A pick list turns Shopify orders into one walk through the stockroom: lines in bin order, a scanner to pick, a second scan at the bench to verify, then the order is fulfilled or handed to Shopify for its label. Picking never changes your inventory - Shopify already holds the units as committed, and the fulfillment does the deduction, exactly as it would from the admin.
Picking is part of the free core alongside purchase orders and receiving.
Settings for picking
Settings > Picking holds three settings:
When an order is packed - the finish the bench pre-selects: Hand off to Shopify (mark it packed here, buy the label on the order in Shopify), Fulfill in Stockroom (type the tracking here and Stockroom creates the fulfillment) or Buy a Shopify Shipping label (Shopify sells the label and fulfills the order; print it from the bench). Pickup orders always finish with Ready for pickup. Packers can change the finish per order.
Verify each item by scan at packing - on by default. Off, packing is one tap per order.
Packages for shipping labels - saved package sizes (outside dimensions and the empty package's weight) the bench offers when it buys a label. The bench can also save one while buying.
Make a pick list
There are three doors, all leading to the same list:
In Stockroom, open Sell, choose Pick lists, then New pick list. (Pick lists lived under Inventory until September 2026.) The Open orders view beside it also has a Pick button on every order that can be picked. The dialog reads the orders waiting to be picked straight from Shopify - open, unheld, not scheduled for later - and shows each order's location, delivery method and line count. Tick what you want and choose Create.
On the Shopify Orders page, select orders and choose Pick with Stockroom from the bulk actions.
On one order in Shopify, open More actions and choose Pick this order.
Orders at different locations become separate lists, one per location. An order already on an open list is never added twice - the dialog shows which list has it.
Pick
The picking screen - lines in bin order, the scanner, tapping counts and short picks - is covered in Pick orders: bin order, scanning and short picks.
Pack and finish
Packing, the packing slip and the four ways to finish an order are covered in Pack and finish orders at the bench.
Print the pick list
Print pick list on the list makes a PDF: tick boxes, bins in walk order, and one barcode per order so the bench can scan an order open. It prints in English, with no prices and no customer details.
Shopify's own Print menu has Stockroom in it too. On an order, Print > Stockroom documents previews the packing slip or the pick list the order is on, and prints from there. On the Orders page, select orders and choose Print > Stockroom packing slips for one PDF with a slip per page (up to 50 orders at a time; orders that are not on a pick list yet are counted and left out).
Keeping in step with Shopify
Shopify stays the truth. If an order is edited, cancelled, moved to another location, put on hold, or fulfilled in the admin after the list was made, the list updates itself and shows a banner naming the order and what changed. Lines that no longer exist come off the list; nothing else is changed for you. Check for changes re-reads the orders on the spot.
Good to know
Picking never writes to inventory. The only inventory change is the fulfillment itself, which Shopify makes.
Stockroom keeps the order number and the lines. It stores no customer name or address.
A finished list is permanent. Cancelling a list writes nothing to Shopify and puts the orders back in the waiting list.
A pick list covers Shopify's merchant-managed locations. Orders routed to a fulfillment service are not picked here.
Shopify Flow: three triggers - Pick list created, Pick list picked and Order line short picked (the order, product, units missing, reason and decision) - so a workflow can tag the order, email the customer or notify the buyer when a shelf comes up short.
Shopify Shipping labels are sold and billed by Shopify at Shopify Shipping rates - Stockroom never charges for them, and cannot void one: void it from the order in Shopify. A short-picked order gets a label for what was packed; Stockroom splits those units into their own fulfillment order first, so the rest stays open.