How to configure your boxing screen | ParagonERP

Configuring your boxing screen

Introduction

Shipping goods to your clients is likely the central function of your business. Once ordered goods are ready for shipping, one possible warehouse workflow would be to pick and then pack those goods to prepare them for transport. This article is going to explain how to configure box attributes to be used through the boxing process.

Access boxing setup

From Paragon's home screen, click the settings button.


Under the system card, select screen setup.



Once in screen setup, you can enable boxing in the following modules: invoice, order, pick, pack and shipment
To do that, go to the appropriate module, click on edit and click on the advanced settings button:



A modal will be displayed, check the option enable boxing and click on the accept button. 



By default, boxing is already enabled in the modules pack and shipment.
 
Then click on edit box attributes and a new screen will appear.


Adding attributes

You will notice that a few standard attributes are already added by default. 



To add more fields, click the add new attribute button.

A new line will appear at the top of the screen. If you click into that field, a list of all available attributes you have set up will display in a list for you to choose from.


You can also apply a few conditions to the attributes you have set up in the boxing:

  1. Ordinal: Sequences the list of attributes you add
  2. Mandatory: You will not be able to save a box configuration without filling out this attribute
  3. Disallow multiple: You cannot fill in the attribute more than once for the same box
  4. Always show: Whenever you are creating a new box, this attribute will appear by default.

Once you have added all the attributes you want to appear on your boxes, click the accept button.


You can also cancel at any time by clicking the cancel button.

Save and logout

Once you are done , click the save button at the bottom left of your screen. You will be asked to log out and log back into Paragon to apply the changes. 




What's next?

Now that you know how to customize your boxes ready for packing, why not check out some of our other articles on packing and shipping.





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