Locations and bins
Track where every item physically lives in PalmFlow — zones, shelves, and bins — so you can find anything fast when it sells.
A location in PalmFlow is a place an item physically sits — a warehouse, a room, a shelf, a bin. Locations nest inside each other, so the moment something sells, "somewhere in the garage" is a bin you can walk straight to.
How locations work
A location is a place an item physically lives — a zone, a shelf, a tote, a bin. You can keep it as simple as a handful of bins or build out a more detailed map as your inventory grows.
- 1Create the locations that match your space in Settings or directly while editing an item.
- 2Assign each item a location when you add it (or in bulk later).
- 3When an order comes in, the item's location tells you exactly where to pick it.
Why it's worth the few seconds
- Faster picking — no rummaging when an order needs to ship today.
- Fewer "can't find it" cancellations — every item has a known home.
- Cleaner counts — you can audit a shelf against what PalmFlow says is on it.
Tips
- Label your physical bins with the same names you use in PalmFlow. A bin called A-12 in the app should read A-12 on the shelf.
- Combine locations with barcode scanning for fast put-away: scan the item, set the bin, done.
- Moving an item to a new bin is recorded on its timeline, so you always have the history of where it's been.