Label batch sources

A batch records what prompted it. In a list of batches, the source is how you tell them apart.

Source	What prompted it	What is in it
Manual	You built it	Whatever you chose
Purchase order	An order placed with a supplier	Labels for what you ordered
Goods receipt	A delivery received	Labels for what actually arrived
Transfer	Stock arriving from another of your sites	Labels for what was sent
Label batch	An existing batch	The same again, or a variation

Goods receipt is usually the one you want

For labelling incoming stock, a batch from the goods receipt beats one from the purchase order.

The receipt records what turned up. The order records what you asked for. Deliveries are short, substituted and over-supplied often enough that labelling from the order means labels for stock you do not have, and none for stock you do.

See receive a delivery.

From another batch

Building from an existing batch saves reassembling the same list — a second run of shelf labels, or replacing a set that got damp.

The new batch is its own draft. Printing it does not affect the original.

Manual

For anything not prompted by stock movement: relabelling a shelf, replacing a damaged label, or a one-off set.

Status

Draft while you build it, printed once produced. See label batches.

What the labels look like

The template for that subject decides, and data is filled in when the batch prints — so a batch built yesterday and printed today shows today's data.