# Waves, pick paths, packing and ship confirm

> Release orders into a wave, pick in bin order with a scanner, pack into cartons, and ship-confirm so COGS posts at scan time.

Section: Inventory · Canonical: https://intubu.intuitivecapital-dai.com/docs/warehouse-picking

Warehouse → Waves & picking, Pack & ship.

**Release.** Open sales orders with something left to ship sit in the release queue. Wave everything due by a date, or tick the ones you want. A wave is one walk: one pick per line per bin, sorted by each bin's pick sequence, then aisle and shelf. With batch picking each order gets a tote letter so several orders come back from one walk.

**Pick.** Scan the item's barcode and press Enter — the next pending pick for it confirms. A scan that does not match is refused and says what it expected. **Short** records what was actually found and why; the order will ship what was picked and the rest goes on a backorder. A **substitute** is allowed only from the item's own substitution list.

**Pack.** The pack station shows picked-not-yet-packed per line, estimates the weight from item weights, and suggests the smallest box that takes it. Close a carton with its box and weight. Then either *Buy label* — compare carrier rates and buy postage on your own EasyPost account, see [Buying shipping labels at the pack station (EasyPost)](https://intubu.intuitivecapital-dai.com/docs/shipping-labels) — or type the carrier and tracking number from the carrier's own tool. The footer of the pack screen says which of the two you are set up for.

**Ship confirm** is the moment inventory and cost of goods post — for exactly what is in the cartons, through the same fulfilment sales orders already use. The invoice follows the warehouse setting (on by default: one invoice for the shipment). Nothing waits for month-end.