Add and manage warehouses

A warehouse is a physical location where inventory is stored and shipped from. Warehouses are the key to orchestrating inventory and order fulfillment. You can create and manage all of the warehouses in your fulfillment network through Nautical.

Adding warehouses is the essential first step for inventory and shipping management. For more information on how warehouses, inventory, and shipping work, see the setup overview topic.

Warehouses can be owned and managed by the marketplace operator or sellers.

• If your sellers have their own warehouses and shipping, you can give them permission to create and manage warehouses and shipping zones. Sellers can assign inventory to either their warehouses or the warehouses owned by a marketplace operator.

• If the marketplace handles all inventory and warehouse management, you can restrict permissions to only the marketplace operator.

Permission Requirements

You must have the Manage shipping permission granted through your permission group to create and manage warehouses.

View warehouses

You can view the list of available warehouses in the dashboard by navigating to Settings -> Warehouses.

Add a warehouse

1. In the dashboard, navigate to Settings -> Warehouses.
2. Select Create warehouse.
3. Input the warehouse's name and assign a seller to own it.

Assigning Owners

The Owner field only appears to users with the Manage marketplace permission (marketplace staff members). Otherwise, it defaults to the seller associated with the current user.

4. Input the warehouse's address information.
5. Assign one or more shipping zones this warehouse will fulfill products to.
6. Select Create.

Assign inventory to a warehouse

For instructions on how to assign product inventory, see Assign product inventory.