Setting Up Warehouses
Warehouses represent physical locations where you store product inventory. To activate a warehouse, you must set its geolocation. The Fedex shipping method uses this geolocation to calculate shipping costs. Read Using the Fedex Shipping Method for more information.
You can use a single warehouse to serve multiple channels or serve a single channel with multiple warehouses. When using the Minium or Speedwell accelerators, three sample warehouses serve one channel.
Before creating a warehouse, you must enable the applicable country and region of the warehouse. See Adding Regions for more information.
Adding a Warehouse
Open the Global Menu (
) and navigate to Commerce → Warehouses.Click Add (
).
Enter a name.
Click Submit.
This creates the new inactive warehouse. You can now add its address, geolocation and activate it.
(Optional) Edit the name and add a description.
Enter the latitude and longitude values for the warehouse in the Geolocation section.
Alternatively, you can configure the Bing Geocoder to generate a warehouse’s geolocation automatically based on the warehouse’s address.
Enter an address for the warehouse in the Address section.
Switch the toggle to Active.
importantYou must set the geolocation before you can activate the warehouse.
Click the Eligibility tab and associate the warehouse to a specific channel or all available channels. This determines the product inventory for a channel.
If you want to associate the warehouse to a specific channel, click the Specific Channels radio button, enter a channel name and click Select.
Click Save.
Using Bing Geocoder to Set a Warehouse’s Geolocation
Liferay integrates with the Bing Maps API to generate geolocations from a warehouse address automatically. To use this feature, you must have a Bing Maps account and a Bing Maps Key.
Then, follow these steps to configure the Bing Geocoder for your instance:
Open the Global Menu (
), and navigate to Control Panel → System Settings → Commerce → Shipping → Bing Geocoder.Enter your API Key.
Click Save.
Once the geocoder is configured, you can generate warehouse geolocations for any warehouse with an address. Navigate to the warehouses page, click the Actions button (
) for the desired warehouse, and select Geolocate. The geocoder converts the address into latitude and longitude coordinates.
Liferay 7.4 U46/GA46 and Below
Open the Global Menu (
), and navigate to Commerce → Warehouses.Click Add (
).
In the Details section, enter a Name and Description (optional).
To activate the warehouse, switch the toggle to Active. Ensure that you enter its geolocation before activation.
In the Channels section, use the checkbox to associate the warehouse to a channel. The associated warehouses determine the product inventory for a channel.
Enter an address for the warehouse in the Address section.
Enter the latitude and longitude values for the warehouse in the Geolocation section.
Alternatively, see Using Bing Geocoder to Set a Warehouse’s Geolocation to learn how to automatically generate a warehouse’s geolocation.
Click Save.
Commerce 2.1 and Below
To add a new warehouse,
Go to Control Panel → Commerce → Settings.
Click the Warehouses tab.
Click Add (
) and enter the following information.- Name: North Vegas Warehouse
- Description: North Vegas Processing Center
Switch the toggle to Active.
Enter an address.
Select a channel. Product inventory for the channel depends on the associated warehouse.
Enter the mandatory geolocation data based on your warehouse’s location.
- Latitude: 36.282974
- Longitude: -115.136
Click Save when finished.
The new warehouse is now active ready to use.