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Produce a stock order
Last updated August 20, 2026
Stock types: Pre-printed retail (owner House) and seller pre-printed (owner a seller). A stock order is a production job that lands on a shelf. It is not a customer order. There is no shipping label at the end.
How to place it: house or for a seller. This article is the floor after Place stock order.
A customer order that mixes a print line with something already on the shelf is a different job — Produce an order with print and stocked items.
What you just created
After Place stock order you land on the manufacturing order (or Manufacturing → Items). There is no customer and no ship-to. Owner was chosen on the order — House or a seller — and is never inferred later.
The units still have to be printed. Your blanks come off a house slot when the batch runs.
Batch it like any print job
- Open Manufacturing → Items.
- Batch the stock-order lines the way you batch any print work.
- Open Manufacturing → Batches and run the batch.
The press consumes house blanks only. Seller stock and house retail are never pulled as raw material.
Print and QC
Work the batch through print and QC as usual. Failed QC stays on Manufacturing → QC Failed Items — those units do not go to the shelf.
Place in warehouse — not Ship Now
When the run is ready, the action is Place in warehouse. You will also see it as PLACE IN WAREHOUSE on the bin dialog (Place in warehouse + Bin …).
Do not look for Ship Now on this job. Nothing leaves the building.
That click opens a Putaway task and sends you to Inventory → Tasks.
Put away
Complete the putaway into the right owner’s slot:
| Stock order owner | Slot |
|---|---|
| House | House slot → Inventory → Stock → House retail |
| A seller | That seller’s slot → 3PL → Retail stock |
Mixed owners on one slot are refused.
From this moment the units are finished goods. They leave later on a pick for a real customer order — they never go back into a batch as blanks.
If putaway will not open
- No slots set up: Settings → Inventory → Slots & zones
- Seller owner but the product is not enrolled: enroll first, then you can place the stock order
- Looking for Hold as stock on the batch menu: that path is gone. This Place in warehouse step is the one