On Cloud, an inventory location represents the physical location where you store the inventory-tracked items. Cloud supports three types of inventory locations: Warehouse, Site, and Vehicle.
You need to be a member of the built-in Administrator group to add inventory locations.
When you enable the Inventory Management functionality, the location "Warehouse" is created by default. You can create as many warehouses, sites, and vehicles as you want.
Add inventory locations
To add an inventory location:
1/ Go to “Settings > Inventory > Locations,” and click "New inventory location.”
2/ In the modal, add a name for the location, select the type of location, and specify the address.
If you add a warehouse location with a physical address, Cloud adds the location as one of the company addresses under "Settings > Account > Company Addresses." You can set one of them as the default shipping address to receive shipments from suppliers.
3/ Click “Create.”
Set up warehouse hierarchy
You can set up the warehouse hierarchy by adding zones, aisles, and other levels.
Here's what you need to know before creating the hierarchy.
The warehouse hierarchy has the following levels: Zone > Aisle > Rack > Shelf > Bin.
You can skip a hierarchy level if you don’t use it in your warehouse. For example, you can create aisles without creating zones or create racks under zones.
Once you check in inventory-tracked items to a non-warehouse location, you cannot delete that location unless you move the items to another location.
To add a zone or other level:
1/ Click the 3-dot menu of the warehouse and click “Create new zone.”
2/ In the modal, change the level if needed and add a name for it.
3/ Click “Create.”
The new level under the warehouse will be indented to the right. You can add more levels at the same hierarchy or under other levels.
Here is an example of the warehouse hierarchy.
Print QR labels for locations
If you want to use the USB Scanner integration to choose the inventory location when moving items across locations or receiving them, you can print QR labels for the inventory locations as a PDF. The labels print in the label format you set up under "Settings > Inventory > QR Labels."
Check out this article for more details.
To print the QR labels for locations, do one of the following:
Click the 3-dot menu for a location, then click "Print label for this location" or "Print label for this location and sublocations" to print labels for that location.
Click "Print location labels" at the top-right corner to print labels for all locations.
Once the labels are printed, point the USB scanner at the location label in the PDF file, and Cloud automatically selects the location in the dropdown in the Scan modal and the modal for checking in items from purchase orders.