Pack every order by your box rules

A prize wheel ships with its stand in a separate box. A desk ships as a top and a frame. Give the product one box per part and set it to Unit split across boxes. Each unit then gets one of each box, with its own content weight.

Set Max qty per box on a product's box and Parcello fills each box up to that number before it opens the next one. Six mugs with a limit of two become three boxes, and each box weighs only what is in it.

Give a product two or three box sizes and set it to Alternative boxes. Parcello starts with the largest box and moves a partly filled box down to the smallest size that still holds it. One unit goes in the small carton, two in the large one, three in a large plus a small.

If you sell packs of cartons, like a 4-pack, 8-pack and 12-pack in mailers that hold one, two or three cartons, set Cartons per unit on each pack. Parcello spreads the cartons across mailers and balances them, so four cartons ship as two and two, not three and one.

Mark a box Only when nothing else fits to keep it as a last resort.

Turn on Combine different products into shared boxes, and products that use the same box type fill it together. Two flavors of the same size ship in one box instead of two.

Some items ship alone in a small box but fit inside a bigger product's box. On the Box sharing tab, give the bigger product room for add-ons and add the small item as a rider. When both are on the order, the small item rides inside. When it is ordered alone, it gets its own box.

On the Operations plan, a product can be packed by its size instead of by the boxes you assign. Enter the size of one packed unit, and Parcello picks boxes from your box library using each box's inside dimensions and weight limit. Every other product keeps its box rules.

Each order shows its line items against its boxes. Change what is in each box, add or remove boxes, and move boxes between shipments. Weights follow the box contents, and you can type a weight by hand after you weigh a box. A box locks once its label is printed.

The packing that fills your orders is the packing Parcello uses to price live rates at checkout, so the quote and the label start from the same boxes. Box rules can be exported and imported as an Excel file.