Lodsted
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Lodsted is warehouse management built into Shopify. It turns the orders in your store into pick lists, packing slips and shipping labels, keeps inventory by location, and tells Shopify when each order ships. This guide covers every screen and every setting.
In your Shopify admin go to Apps › Lodsted. There is no separate password; your Shopify staff login is your Lodsted login. Each Lodsted screen appears in Shopify's left-hand app menu, and the title bar above every page holds Sync, the theme switch and the Pack station button, which opens the pack station in its own browser tab because the USB scale and label printer cannot be reached from inside the Shopify frame.
Start here
Install Lodsted
From the Shopify App Store to the first shipped order, one step at a time.
How an order flows
One page that follows an order from Shopify to the truck. Read this first.
First-time setup
Locations, products, wave definitions, team, printers. The order to do things in.
Importing locations and stock
The two spreadsheet files that bring an existing warehouse in, column by column.
FAQ
Short answers to the questions people ask in the first week.
Glossary
Wave, bin, primary location, allocation, FIFO layer and the rest, defined.
Screens
Each page below documents one entry in the app menu, in the order the menu lists them.
| Menu entry | What it is for | Who sees it |
|---|---|---|
| Dashboard | Today's numbers: orders, waves, shipped, printed, holds, backorders. | Everyone |
| Orders | Every order Lodsted has pulled from your store, its status, wave and bin, shipments and history. | Everyone |
| Waves | Batch orders for picking, print pick lists and packing slips, manage wave definitions. | Everyone (definitions: Admin) |
| Inventory | Stock by SKU and location, moves, adjustments, product settings, the push to Shopify. | Everyone (adjust: Admin) |
| Kits | Define bundle SKUs whose components are picked and shipped together. | Admin |
| Replenishment | The report of pick locations running low, and the moves that refill them from bulk. | Everyone |
| Locations | Your bins: zones, primary pick locations, active or inactive, min and max. | Everyone |
| Transactions | The audit trail of every stock change: receipts, moves, adjustments, sales. | Everyone |
| Shipments | Packages that left the building, their processing status and the push to the store. | Everyone |
| Pack station | Scan, weigh, buy a label, print it. End-of-day USPS SCAN forms. | Everyone (when enabled) |
| Purchase Orders | Vendors, POs, receiving stock into locations at cost. | Everyone (delete: Admin) |
| Team | Who can use Lodsted and at what level. | Admin |
| Settings | Company profile, alert emails, shipping method mappings, carrier accounts, holidays, features, billing, data access and backups, your data when you uninstall. | Admin |
| Setup | The first-run checklist. Comes back any time to show what is still open. | Everyone |
By role
Customer service
Find an order, read its status, see tracking, put it on hold, explain a backorder.
Pickers
Read a pick list, fill the cart, handle a short bin.
Packers and shippers
Packing slips, the pack station, labels, manifests, and what to do when a label is wrong.
Receiving and purchasing
Vendors, purchase orders, receiving, put-away and keeping pick bins full.
Managers and admins
Setup, team, wave definitions, the daily checks and the alerts that need a person.
Five ideas that explain most of Lodsted
- Orders come from Shopify; shipments go back. Lodsted pulls new orders automatically. When a package leaves, Lodsted marks the order fulfilled in Shopify with its tracking number. You never fulfill by hand in Shopify.
- A wave is a batch of orders picked in one walk. Each order gets a numbered bin on the cart. The pick list is sorted by location; the packing slips are sorted by bin.
- Stock lives in locations. Zone 01 locations are where pickers pick; every other location is storage. Every SKU should have one primary pick location. An inactive location holds stock that is not usable yet.
- Available = on hand minus allocated. Creating a wave allocates stock; shipping deducts it. Shopify is shown the available count, less any open demand.
- Everything is logged. Every stock change writes a transaction with who, when and why. Every order change writes an activity line.