Inventory

Containers

Movable holders — totes, cases, pallets: creating them, nesting, moving them whole, and reading their history.

What a container models

A container is a movable holder — a tote, tray, case, or pallet — that carries stock and travels as a unit. Unlike a location, a container has no fixed place: it sits at a location (or inside another container) and its contents move with it. Use containers for kit boxes, job crates, shipment pallets, and anything that leaves the shelf as one thing.

The list shows each container's contents at a glance, and a fill indicator compares what's inside against the container's capacity — a full tote and an empty one are distinguishable without opening either. A container can also carry a minimum level: when its contents drop below it, the container fill low alert tells whoever refills it before the bin runs dry.

Create a container

New container asks for a type (tote, tray, case, pallet…), an optional name, and a code — Itemra suggests the next free code for the type, and the code is what ends up on the label. Where the container starts out is picked from dropdowns: choose a location, or a parent container to nest it inside.

Contents, nesting, and moving

The container page lists the stock inside, supports nesting (a tote inside a case inside a pallet), and shows the full History of where the container has been. Move container relocates the container and everything in it in one recorded operation — one scan at the destination instead of one move per item.

Receiving can put stock straight into a container, picking can pick into one, and a stock row inside a container shows the container's code wherever that stock appears.

Practical rules

• Label every container; the code is its identity across its whole life.
• Empty containers are reusable immediately — history stays attached to the container record.
• An orphaned container (left behind with contents nobody touches) is worth an alert rule so it gets found.