Freight is one of the few costs in this business you can attack with arithmetic. A rack that goes out three-quarters full costs the same to ship as a full one, and over a season the difference is significant.
Packing that happens on its own
When an order is saved, GrowerLive works out how it packs onto racks or carts — which products go on which shelf, and how many racks the order needs. Nobody has to do that arithmetic, and nobody has to remember to redo it when the order changes.
See the fill before the truck is loaded
Rack-fill projection appears while the order is still being taken, with a per-product breakdown. That lets the order writer suggest a few more flats to fill the rack while the customer is still on the phone, when it is easiest to fix: "we are two shelves short of a full rack — do you want to round up the four-inch?"
Configured to your equipment
Cart and rack types are set up to match what you actually own, whether that’s Danish carts, CC carts or shop racks: your rack dimensions, your shelf counts, your cart configurations. The packing logic uses those, not a generic assumption about what a rack is. If you do not rack-pack at all, the whole module turns off.
Getting your containers back
Racks and carts are assets, and they disappear. Tracking records where yours are — at which location, with which customer, and how many — so the conversation about a missing count starts with a record instead of a guess.
Over a season that record is worth real money. Every grower who ships on carts loses some, and a count by customer puts numbers behind the deposit and behind the call about missing carts, because you can see which customers send equipment back and which don’t.
Tickets the crew can work from
Rack pick tickets print the packing plan for the people doing the pulling — which products, which quantities, which shelf — so what goes onto each rack matches what the system expects on the truck. When the plan and the load agree, the driver is not sorting it out at the dock and the customer is not receiving a surprise.
Turn it off if you do not work this way
Not every operation rack-packs. If you ship loose on flatbeds, on pallets or in boxes, the whole module — the packing calculation, the projection panel, the pick tickets — stays off, and nothing elsewhere in the platform expects it to be there. Modules you do not use should not be clutter you navigate around.