Truck shipments require pallets. Goflow streamlines this process by enabling you to easily create and manage pallets, generate pallet labels, and relay pallet information to the channel.
Pallets are currently supported for Amazon Vendor and Walmart Vendor orders only.
You can create and modify pallets while packing products into shipment boxes. This feature is particularly useful if you have multiple pallets per shipment and need to adjust their configurations as you pack. It allows you to dynamically manage pallet contents and easily move boxes between pallets, ensuring a flexible and efficient packing process.
To enable interactive pallet management, follow these steps:
When you close the first box, a new open pallet is automatically created. As you continue to close more boxes, they are added to the open pallet. Once the pallet is full, close it by clicking on Close Pallet.
In the Close Pallet modal, you can update the weight and dimensions of the pallet. Goflow automatically calculates the weight of the pallet by summing up the weight of the shipment boxes and adding an additional 40 pounds for the weight of the skid itself. The weight and dimensions of the pallets will prepopulate when requesting shipment routing. If you later add or remove boxes from this pallet, the weight will automatically recalculate.
You can manually update the weight of a pallet. If you do so, the weight will no longer automatically recalculate if you add or remove boxes from the pallet later. To revert to automatic recalculation, click on Calculate from Boxes.
After closing the first pallet, a second open pallet is automatically created as you continue to close more boxes. When the order is fully packed, closing the last box will automatically close the last pallet as well.
To view the boxes on a pallet, select the pallet and click View Boxes. The Pallet Boxes modal displays a list of shipment boxes within that pallet. You can expand a shipment box to see its product contents, or click the plus sign at the top to expand all boxes. If you're looking for boxes with a specific product, use the product filter at the top to easily locate them.
To move boxes to another pallet, select the boxes and click Actions. From there, choose what to do with the selected boxes. You can move them to an existing closed pallet, return them to the open pallet, or create a new pallet with only the selected boxes. The options available will depend on whether the current pallet is open or closed, and whether there is already another closed pallet.
When moving all boxes from a closed pallet, you are effectively deleting that pallet.
When boxes are removed from a pallet, its weight is automatically adjusted. You can also manually manage the weight and dimensions by clicking on the pallet, editing the numbers, and saving your changes.
To delete a closed pallet, and move all its boxes to the open pallet, follow these steps:
The deleted pallet number will be reused for the next closed pallet. For example, if you have two pallets and delete pallet 1, the next closed pallet will be labeled pallet 1. If no further pallets are closed, you may end up with pallet number in nonsequential order. For instance, if you have two pallets and move all boxes from the first pallet to the second, you will be left with pallet 2 but no pallet 1.
To delete all closed pallets and start over, click on Unpack All in the main pallet card. This action will move all boxes to the open pallet.
Whenever a pallet is deleted, the SSCC number printed on the pallet label becomes invalid. After destroying a pallet, the printed pallet labels must be discarded.
When closing a pallet, you can choose to automatically print pallet labels. Adjust the number of copies printed by following these steps:
To disable automatic printing of pallet labels, set the number of copies to 0.
Inside a packed order, under the Shipping section, you can see the number of boxes and pallets the order contains. For orders that don't yet have pallets, click on the blue button Upload Pallets. To edit existing pallets, and for understanding file headers on the upload, refer to managing pallets in bulk.
When receiving routing instructions and the store instructs to ship with a small parcel carrier, the pallets will automatically be deleted.
Similarly, if you manually change the carrier type of a packed order to a small parcel carrier, any existing pallets will be destroyed.
To print pallet labels for a packed order, click on the Documents icon in the upper left-hand corner inside the order page.
To download pallet labels for multiple orders in bulk, follow these steps:
Use a CSV file to import pallet information for packed orders. This upload allows you to import pallets for one or multiple orders simultaneously. You can create new pallets for orders that do not yet have any, as well as modify existing pallets for orders that already do.
To import pallets in bulk, follow these steps:
During the file upload process, you can choose how to handle orders with existing pallets:
The Columns tab provides a brief explanation of the required and optional headers. This section offers an expanded discussion:
Order Identifiers - Identify the orders to update by entering either the order ID or the order number. If there are multiple splits with the same order number, use the order ID to correctly identify the specific order split to update.
Order identifiers are only used in the bulk upload. When importing pallets for a single packed order, the identifiers are ignored.
Pallet - Enter the pallet number (e.g., 1 or 2). Simply enter the number without the word "pallet". Enter only one row per pallet.
Boxes - List all the box numbers that go into that pallet. Simply enter the number without the word "box".
It's important to specify the exact box numbers placed on each pallet, rather than just the quantity of boxes. This allows the store to accurately track which boxes are on each pallet. For example, if you have two pallets with 50 boxes each, enter box numbers "1-50" for the first pallet and "51-100" for the second pallet. Simply entering "50" for each pallet is not good enough.
When using Excel to enter a box range, format the box column as text to prevent Excel from interpreting "1-50" as a date. This ensures that your data remains intact and valid.
Weight and Dimensions - These fields are optional. Enter the weight and dimensions for the pallets in pounds and inches.
When pounds is left empty, Goflow will calculate the pallet weight from the pallet boxes, and add an additional 40 pounds for the skit itself. When dimensions are left empty, the pallet will not have dimensions.
Order ID | Order Number | Store | Pallet | Boxes | Pounds | Ounces | Length | Width | Height |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1GJTL3JH | Amazon Vendor | 1 | 1-50 | ||||||
1234 | 2 | 51-100 | |||||||
1234 | 3 | 101,102,103-110 | 2000 | 1 | 48 | 40 | 72 |