Print a pick list

Learn how to print a pick list so one pass through the warehouse pulls the items for every order you are about to ship.

What is on a pick list

A pick list consolidates a set of orders into one line per SKU, sorted by shelf location. Instead of a sheet per order, the picker carries a single sheet that says where to go, how many units to take, and how many orders those units cover.

• Location – the shelf location saved for that SKU in the warehouse the orders pull from. A SKU stocked in two places prints a line for each, because two locations are two walks.
• Qty – the total units to pick across every order on the list.
• SKU and Item – the product, with its barcode printed after the title when one is saved.
• Orders – how many of the orders on the list want that SKU.

Every row has a checkbox to tick off at the shelf, and the last line totals the SKUs and units on the sheet. The heading carries your business name, what the list was made from, and the time it was generated in your own timezone.

Print a pick list for selected orders

This is the quickest route, and it works on any selection of orders. It needs no shipping batch and no label integration.

1. Go to Orders > All orders > the Awaiting Shipments tab.
2. Filter or search for the orders you are about to ship, then tick them in the grid.
3. Click the ... (More Actions) button above the grid, then click Print Pick List.
4. The PDF opens in a new tab. Print it and hand it to the warehouse.

Print a pick list for a shipping batch

If you buy labels through Ship Selected, the same list is available at every stage of a batch, and it always reflects what is still left to pick.

1. While you are building the batch: on the Review & process step, click Pick list in the top right. The list opens on screen, and Download PDF prints it.
2. As the labels finish: click Print with pick list to open the label PDF, the packing lists and the pick list together, ready for the printer.
3. Any time afterwards: go to Orders > All orders > the Completed tab, open the batch from the Shipping batches panel (or from View all batches), and click Pick list.

A batch's pick list is readable by anyone on your account, not only the teammate who created the batch.

Save shelf locations so the list is sorted

The pick list is only as useful as the locations behind it. Locations are stored per SKU per warehouse, so the same product can sit in a different bay in each of your warehouses.

1. Go to Inventory > Stock levels.
2. Click Customize View and turn on the [Warehouse name] Location column for each warehouse you pick from.
3. Click a cell in that column and type the location – aisle, bay, shelf, bin, however your warehouse is labelled – then save.

Only warehouses you stock yourself have a location column. Amazon FBA and other outsourced fulfillment sources do not, because you never walk those shelves. A SKU with no location saved still prints: it shows a dash and sorts to the bottom of the sheet.

Kits on a pick list

A kit is a virtual product, so the kit itself never leaves the shelf. The kit SKU prints as the line, and its components are listed underneath it, indented, each with its own location and its own quantity – the recipe multiplied by the number of kits ordered. Three kits of a two-per-kit component is six units to pick.

The component rows carry the locations, because a kit has no shelf of its own. The unit total at the bottom of the sheet counts components rather than kits, for the same reason.

How the quantities are worked out

A pick list only ever shows what is still open, so it can be reprinted at any point without sending someone after stock that has already been picked, packed or shipped.

• Units you have already marked fulfilled drop off the list.
• Units already covered by a label you bought drop off too.
• Cancelled order items never appear.
• For a batch, orders you excluded from it and orders that failed to rate are left out, so the sheet matches what will actually ship.
• Once a batch's labels are bought, its pick list shows what those labels covered, so a reprint matches the boxes on the bench.
• If there is nothing left to pick, Listing Mirror tells you so instead of printing an empty sheet.

Troubleshooting

A line says "Not linked." The SKU on the order has no matching product in Listing Mirror, so there is no location, barcode or title to print beside it. Match the SKU to a product and the next pick list will be complete.

The Location column shows a dash. No location has been saved for that SKU in the warehouse the order pulls from. Add it in Stock levels as above.

The same SKU appears twice. That SKU is stocked in more than one location, and each location is its own trip. The two lines added together are the full quantity.

"Nothing left to pick." Everything on the selection or batch is already fulfilled, already on a label, or cancelled. There is nothing for the warehouse to do.