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# Locations

Set up the areas and bins inside a warehouse, choose what each one can be used for, and print location labels.

A picker can only find 12 units of CHAIR-01 quickly if OrderEazi knows which shelf they're on. **Locations** are the areas and bins inside a warehouse where stock is kept. Each stock level (the quantity of one product in one location) belongs to a location. Each location's settings decide whether stock can be picked from it, put away (moved from receiving onto a shelf) into it, and counted.

### Before you start

* **Permissions:** You need **View and Use as Administrator** or **View and Use as Manager**, in the **Warehousing** permission group.
* **Warehouse:** The warehouse must be set up and active. See [Warehouses](/central/warehouse-management/management/warehouses.md).
* **Printer:** To print location labels, choose a **Box Label Printer** for your computer under **Printer Setup**. See [Printers](/central/warehouse-management/management/printers.md).

### How locations are organised

Locations have two levels, areas and bins.

**Areas:** An area is a part of the warehouse, such as the pick face (the shelves pickers pick from) or bulk storage. Each area has a type, which decides how warehouse processes use it.

**Bins:** A bin is a single place in an area, such as a shelf or pallet position. Stock is kept in bins.

These are the area types:

* **PickFaceArea:** This is where stock is picked from for orders. Its bins are suggested when stock is put away.
* **BulkArea:** This is bulk storage. Its bins can hold more than one product, and they top up the pick face when **Can Replenish From Bulk** is on in [Warehouse settings](/central/warehouse-management/warehouse-settings.md).
* **BufferArea:** This is overflow storage, also used to top up the pick face.
* **ReceivingArea:** This is where stock waits after it's received. Receiving uses the first receiving area in the warehouse.
* **ReturnsArea:** This is where client returns wait to be processed.
* **QuarantineArea:** This is where stock is held apart, such as stock waiting for inspection.
* **AssemblyArea** and **DisassemblyArea:** These are for stock being put together or taken apart. They don't have any special behaviour.

A new warehouse already has a **Pick-Face**, **Bulk**, **Returns**, and **Receiving** area, with standard bins under **Receiving** and **Returns**.

### How to open Locations

In the warehouse menu, select **Management** > **Locations**. The **Locations List** tab shows each location's **Name**, **Type**, **Area**, **Warehouse**, and whether it's **Enabled** or **Hidden**.

To see the warehouse as a tree of areas and bins, select **Locations Tree View**. To find a location, choose its **Warehouse** or type its name under **Location**, then select **Filter**. To download the list as a spreadsheet, select **Export**.

### How to add bins

Adding bins takes two screens, and all the bins you add at once get the same settings.

> **Tip:** To make a new area while adding bins, select **+** next to **Parent Location**, enter its **Location Name**, choose its **Location Type**, and select **Add**.

1. Select **Add Location**.
2. On **Step 1: Location Details**, choose the **Warehouse**.
3. Under **Parent Location**, start typing an area's name and choose it.
4. Under **Settings**, tick what these bins can be used for, including **Enabled**. Bins without **Enabled** are created switched off.
5. Select **Next: Add Locations**.
6. On **Step 2: Add Locations**, enter a bin's **Name**.
7. Select **Add Location**. Repeat steps 6 and 7 for each bin.
8. Select **Create**.

You'll see "Location(s) created successfully."

**Example:** You've put up a new shelving row in the pick face of the Johannesburg Warehouse. You choose the warehouse and the **Pick-Face** area, and tick **Can Pick**, **Can Put Away**, **Can Stock Take**, and **Enabled**. On **Step 2: Add Locations**, you add A-01 to A-12, one at a time, and select **Create**. All 12 bins are ready for put aways.

If a name is already used in that warehouse, you'll see "\[name] already exists in \[warehouse]". Choose another name. If you go back and change the **Warehouse** after adding bins, the bins you've added are cleared.

### What each setting does

* **Can Pick:** Picking slips are only allocated from locations with this ticked.
* **Can Put Away:** Stock can be put away into this location. Without it, you see "This location does not allow put away".
* **Can Stock Take:** The location can be included in cycle counts. Despite its name, this doesn't affect stocktakes.
* **Enabled:** The location is switched on. You can only print a label for an enabled location, and stock level imports don't accept a location that isn't enabled.
* **Can Insert**, **Can Remove**, **Can Transfer**, and **Hidden:** These are saved with the location, but they don't change what people can do.

### How to change a location

1. In the location's row, select the gear, then **Edit**.
2. Change its **Name**, **Parent Location**, or settings.
3. Select **Save**.

You'll see "Location \[name] has been modified."

You can't move a location to another warehouse, or change a bin into an area. You can change an area's type, but don't change the type of the warehouse's **Receiving** or **Pick-Face** area: receiving and put aways need them.

Sometimes you'll see "This location is maintained automatically by a connected app or your accounting system and cannot be edited here." That means the location's stock comes from a connected system, so change it there.

### How to delete a location

1. In the location's row, select the gear, then **Delete**.
2. Select **Delete** to confirm.

You can only delete a location that has never held stock and has no bins under it. Otherwise you see one of these:

* **"There are stock levels linked to this Location and it may not be deleted":** The location has, or once had, a stock level, even with 0 quantity. Leave it in place, and clear **Enabled** if you no longer use it.
* **"This Location is still referenced by other records and may not be deleted.":** The location has bins under it, or other records use it.

### How to print a location label

1. In the location's row, select the gear, then **Print Label**.
2. Enter the **Number of labels to print**.
3. Select **Print**.

The label prints on your computer's **Box Label Printer**, with the location's name as a barcode and its area's name. You'll see "The location barcode was successfully sent to the printer".

If you see "No printer found", choose a **Box Label Printer** under **Printer Setup**. The label's layout is the **Location Label** in [Warehouse settings](/central/warehouse-management/warehouse-settings.md).

### Related pages

* [Warehouses](/central/warehouse-management/management/warehouses.md): the standard locations each warehouse comes with
* [Printers](/central/warehouse-management/management/printers.md): set up label printing
* [Stock Levels](/central/warehouse-management/stock/stock-levels.md): the stock in each location