There are only three employees in our warehouse, and recently the number of orders has surged, especially bulk orders on Amazon and Shopify. At my warehouse in Los Angeles, California, I have to spend several hours every day manually printing waybills, picking lists, and packing lists, and then pasting them one by one. The efficiency is really too low, and the pressure is overwhelming. Every time during the peak period, I feel like I can’t keep up. Are there any tools that can help us optimize this process, allowing small teams to quickly handle large quantities of orders?
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Hey @JolineChan,
Managing bulk orders manually can get overwhelming fast, especially with a small team. A great way to simplify this is by using our PluginHive’s Multi Carrier Shipping Label app, which lets you print waybills, packing slips, and picklists for hundreds of orders in just a few clicks instead of doing them one by one.
It’s built to handle exactly this kind of scaling challenge. On top of that, you can also display live carrier rates at checkout, request pickups directly from your dashboard, and send live tracking updates to customers automatically, helping you save time and improve customer satisfaction at once.
What do you mean like glueing papers together, or copy and pasting in which case why can’t you just send them to the printer(s) etc.
Sometimes this can just be a hardware issue if your trying to run a business using a consumer print and consumer print-software those things come with.
Or a desktop automation issue, if on mac use things like automator, on windows there’s stuff like power-automation by microsoft or powershell
Then there’s what your printing and why, if your having to collate/conditional choose things you likely need to build a custom process.
Such as sending order details to a spreadsheet and printing that.
Shopify-flow has a connector to gsheets as does the mechanic app.
Or building custom pdf templates to fit needs, or even mails like with an automation app like mechanic.
Reach out if you need automations like that to get going.
I totally get what you mean — a small warehouse team handling a big wave of orders can get overwhelming fast. Printing waybills, packing slips, and pick lists one by one eats up so much time.
That’s actually why we built the Ship by SKU Groups feature in 4Seller ERP. It lets you print everything — labels, packing slips, pick lists — grouped by SKU instead of by order.
So instead of running back and forth between shelves, you can pick all the same SKU items at once, stick on the pre-printed labels, and move on to the next batch. No more matching each order manually, and it cuts down picking time by a lot.
We’ve seen small teams like yours save hours every day and reduce mistakes almost completely. It really helps during busy seasons when every minute counts.
If you want to see how it works, we actually wrote a short article about it: How to Streamline Warehouse Packaging: 4Seller’s Ship by SKU Group Feature Explained