Metlab Warehouse
Warehouse runs picking, packing and dispatch for your Shopify orders. It also handles purchasing, goods in and the cost of your stock. It's for Shopify merchants who pick and pack their own orders, with one person or a whole team.
Picking
Choose the picking method that suits your layout and the number of orders you send each day.
- Single order
- One picker collects one order at a time.
- Batch
- One picker collects several orders in a single trip.
- Wave
- Orders are released in groups at times you set, for example ahead of each courier collection.
- Zone
- Each picker stays in one area and picks only the items stored there.
When an order is picked by more than one person, each part goes into a consolidation bin. The bin wall shows which orders are complete, which are still waiting, and what they're waiting for.
Scanning
Pickers and packers can use a handheld barcode scanner or the camera on a phone, and you can use both in the same warehouse.
You set the scan steps and the order they come in. A picker can be asked to scan the shelf, then each item, then the bin, or only the item. Each scan is checked against the order, and the picker is told straight away if an item is wrong.
Packing and courier labels
Warehouse creates courier labels for An Post, Royal Mail and DPD. You can print the label when the parcel is packed, or have it print as soon as the last part of an order is picked, so it's ready when the order reaches the packing bench.
The tracking number goes back to Shopify and the order is marked as fulfilled.
Purchase orders
Warehouse drafts purchase orders for you. It looks at what you've sold, how long each supplier takes to deliver and how your sales change through the year, then suggests what to order and how many.
You check the draft and change anything you need to. It's then sent in the format that supplier asks for.
Goods in and supplier invoices
When a delivery arrives, scan the items in against the purchase order. Anything missing or extra is shown before you book the delivery in, and stock levels in Shopify update when you do.
Upload the supplier's invoice and Warehouse reads it with AI. Each line is matched to the purchase order and its cost is recorded against that line. If a price is different from the one on the purchase order, the line is marked for you to check.
Stock cost and value
Warehouse keeps an average cost for every product and updates it each time stock arrives at a different price. It sends that cost to the cost per item field in Shopify, so the margin and profit figures in Shopify's reports are based on what you paid.
You can also see the value of your stock at cost on any date, for stock takes and year-end accounts.
Also in Warehouse
Pick lists, packing slips and invoices
Printed from your own templates. If you run more than one store, each store's documents can carry its own logo and details.
Batches and best-before dates
Record batch numbers and best-before dates as stock comes in, and see which batches you hold for each product and when they expire.
Custom fields
Add your own fields to products, such as material or country of origin. Each one syncs with a Shopify metafield, so it can be shown on your store or used by other apps.
Several Shopify stores
Connect more than one Shopify store and they share the same stock. Orders from every store come into one list, marked with the store they came from.
A warehouse and a shop
If you also have a shop, it's set up as its own location, so its stock is counted separately from the warehouse.
Get early access
Early access is for Metlab Warehouse. Tell us about your shop and how you send orders out, and we'll contact you by email.