Create the bins, racks, and rooms your stock lives in — each with a storage type and a weight capacity — so every lot has a home you can find.
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A walk-in freezer goes in over the weekend, or a pallet of rice lands in a corner nobody has a name for — and by Tuesday the floor is guessing where things sit. Before a lot can have a home in Bettr, the spot has to exist first: every bin, rack, and cold room your stock lives in is a location you set up once. After that, a batch you receive or produce lands somewhere real, and it turns up when you go looking. That list is Stock locations, under Inventory.
Open Inventory → Stock locations
In the top navigation, open Inventory and select Stock locations, then select New.
Build the location code
Give the spot a . Pick a Quick template to start from a common shape, or type each segment yourself. A code runs 2 to 5 segments, each exactly 3 characters (letters and numbers). As you go, a badge reads Available or Already exists, so you never reuse a code.
Set its storage type and capacity
Choose one or more — Dry (ambient), Refrigerated, or Frozen — and enter a Max weight capacity with its unit.
Map it to Odoo, when you're connected
When your organization is connected to Odoo, pick the Odoo location this spot maps to — every stock location then points at one Odoo internal location, so Bettr and your accounting system count the same stock. Without a connection, there is no mapping to make and the section doesn't appear.
Create the location
Select Create. The new spot appears on the Stock locations list, ready to hold stock.
Connected to Odoo but unreachable
With Odoo connected, a stock location can't be saved without an Odoo internal location to map it to — and if Bettr can't reach your Odoo account, the form is replaced by a notice until the connection is fixed in Connect Odoo. Without an Odoo connection at all, locations are simply created without a mapping and don't sync anywhere.
The reason the code is built from fixed-length segments is that consistent names
still sort and filter cleanly a year from now, when one aisle has become twenty.
Keep each level the same width — a three-character warehouse, aisle, and bin — and
RAC_A01_S01 reads the same way as RAC_A12_S04. The Quick templates seed the
shapes most plants use:
When you're adding a run of bins that only differ by a number, don't start each one cold. Copy last reuses the code and settings of the location you just made, and Browse locations copies an existing one's whole configuration as a starting point — so a whole aisle ends up consistent. Use Add segment and Remove last to change how many levels a code carries, within the 2-to-5 range.
Storage type is how Bettr knows a spot's temperature class, and a location can carry more than one — a cooler that also keeps dry goods is both Refrigerated and Dry. Each type shows as a badge on the Stock locations list, and the All storage types filter narrows the list to just your freezers or just your dry racking when you're deciding where a delivery goes.
Search by code
The list also has a Search by code box. Because your codes share a prefix per
area, typing FRZ or RAC pulls up every bin in that zone at once.
Select any location to open its detail — its storage types, weight capacity, the Odoo location it maps to, and everything stored inside right now.
Under Contents, Bettr shows how full the spot is — Total, Occupied, and Available cases. It can only total them when a single product sits there; a location shared across products reads as untracked instead. Below that sits every lot in the spot, each with its product, lot number, and quantity. Move beside a lot relocates it to another location without losing its history — the move is recorded, not typed over.