Batch Picking

Batch Picking is the workflow where one picker walks the warehouse once for a whole wave of orders. The modal collapses every line item across all selected orders into a single deduplicated list grouped by product, with the total quantity to fetch.

When to use it

• You receive batches of similar orders (e.g. dropshipping, kit fulfillment, school supplies).
• You ship from a warehouse where multi-trip picking is expensive.
• Pickers and packers are separate roles: the picker fetches by SKU, the packer assigns to orders at the bench.

Layout

Compared to Order Picking, the Batch view is order-blind:

• No per-order header.
• One row per product (or per product number — see Group by), summing quantity across orders.
• Same optional columns: photo, product number, manufacturer number, EAN, stock, available stock, custom field.

The Items list type filter, sort, highlight, sticky-header and digital-item switches are independent from Order Picking, so you can configure the two views very differently. They live in the Modal window | Batch Picking card in plugin settings.

Group by

Set in Group by in the Batch Picking card:

• Name (default) — items with the same product name are merged. Best when your variants share a name (e.g. T-shirt L red and T-shirt L blue both group as “T-shirt L”).
• Product number — strict SKU grouping. Each variant gets its own row.

Sorting

Independent from group key:

• Sort by: Name or Product number.
• Sort direction: Ascending / Descending.

Pickers usually want product number ascending if SKUs are mapped to shelf positions.

Picking interactions

• Click row — marks the whole grouped row as picked (regardless of how many orders contributed lines to it).
• Scan EAN / manufacturer number — matches against the grouped product (not against any specific order line). The grouped row marks complete on the first hit, or increments a counter in quantity mode.

Internally, marking a grouped row complete marks every contributing line in every order as picked. State transitions on the Next button then apply across all selected orders.

Print: Items List

Use the Print → Items List toolbar action to download the pick list as a PDF. The PDF reflects the same grouping, sort and column choices as the modal (configured separately in the Print | Items list card so the printable doc can be denser than the on-screen view).

Optionally, the Order state on Pick List print setting moves every selected order to a custom state when the list is printed. See Order state transitions.

Switching to Order Picking mid-wave

If you start in Batch view but need to confirm a specific order’s contents, switch via the View toggle in the toolbar — Order Picking shows the same selection with each order separately. Picked items remain picked across the switch.