Zones split a warehouse into areas with their own conditions, such as a cold room, a dangerous goods cage or a bulk area. Together with bin sizes, location type defaults, the storage needs of your items and your own dangerous goods classes, they help QrX advise the right bin at put-away and send pickers through the warehouse in the right order. Containers can carry an SSCC, and you can set the ABC class of an item by hand. Warehouse stock is part of QrX WMS.

On the Zones tab of a warehouse, click Add zone and fill in:

Give bins their zone in the location editor. Changing a zone code updates its bins, count plans and batch presets. Only a zone without bins can be archived. A warehouse has at most 200 zones.

Use Block bin on a location and choose a reason under Blocked because. The reasons are your managed reason codes for Location block (Settings > Warehouse > Reason codes): the system reasons Damaged, Maintenance, Obstructed, Pest control, Temperature out of range, Safety, Inventory hold and Other, plus your own. A reason can ask for a note and photos (up to 5); Other always needs a note. A blocked bin is skipped by put-away and picking until you make it active again with Make bin active again. Its stock stays where it is and is still sold. To stop goods from being sold, use Block stock: it moves them to quarantine. Filter the location list on Blocked bins to see them all.

A location type, for example Pallet, Shelf or Cold, holds defaults for its bins and containers: size, max weight, max volume, max units, the default role (pick or bulk), one item only, Mixed lots (off keeps one lot per bin), storage conditions, Dangerous goods allowed, Stackable and the Container empty weight (kg). A new bin of that type takes its role and storage defaults; empty capacity fields follow the type. Put-away fills empty bins of an item's preferred type first.

When QrX suggests a bin, it prefers a bin that already holds the item, then empty bins of the preferred type that match the storage conditions and dangerous goods approval, fit the units, weight and volume, and come first in the zone put-away order. A suggestion can show a warning: More than the bin holds, Too heavy for this bin, Does not fit the volume, Other storage condition or Not approved for dangerous goods. Warnings never stop you.

On the Storage and dangerous goods tab of a stock item:

On the General tab you can upload an own Image of the item (JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 10 MB). Pickers and receiving see it; without an own image, the image of the linked product shows. The stock list can be filtered on storage condition, dangerous goods class and ABC class.

The Classes tab under Dangerous goods rules lists the system classes (lithium battery, limited quantity, aerosol, flammable) and your own. Click Add class for an own class, for example corrosive: a code (2 to 40 small letters, digits or underscore), a name, an optional ADR class (for example 3, 4.1 or 8) and a note. Give items the class and add rules for it per carrier on the Rules tab. QrX checks the rules every time it buys a label (at the pack station, when an order is created with a label, and for labels bought later or from the Print Queue) and does not buy a label for an order that breaks a rule. See "Customs Data and Dangerous Goods Checks on Shipments". A system class can be hidden but not deleted. An own class can be archived when no item or rule uses it; to stop new use but keep it on items, hide it.

A container (pallet, crate or roll cage) now has an SSCC, an empty weight, a size, a max weight and a Status: Open, Closed, Damaged, Lost or Retired.

In the QrX app, Scan a container shows the contents of a container; scanning a product then finds its line whichever barcode of the product you scan, also for stock held for a merchant.

A locations import can carry the columns bay, level, position, length_mm, width_mm, height_mm, max_weight_g and max_volume_cm3. Zone codes in the file that are not a zone yet are listed in the preview and created with the code as name. You can export zones, and the location and stock item exports include the new fields. See "Export Warehouse Lists to CSV or Excel".

Capacity is advice. QrX ranks fitting bins first but still shows other bins with a warning when nothing better is free. You decide where the goods go.

The zone has Picking allowed switched off. Its stock refills pick bins but is never reserved for a pick list. It is still sold. Switch it on if pickers should take from it.

Switching off Picking allowed or blocking a bin does not stop sales: that stock is still sold. Open the item under Warehouse > Stock and use Block stock on the location: the units move to quarantine, where they are not sold or picked.

Bins still use it. Give them another zone first, then archive it.

Every number of your GS1 prefix was given. Set a new prefix from GS1 in the SSCC card under Settings > Warehouse > Stock.

"This container only holds a negative balance, so there is nothing to move. Correct it with a stock adjustment first." means the lines on the container add up to less than zero, so a move has nothing to carry. Adjust the stock of those items first (Warehouse > Stock, Adjust stock, or Quick change), then move the container.

Contact QrX support when pickers are sent in a strange order after you set zone pick orders, or when an SSCC that is printed correctly is refused. Include the warehouse, the zone or container code and a screenshot.