Packout settings
Each user sets their own packout preferences in Settings, Packout & printing. Turn on auto-ship, skip completed orders, auto-validate addresses, require scan verify, show order notes and play a sound on scan. The same page sets your label printer, packing slip printer, label format and scale.
How it works
Open Settings, Packout & printing, or select Packout settings from the menu in packout. The page has two parts.
Packout behavior
These switches are saved to your user, so they follow you to any device.
- Auto-ship when all items packed: ship as soon as every item is in a carton.
- Skip completed orders: hide shipped, canceled and held orders from batch lists.
- Auto-validate addresses: validate shipping addresses before labels are created.
- Require scan verify: items go into cartons by scan only.
- Show order notes: show customer notes and special instructions.
- Play sound on scan: play a warning sound when a scan is turned away.
Device settings
Printer and scale settings are saved on the device you set them on.
- Label Printer: the printer for shipping labels, and its format, PDF, PNG or ZPL.
- Packing Slip Printer: packing slips always print as PDF.
- Default Label Format: used when a printer has no format of its own.
- Scale: a USB scale and the weight unit it reads in.
In a web browser, these need the ShipGenius Device Server app running, and the page links to downloads for macOS, Windows and Linux. In the phone app, this section sets up a Bluetooth printer.
See The Packout Flow in the knowledge base for a full walkthrough.