Yes ! I need this option as well. for now i am adding to the barcode section and I will most likely pull and updated CSV file once a week to export and use that to “Locate” my items during fulfillment
Yeah, so we added locations to the barcode and then added a barcode column to our packaging slips as a workaround. It prints then with the SKU, NAME, BARCODE (which is location)
We have updated our app Power Tools with several new features, maybe it helps with your workflow:
- iOS & Android App to manage inventory, pick list and bin locations
- Improved Shopify App to assign bin locations
- Auto generated Pick Lists for new orders
- Unlimited Users
- Free Trial for 14 days
I’m using the SKU fiels to add the bin location like this AAA-999-99 I 00A00
00A00 is the bin location
- Easy to print on an invoice or packing slip (nothing to do)
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Create issues when we change the location code… It is changing the SKU so we loose sync with other stores
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Can’t sort products by location
I’m still searching for an app
Hi @LuisaP
We have a better solution…
You can’t create new fields against Shopify products. Use metafields or an app with its own DB to store those relationships.
For Packing slips we’ve got it figured out. Would be interested in getting our app working for invoices. Locations is a solvable problem as well.
Best,
Sam- Owner / Lead Developer
I added the bin number as a product property inside of the product form. You set it up in a product metafield and the property grabs it and passes it to checkout. You can pull these in on Shopify packing slips through the line_item.properties AND bonus --Shipstation automatically pulls them in.
Here is the code I wrote to add it to my product section in Dawn.
<input type=“hidden” id=“bin-number” value={{ product.metafields.my_fields.bin_number }}" name=“properties[Bin Number]”>
Hope that saves you from buying an app!
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Hi Hi - We’ve setup the bin locations “product.metafields.my_fields.bin_location”, do we just add this to the product template? Where do we add this code specifically for it to be a field available in ShipStation?
Thanks in advance!
Because line items can read properties I setup the bin as a metafield (you can do it at either product or variant level) and pick it up as a property.
In the packing slip I read that property:
{% for field in line_item.properties %}
Bin Location:
{{ field | last }}
{% endfor %}
Hey @hp2020 while your question is older and perhaps you have found an answer already, there seems to be many others looking for a solution here still. Many of the solutions presented here are half-measures that will likely cause more headache than solving the problem. Furthermore, this solution offers a 100% free plan for merchants with less than 50 orders per month.
I’d like to present a new all encompassing WMS solution to this problem of bin locations as well as many other key areas you would likely need to string together multiple apps but is now included in one - SKUSavvy.
Bin locations on SKUSavvy can use an exact model of your warehouse using a visual warehouse builder (seen below). The visual warehouse layout is built to solve many problems of modern day warehouse management systems by providing a much quicker, easier to use method of finding and allocating inventory effectively. Visual bin locations make it super clear where the next product to pick is. Visual bins are easier to locate and provide no room for ambiguity about where a product is located.
I hope anyone looking to add bin locations to their Shopify inventory will consider SKUSavvy visual warehouse management system, in it you can find all the below features and more coming all the time:
- Connect in a dual sync with Shopify to pull locations, products, inventory, orders, and customers
- Place purchase orders and issue PO approval
- Check-in inventory against the PO using visual bins for allocation and barcode scanning for accuracy
- Built-in barcode scanning
- Product dimensional information, barcoding, units of measure, variants etc.
- Inventory management and automated replenishment
- Visual warehouse layout with bin locations and barcoded labels
- Full mobile warehouse management
- Order management system with intelligent order batching for faster picking
- Visual picking with automated path finding for shorter travel distance to gather more products to fulfill more orders with one pick path
- 35+ carrier connections
- Built-in fulfillment module with live rates, 3D palletization, and shipping label printing
- Real-time inventory
- Automated order updates and tracking information
- Cross-docking workflows
- Kitting (bundles)
- Employee management
For many merchants, adding another app is not ideal, that’s why SKUSavvy is priced to scale directly with your order volume and most often replaces 2-3 apps with one.
Use SKUSavvy free for 50 orders/month then just $0.19-$0.04/order - calculate your cost
We are a greenhouse complex that ships all over the country and also a facility where people can come shop in person. Think of us like a large warehouse with at least 12 areas (shelves?) and specific locations with in those areas (bins?), for holding plants. Our current method of finding a plant (shippers and POS employees) is, for example, if I need to find a Legacy blueberry in a Qt. pot, a master list report will tell me it is in Greenhouse #1 on the 3rd table on the left, written as 1T3L. Plants sometimes have multiple locations for the same size plant, i.e.: if I have 200 Legacy blueberries in Qt. pots there may be 100 at 1T3L and 100 at 1T6R.
Our needs are:
A: To be able to have a simple live master list for POS folks to refer to when finding plants for customers that will pull from Shopify for availability of that plant. (Bottom example)
B: To have a pick list for weekly shipping with locations that will pull from Shopify for orders to be shipped that week. Since we are not just pulling t-shirts off a shelf (shipping plants safely is an endeavor), we have a weekly shipping pick list printed and it usually takes the crew anywhere from 2 to 5 days to complete that list. Specifically, just printing a stack of orders, and gathering each order individually will create a lot of running back and forth. So a master pick list that will tell gatherers, “10 Legacy blueberries in Qt. pots are needed for shipping this week at 1T3L and 1T6R”. Once all plants are gathered from their various locations, then we can assemble individual orders from the plants gathered from the master list. (Top example)
We were told we could use Metafields for locations, but can’t seem to find a way to access those in a way that we can get the above 2 reports. Some of the other apps way overcomplicate what we need.
With all that said, just need simple and inexpensive. Can your program help me?
Below are examples of what we use now.
Thanks, George
Hey @EdibleLandGS check SKUSavvy, you’ll have each of these issues solved with a visual warehouse layout, and the ability to bulk pick with visual guidance through the warehouse.
So how abut some more info on this Bin Location app? Your link doesn’t work.
Is this available on the Shopify app store? My company is very interested in this! We just need to print pick and pack lists from Shopify that have a BIN location (metafield or whatever) listed along with the products in the orders. Seems simple but the only other solutions we’ve found are entire WMS’s - which we don’t want to get! Please let me know!