack bench
Staging	Marshalled for despatch or production
Returns	Goods received back, awaiting grading

The bulk/pick split is what makes automatic refills possible: pickers only ever visit pick bins, and Placement tops those up from bulk.

Creating bins in bulk

Nobody types in four hundred bin names. The bulk location generator creates them from a pattern — a range of aisles, bays and levels becomes a full set of locations in one action.

The warehouse shape

The bins list is the flat view. The shape of the warehouse is set up on the warehouse’s Layout tab (Settings → Warehouses → your warehouse):

A template picker for common layouts.
A grid generator that creates hundreds of locations at once.
A 2D map you can colour-code by fill.
Zones, aisles, racks and shelves — or flat bins and floor positions for oversized goods.

Labels

Bins are scanned, so they need labels. Bin label printing is built into this tab, and works with the same PrintNode setup as shipping labels — or as a PDF you print yourself.

Label text supports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic letters, including accented names. Other scripts and emoji show a message before printing. Enlarge the text box or reduce its type size if a name does not fit, then check the PDF before printing a batch. Barcode values are kept unchanged.