Getting started with Fast WMS
Five steps take you from a fresh Fast WMS account to your first completed goods receipt. Most teams finish this checklist in under a day — here is the exact order to work through.
Fast WMS runs the full warehouse lifecycle — inbound, storage, internal movement and outbound — on live perpetual inventory with barcode scanning and thermal-label printing. Before you can process real transactions, you need a handful of masters in place and one clean end-to-end test. This checklist walks you through that in the order that avoids re-work.
The 5-step setup checklist
- Create your core masters. Add your warehouses and stores, units of measure, tax configuration, and users with their role rights. These are the foundation every transaction references.
- Add your item master. Create items with their codes, UOM, carton/piece packaging and pieces-per-pallet. See adding items and SKUs for the field-by-field walkthrough.
- Set up bins and print labels. Define your storage locations, mark at least one staging bin, then print bin labels. Start with setting up your first bin structure.
- Connect Tally or your ERP. Map each Fast WMS store to a Tally godown so receipts and dispatches post automatically. See mapping godowns to Fast WMS stores.
- Run your first GRN. Receive goods against a PO, let Fast WMS split the quantity into pallets, then confirm putaway. This proves the whole chain end to end.
Received stock does not become available the moment you scan it in. Fast WMS commits inbound inventory at Putaway Confirmation — when the pallet moves from the staging bin to its rack bin. If your test stock is not showing as pickable, you have almost certainly skipped putaway confirmation.
Why this order matters
Each step depends on the one before it. Items reference UOM and packaging; bins reference stores; putaway needs both bins and items to exist; and the GRN test needs all of it. Working top to bottom means you never have to go back and re-key a master. Once your first GRN and putaway confirmation succeed, the rest of daily operations — picking, dispatch and reporting — follow the same document engine.
Frequently asked questions
Most teams complete the five-step checklist — masters, bins, item import, ERP mapping and a first GRN — in under a day. A full rollout across a large warehouse with slotting rules and handheld scanning usually takes a few weeks.
Inbound stock commits at Putaway Confirmation, not at goods receipt. Until you confirm putaway, the pallet is staged and not yet available for picking.
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Our team can walk your warehouse through masters, bins and your first GRN in a live 30-minute session — on your items and your locations.
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