ShelfSprint

Leaving Stocky · Guide

Bin locations that stay accurate

How do I set up bins without creating a second thing to maintain?

01

Name bins after the place, not the product

A bin is a physical spot. Name it for where it is — A-1, C-14, OVERFLOW-2 — so the label stays correct when the product in it changes. Bins named after products need relabelling every season, and a stockroom of stale labels is worse than no labels.

02

Print labels once, scan them thereafter

Printable QR labels let someone scan a bin to see what should be in it. That is the check that keeps a map accurate over time, and it is far quicker than an audit.

03

The map decays unless something notices

Stock gets moved. The signal that a map has drifted is staff repeatedly reporting a product “not found” in its bin — which is tracked, and raised as an exception once it is a pattern rather than a bad day.

That exception is kept separate from the one meaning Shopify shows stock nobody can find anywhere. They look similar and need different fixes: one is a wrong map, the other is a wrong inventory record.

Common questions

Do I have to map every product before starting?
No. Unmapped products still appear in refill runs, sorted to the end, and there is a report of what is missing. Map the fast movers first and let the rest accumulate.

See what your own Stocky export is missing before the shutdown.

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