Point, and you are there
Scan a shelf label and that location opens with everything in it. Scan a product and you get the choice of what to do with it. No searching, no typing, no finding the right row on a small screen.
Away from the desk
Your phone is the scanner
Stock work happens in front of a shelf, not at a desk โ usually with your hands full. Pair a phone to RobCo Depot once and it becomes a scanner: point it at a label and you are already on the right screen, ready to put something away or take it out.
What a paired phone adds
Receive, pick, move, correct
The four things you actually do to stock, each one short form away from a scan. Every one writes a dated entry with a reason rather than overwriting a number, so the history survives being in a hurry.
Add what is not there yet
Scan a barcode nothing matches and the phone offers to create the product on the spot โ photograph it, keep the barcode, put it on the shelf you are standing at. No walking back to a computer.
Print the label from where you stand
Ask for a shelf or product label without leaving the aisle. It comes out on the printer at your bench, ready to collect โ see below for why it works that way round.
How it works, start to finish
Pairing is a one-off. After it, the phone is simply signed in and ready whenever you pick it up.
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Pair the phone once
On a computer where you are already signed in, ask for a pairing code and point the phone camera at the QR code it shows. The phone confirms which account it is joining before anything happens. You never type your password into the phone.
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Print labels for your shelves and products
Each label carries a QR code pointing back at that exact shelf or product, plus readable text so a person can identify it too. Stick them where they belong once and they keep working.
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Scan whatever is in front of you
The camera opens the location or the product the label names. An Android phone can tap an NFC tag instead, if you have written one. There is also a "what is this?" mode that just reads a code back to you and changes nothing, for when you want to look rather than act.
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Do the thing and move on
Receive a delivery into the bin you are standing at, pick stock out for a job, move it somewhere else, or correct a count that is wrong. One short form each, with a reason, and you are done.
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Take the pairing back whenever you want
Every paired phone is listed in your profile under the name you gave it, and removing one takes effect immediately โ including on a screen still open on that device. Changing your password unpairs all of them at once, on purpose.
About printing from a phone
Labels are what makes the scanning worth having, so printing them from the phone matters. It works, and it is worth knowing how before you set it up.
- On the computer your label printer is plugged into, you mark that browser as a print station โ a one-off, and it does not ask for your password, because a station only ever receives labels you queued.
- You point the phone at the station once to link the two.
- From then on, tapping print on the phone sends the label to that station and the label comes out at the printer.
- You can have more than one station โ one at the bench, one in the office โ and choose where a label appears.
- On a shared computer everybody registers their own, and nobody can print to somebody else's.
The label does not come out of the phone
No phone browser can talk to a label printer. That is a limit of phones rather than a setting waiting to be found, and it is why the print station exists: the phone asks, and a browser that can reach the printer does the printing. If no station is open when you tap print, the label waits until one is instead of being lost.
The step-by-step version
Full walkthroughs for pairing a phone and for printing labels are built into the app, alongside guides for everything else.