Barcodes store important information and make retrieving that information easy. For example, you can scan a barcode for an inventory item and view data like the item description, current quantity, wholesale price, retail price, and more.
Location barcodes contain data for specific locations in your warehouse such as a bin, a row, a rack, or more. When you are processing new inventory during the intake process, you can scan a location barcode and have that location added to the item's record.
This helps your fulfillment team quickly locate purchased items within your warehouse. You can also scan and change an inventory item's location if you are consolidating products into one location or rearranging your warehouse.
How Location Barcodes Benefit Your Shop
- Scanning location changes saves your team significant time.
- Easily consolidate remaining variants of an item into one location.
- Access and view location history for an item.
Choose Your Change Location Mode
Before you get started scanning inventory items and assigning them to new locations, you'll want to select your mode. This will tell CommentSold what items you'll be moving (a single variant vs. an entire product SKU) and if you'll be moving it to a single location or multiple locations.
We recommend you always double-check the mode before you start scanning. This setting is not user-specific, meaning if another member of your team has changed the mode during a previous scanning section, then it will be changed for your upcoming session.
- Select Inventory Logs in the side menu of your CommentSold dashboard.
- Select Change Product Location in the menu at the top of the page.
- Select Mode in the top-right corner of the page, then select the options you need:
- Single Variant. Select this option if you will be moving single variants of one (or more) products (e.g., only the gold hoop earrings, only the vanilla candle, etc.).
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All Variants. Select this option if you will be moving all variants of a product. You can think of this as scanning an entire SKU.
- Note: There is no way to scan a few variants of a product. You would need to select the Single Variant option if you wish to move two or more variants of a product.
- Single Location. Select this option if you will be moving the variant or product (all variants) to a single location (e.g., a single bin, rack, etc.).
- Multiple Locations. Select this option if you will be distributing a single variant or product (all variants) across multiple locations (e.g., multiple bins, racks, etc.).
- Once you've selected your options, select Save.
Change Variant or Product to Single Location
Changing the location of a variant or product to a single location involves two steps: scanning the variant or product barcode and scanning the new location barcode.
- Scan the barcode for the product whose location you wish to change.
- If changing the location of a single variant, scan the barcode for the specific variant (size, color, etc.).
- If changing the location of an entire product (all variants), simply scan any variant for the product.
- Review details:
- Confirm that the scanned barcode pulled up information for the correct Scanned Variant or Scanned Product.
- Confirm your Shelf Count. This is the number of units you'll be physically relocating.
- Review the Current Location(s).
- Review Product Notes if any.
- Confirm Mode. If you need to change your mode, select Select Mode in the top-right corner of the page.
- Scan the barcode for the single location (e.g., a bin, rack, etc.) where you wish to move a single variant or product (all variants).
- A green banner at the top of the page will alert you to a successful location change with a summary of the variant(s) moved and the new location.
- You can also review the location update in the Location History section at the bottom of the page.
Change Variant or Product to Multiple Locations
When you first stock a product, or if you're restocking one of your most popular products, you could be juggling a large number of units either in single or multiple variants. Because of this, you might consider distributing a variant or product (all variants) across multiple locations (e.g., multiple bins, racks, etc.).
This process has two steps: scanning the variant or product barcode and scanning the new location barcodes.
- Scan the barcode for the product whose location you wish to change.
- If changing the location of a single variant, scan the barcode for the specific variant (size, color, etc.).
- If changing the location of an entire product (all variants), simply scan any variant for the product.
- Review details:
- Confirm that the scanned barcode pulled up information for the correct Scanned Variant or Scanned Product.
- Confirm your Shelf Count. This is the number of units you'll be physically relocating.
- Review the Current Location(s).
- Review Product Notes if any.
- Confirm Mode. If you need to change your mode, select Select Mode in the top-right corner of the page.
- Scan the barcode for each location (e.g., a bin, rack, etc.) where you wish to move a single variant or product (all variants). You will be able to view each location under Scanned Locations as you add them.
- Once you have finished scanning the barcodes for the necessary locations, scan the Scan to Save Locations barcode in the center of the right side of the page.
- A green banner at the top of the page will alert you to a successful location change with a summary of the variant(s) moved and the new locations.
- You can also review the location update in the Location History section at the bottom of the page.
Troubleshooting Issues
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