Start the receipt
Name it (a PO number works) and pick the client and warehouse. On a phone, your first scan creates it.
Inbound and receiving
Scan it in. Photograph the damage. Confirm.
Receive on a phone or at a desk. The first scan starts the receipt, CanShip selects the bin where the product already lives, and stock lands the moment you confirm.
The workflow
Six steps on the dock.
Receiving is where stock counts go wrong first. CanShip keeps it to scan, check and confirm, on the same phone screen from the first carton to the last.
Scan each product
Scan the barcode or type the SKU, then enter the quantity. An exact barcode or SKU match wins over a partial one.
Record lot and expiry
For lot-tracked products, enter the lot number and expiry date at the dock. They follow the stock to allocation, picking and packing.
Choose the bin
CanShip selects the bin where the product already has stock and tells you so ("Put it in A12, selected below"). Scan a different bin to change it; an exact label match beats a partial one.
Photos and holds
Take a photo on any line with the phone's camera. Put part of a line on hold with a reason as you confirm; held units are counted but can't be sold.
Confirm
Stock lands in the bin when you confirm, ready to allocate, and the receipt becomes read-only. Every line is written to the audit trail against that receipt.
When things go wrong
Receiving exceptions, handled in the same workflow.
Void a receipt entered in error
Voiding takes the full quantity back out. If some of that stock has already shipped, CanShip refuses and names the SKU, the bin and the units.
A photo on the line
Photograph damage from the phone and it attaches to that receipt line, ready when you raise a claim with the supplier.
Find any receipt
Search receipts by name or by client, and filter by status: open, confirmed or voided.
Returns come in the same door
Scan a return against its original order, mark each unit resellable, damaged or missing, and add a reason, notes and photos. Resellable units go back to the bin you choose.
See order fulfilment →Why it matters
Get receiving right, and the rest of the warehouse follows.
A receiving error becomes a picking error
Miss units at the dock and every pick after it draws against a count that isn't real. Catch it at the receipt, where it's cheap to fix.
Every receipt on the record
A confirmed receipt writes an audit row for every line, sourced to that receipt, with who confirmed it and when.
See it live
See receiving on a phone.
A live walkthrough in a working CanShip account: scan a product in, record a lot, photograph a damaged unit, put it on hold and confirm. Every plan starts with a 14-day trial.