Batch settings let you choose how your team picks a batch (Picking mode) and how it ships the batch (Ship mode). Set both in your Batch settings on the Batches page, or in each user's batch settings.
Picking modes
Guided steps (default): SKULabs guides you item by item and bin by bin through the warehouse. You scan each item, then the bin you put it in.
Reverse scanning: scan any item and SKULabs opens the order it belongs to on the single-order picking screen, where you pick, pack and ship it. After you ship, you return to the batch's order list for the next order. When all orders are cleared or shipped, SKULabs moves you to the next batch step (packing slips, batch barcode and more).
Paper pick list: go straight to shipping. A batch pick list prints so your team can start picking while you print the labels.
Paper packing slips: go straight to shipping. Packing slips print so your team can start picking while you print the labels.
No picking: print shipping labels for the batch without a picking step. Print any other documents yourself.
Pick after shipping: ship every order and print its paperwork first, then pick. The label and packing slip travel with the order on the cart. If you leave and come back, the batch resumes where you stopped.
Ship modes
Batch ship (default): ship from the batch screen. Batches ship only the stock picked in that batch.
Bulk ship: when picking is done, SKULabs opens a Bulk ship orders session for the batch's orders. Bulk ship counts all picked stock for each order, including stock picked in other batches (for example, when an order was set aside for missing stock). Use it if you prefer the bulk shipping screen.
Pick list print settings: batch pick list and individual pick lists
In the batch settings you can also choose which pick lists print automatically:
Print batch pick list: one combined pick list for the whole batch.
Print batch individual pick list: one short pick list per order in the batch, the same document as Print individual pick lists on the Orders page.
For each, choose Print when picking a batch, Print when shipping a batch, or leave it blank to never print. If both print at the same step, they come out as one print job: the batch pick list first, then one pick list per order.
Quantity per bin on the batch pick list
On a batch pick list printed with the system default pick list template, the Quantity column breaks each item down by bin. Each line reads Bin N | qty, so you know how many units go into each order's bin.
The qty on each line is what is still left to pick for that bin: ordered, minus already scanned, minus dropshipped.
Bins with nothing left to pick are hidden. If you reprint after scanning part of the batch, the lines show only what remains.
The bin lines add up to the item's remaining quantity and to the Total at the bottom of the pick list.
The same breakdown shows when you print a pick list from the Orders page and enter a Number of orders per pick list. A regular pick list for selected orders shows a single remaining quantity per item, with no bin lines. Custom pick list templates keep their own layout.
Learn more
Not sure which mode fits your warehouse? Email support@skulabs.com to talk with an account manager.