Booking a delivery into stock by hand is slow: you retype part numbers, quantities, and prices from a packing slip, and every retyped field is a chance to get it wrong. PartsBox receives an order by scanning instead.
Scan a distributor's barcode on an incoming part and PartsBox reads the part, the quantity, and the price from the label, then receives that line against the order and adds the stock. Receive the whole order at once, or part of it, into a storage location. Partial deliveries are normal: PartsBox receives what arrived and keeps the rest of the order open until it comes.
Scanning is one of three ways to receive. The order's receiving screen books all or part of an order into one location with a few clicks, and the add-stock dialog on a part offers the open order and pre-fills quantity and price. Use whichever fits the delivery: the receiving screen for a clean full box, scanning for a mixed one.
If you placed a DigiKey order with PartsBox ID Anything™ codes in the cart, receiving is automatic. Scan the barcodes on the boxes as they arrive and PartsBox matches each one to the right order line for you, with no picking from a list. Print the order's own code on the paperwork and one scan later pulls the order up on any machine.
A part measured by length, weight, or volume arrives as whole vendor packages — a reel, a spool, a container. PartsBox converts each received package into the part's own unit using its package quantity, so receiving two spools of 10000 mm adds 20000 mm of stock.
Receiving against an order is part of purchasing, which starts on the Essentials plan. Booking stock by scanning a barcode without an order — the general mechanism, the supported label types, and the scanners that work — is covered under barcode scanning, where a USB scanner works on every plan, including the free Maker plan.