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Location types and behaviour

Every location has a type and two behaviour flags that decide how stock flows through it. See How Yessort models your warehouse for the basics on sites and locations before reading on.

The seven types​

  • Standard — normal pickable stock, the everyday default.
  • Quarantine — held pending inspection before it's released for sale.
  • Damaged — not sellable; stock only arrives here via an adjustment.
  • Receiving — staging for inbound goods before putaway.
  • Dispatch — staging for outbound stock before it leaves the site.
  • In transit — the site's stock-on-the-van position. Picked transfer stock sits here, still on the sending site's books, until the destination receives it. Never pickable — see how transfers work.
  • Virtual — a non-physical holder.

Pickable and receivable​

Alongside its type, every location has two independent flags:

  • Is pickable — the location can be a pick source for sales orders.
  • Is receivable — the location accepts inbound stock.

These flags aren't fixed by type — they're set per location — but they typically follow the location's purpose. A receiving bay is usually receivable but not pickable: stock lands there before putaway, not before it's picked. A damaged-stock location is usually neither: it's a dead end that stock only reaches through an adjustment, not a location you'd pick from or receive into directly.

Default locations​

Two locations at a site can carry a special role, and neither is set by the type:

  • Site default — where stock with no more specific location lands. Set when the site is created.
  • Returns location — where returned goods land when a return is restocked. See the returns location.

Neither can currently be set in Yessort. A site default is established at site creation; a returns location shows as a badge on the location's detail where one exists, but there is no field for setting one.

Locations Yessort creates for you​

Some locations appear without anyone adding them:

  • MAIN — seeded on every new warehouse and shop, so a site always has somewhere to put stock.
  • The dispatch staging location, for stock picked and waiting to leave.
  • The in-transit location, for stock on the van between sites.
  • NO-RESTOCK — created the first time a sales channel tells Yessort not to restock something. See held-back stock.

Pick-walk order​

Each location has a sequence value that sets its position on the pick walk within its site — lower numbers come first.

This page covers only where sequence lives on the location — see how picking works for how the pick walk is actually used.