# Staging bin ticker
The staging bin ticker shows every item that has passed through your staging bin, matched by its serial number: when it came in on the left, when it went out on the right. It refreshes about once a minute, so it reads as a live picture of a space someone is standing in front of rather than a report they run at the end of a shift.
Open it from Logistics → Warehouse → Staging bin, where it is the Ticker tab. The ticker used to have its own menu entry; it is now a tab of Staging bin, beside Balance by stock item, and an old link or bookmark opens that tab.
An item shows as still in the bin when, since the last stock count, it has been scanned in more times than it has been scanned out, and its most recent scan was a scan in. Both have to hold. That means an item whose put-away was scanned a minute before its receipt, because two people reached it in the wrong order, nets to zero and clears rather than sitting on the screen for ever. It still keeps its row in the day's list, with a turnaround of zero.
An item that was scanned out of the bin more times than it was scanned in, most often because it was never scanned in at end of line before it was put away to an aisle, shows as negative in staging. The bin gave up an item it was never shown to hold, so the ticker lists it rather than leaving it out.
Nothing carries across a stock count: a count sets the bin to what was physically found, so the ticker starts again from that date and shows it at the top of the screen.
The six figures across the top
| Figure | What it counts |
|---|---|
| In today | Items scanned into the bin today. Items still standing from earlier days are not counted here — they have their own section. |
| Cleared | Of today's items, how many have been scanned back out. |
| Not put away | Today's issues. The number is how many separate problems there are, and the line beneath says how many items they cover between them. |
| Normal turnaround | The median time today's cleared items spent in the bin — the middle of the day, not the average, so one slow item does not move it. |
| Longest waiting | How long the oldest item still in the bin has been there. |
| Negative in staging | Items scanned out of the bin more times than they were scanned in since the last stock count. The line beneath says how many were never scanned in at all. |
The four sections
Not put away today sits at the top, in red, and shows only today. It is the part of the screen that asks for action now, so it is not placed below completed work.
Negative in staging: went out without being scanned in lists each of those items: when it went out, the product, its serial, why it is negative (never scanned in, or scanned out more than in), the bin it went to, who scanned it out, and how far negative it is. Items that went out together through the same scanner on the same day are grouped into one line when there are three or more.
Last 10 put away is what has just finished, newest first. Use All in and out to see the full day in a scrollable list.
Carried over from earlier days is everything scanned in on a previous day with no scan out since the last stock count. These are shown with the full date, including the year, because they can run back a long way and a day and month alone is a guess.
Why a batch shows as one line
When a run of items is scanned in together and none of them is put away, that is one event, not one problem per item. The ticker groups them into a single line showing how many items, when the run started and ended, who scanned them, and how many different products it covers. Click See the items to open the full list.
Items that arrive on their own stay on their own line. A run of two is not treated as a batch — two items arriving close together is a coincidence, and calling it an event would make every group on the screen less trustworthy.
What the screen does not claim
Only what is scanned can show. An item appears because it was scanned in or out. An item scanned out that was never scanned in shows as negative; where no scan happens at all, the bin can hold something the ticker cannot see. The figures are an honest count of what is known, not a claim about what is physically on the floor.
That also means the ticker is not a stock balance. If you need to know what the bin should be holding, use the staging bin balance screen, which reads the bin balance itself.
Related
Staging bin control, in the same menu, is the companion screen: it works per product rather than per item and answers whether the bin balance clears to zero. Use the ticker to see what is moving now, and the control screen to see what the bin is holding.