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How Yessort models your warehouse

Yessort splits your physical stock into two levels: the building, and the spot inside it. Understanding this split makes every other inventory concept — locations, transfers, Shopify sync — click into place.

Sites and locations​

A site is a building: a warehouse, a shop, or a virtual holder of stock. A location is an addressable spot inside a site — a bin, a shelf, a pallet space, or a slot. Every location belongs to exactly one site.

Why "location", not "bin"​

Yessort calls the spot inside a site a "location" rather than a "bin" because the real spot is often broader than a bin — a pallet space or a shelf position isn't always a bin, and "location" is the accurate noun for all of them.

Where stock is tracked​

Where stock quantities live depends on the site type:

  • Warehouse sites — stock is tracked at the location level, so you know which bin, shelf, or pallet space holds it.
  • Shop sites — stock is tracked at the location level too, but a shop is created with a single main location and normally left that way, so the breakdown is one line. Yessort doesn't offer location management on a shop site.
  • Virtual sites — the one type that holds stock at site level rather than in a location. They hold in-transit stock moving between two real sites, until it arrives at its destination.

:::tip Shopify calls it "Location" — but it means site Shopify's API calls a warehouse a "Location". That always maps to a Yessort site, never a Yessort location. When you're connecting Shopify inventory, the Shopify Location you pick corresponds to one of your Yessort sites. :::

One address, several tenants​

Multiple organisations can share the same physical building. Each organisation gets its own site record for that address, and sees only its own data — nothing is shared between them.