When your warehouse receives products in bulk Cartons (e.g. a sealed box of 24 bottles of hand sanitiser), you can now set the Carton to be scanned as a Shipping Box. Then when you scan a Carton Barcode the system can treat the entire Carton as its own Shipping Box automatically.
Prerequisites
To use this feature you need the below enabled:
The 'Use New Box Packing Screen' toggle within the Customer Account Settings.
You will also need Product Cartons, with the Use Carton As Box On New Box Packing Screen toggle enabled.
Product Cartons
To setup product cartons so they can be used as Shipping boxes, please do the following:
Go to Products Overview.
Click Actions, Edit product.
Navigate to the Cartons tab.
You can then Add Cartons.
You will need to populate the below:
Barcode.
Quantity.
Height.
Width.
Depth.
Use Carton As Box On New Box Packing Screen: This has to be enabled to use this feature.
Click Add.
You can also upload this in bulk using the Upload Additional Info option, then select the Carton template and add TRUE into the UseCartonAsBox field.
Using Carton Barcode Scanning as Shipping Box
With the New Box Packing Screen enabled, when processing an order it will take you to this screen:
You can now scan the Carton Barcode into the Product or Rework Box Barcode field, and it will finalise this order.
Scenarios
Scenario 1- Shipping a Full Carton As-Is
A customer orders 12 × Protein Bars, and your warehouse stores them in sealed cartons of 12.
The picker scans the Carton Barcode on the shelf. The system instantly creates a Shipping Box with all 12 bars already assigned, locks the box so nothing else gets added by mistake, and saves the carton's dimensions (e.g. 30cm × 20cm × 15cm) for the shipping label.
Scenario 2- Mixed Order, Carton Plus Loose Items
A customer orders 6 × Shampoo Bottles (a full carton) and 2 × Conditioner Bottles (loose items).
The picker is currently scanning loose conditioner bottles into Box 1. They then scan the shampoo Carton Barcode. As Box 1 already has items in it, the system automatically adds a second Shipping Box for the shampoo Carton, keeping the Carton sealed and separate and setting the dimensions and size.
Scenario 3- Mixed Order, Carton Plus More Items Still to Pick
A customer orders 10 × USB Cables (one carton of 10) and 3 × Phone Cases.
The picker scans the USB cable Carton Barcode. The system creates a locked Carton Box for the cables, and because there are still phone cases to pick, it automatically adds a second Shipping Box and selects it — so the picker can immediately start scanning the phone cases without any extra clicks.