A warehouse is a place where stock stops moving for a while, and the only question that matters is where exactly. Finocket answers it with bins: shelves, racks, staging areas and returns areas inside a location. Goods arrive against a purchase order, get put away into a bin, and are picked out again for a shop or an order.
Bins come first
Open Bins from Inventory and add the places stock actually sits. A code is what is painted on the shelf — A1, RACK-3 — stored upper-cased and unique within its location, so "a1" and "A1" are the same bin rather than two. Give each one a kind: a staging bin is where a delivery waits to be put away, and a returns bin is where something sent back sits until somebody decides what happens to it.
Until a location has at least one bin, nothing is queued to put away there. That is not a failure — the stock is in the location and the books know it; you simply have not said which shelf.
Putting stock away
Post a goods receipt into a location that has bins and each accepted line becomes a put-away task. Put away shows one at a time, because the person using it has a carton in the other hand: the item, how many, and which bin.
The bin Finocket suggests is a suggestion. Put the goods where they actually go — the bin you choose is what gets recorded. Leave the quantity empty to shelve the whole task, or type a smaller number and the rest stays queued, so a carton split across two shelves loses nothing.
Picking
A pick list is what to take off the shelves — to replenish a shop, or to fulfil an order. A new list holds nothing. Release is the moment it holds stock: on-hand does not change, but what is available to promise does, so the shop counter and the website cannot both sell the last one.
Picking is one line at a time — the item, the bin it should be in, confirm. If there are fewer on the shelf than the list asked for, Short records how many you found and why. That is deliberately two taps rather than one: the shop that asked for twelve needs to know eight came and what happened to the rest, and a quietly reduced number tells them nothing.
Cancelling a list releases everything it held, so the stock is available again straight away. Finishing one marks it picked and ready to hand over.
What this does not do to your stock
Nothing on these screens moves stock out of the building. A hold is a promise, not a movement — the goods are still on the shelf and still yours. The bill or the stock transfer the goods are for is what actually moves them, when they actually go. That is why a released pick list and a dispatched order show different numbers, and why they should.
Packing, dispatch and returns receiving arrive with the next release. Until then a picked list is handed over on paper and the parcel is booked from Parcels.