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 vendors.

• If your vendors have their own warehouses and shipping, you can give them permission to create and manage warehouses and shipping zones. Vendors can assign inventory to their warehouses or those owned by the 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

To view the list of available warehouses from the Dashboard, go to go to Settings -> Warehouses.

Add a warehouse

1. From the Dashboard, go to Settings -> Warehouses.
2. Select Create warehouse.
3. Enter a Name for the warehouse.
4. In the Owner field, select the seller who owns the warehouse.
   The Owner field only appears to marketplace operators. For sellers, the system automatically assigns ownership to the seller associated with the current user.
5. Under Location, enter the warehouse address information.
6. In the Shipping zones field, select which shipping zones apply to this warehouse.
7. Select Save.

Attach shipping zones to a warehouse

1. From the Dashboard, go to Settings -> Warehouses.
2. Open a warehouse.
3. Use the Shipping zones field to select which shipping zones apply to this warehouse.
4. Select Save.

Assign inventory to a warehouse

Inventory is managed on product variants. For instructions on how to assign inventory, see Assign Inventory