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Quick start

Let’s get started with Scan to Ship by fulfilling a single order using barcode scanning. The steps are:

  1. Create or choose a test order
  2. Assign barcodes (if necessary)
  3. Fulfill your first order

Create or choose a test order

After installing Scan to Ship, find an order that you’d like to fulfill. Navigate to that order in your Shopify admin area.

Assigning barcodes

Before you can use the barcode scanning features in Scan to Ship, you’ll need to ensure that the products have barcodes assigned.

If you haven’t yet set barcodes for your products, do so now for the products in your test order.

Open the order in Scan to Ship

From the Shopify order page, find and select the “Fulfill with Scan to Ship” menu item.

You will be taken to Scan to Ship’s order page. This page is where you will scan items with a barcode scanner (or camera) to fulfill the order.

When you first visit an order in Scan to Ship, you will see a “Start Shipping” button. Click this button to start fulfilling the order.

“Starting” an order in Scan to Ship is an important concept that allows multiple staff to work on orders at the same time. When an order is started, it will not be made available for processing to other team members unless first “unstarted”. You can read more about this in the order queue documentation.

Fulfill your first order

After clicking the “Start Shipping” button, the page will switch to an order scanning mode. In this mode you can start to scan items with a barcode scanner (or camera) to pack and fulfill the order.

If you have a USB or Bluetooth barcode scanner attached to your device, you should be able to use it to scan product barcodes at this point. If you don’t have a physical barcode scanner, you can use the camera on your device to scan barcodes.

To open the camera scanner, click the “Camera” button at the top of the page. If you are using a mobile devise, choose This will open a camera scanner window. You can use this window to scan barcodes using your device’s camera.

To scan a product barcode using the camera scanner, simply point your device’s camera at the barcode and wait for the scanner to detect the barcode. When the barcode is detected, the quanity for that product will be incremented by one. Repeat the process for each item in the order.

When you have scanned all items in the order, click the “Create Fulfillment” button to complete the fulfillment.