Build Your First Pallet
Seven short steps from install to a verified container on the ledger. Realistically a coffee break’s worth of time once you have access.
This walkthrough assumes nothing beyond a Business Central environment and an administrator who can grant access. It doesn’t explain the concepts behind each step in depth — for that, the Learn and User Guide sections are linked inline wherever it’s useful. Read this once end to end before your first real container, then keep it open as a checklist the first few times you repeat it.
1. Install
Your Business Central administrator installs ContainerQ in your environment. There’s nothing for you to download or configure yourself — once it’s installed, ContainerQ shows up as a normal part of your Business Central workspace, the same way any other extension does.
2. Get a permission set
Ask your administrator to assign you (or your test user) the full-access role — the one that lets you build, pack, move, and print. The view-only role is for people who only need to look things up, not to run this walkthrough. See the setup reference if you’re the one doing the assigning, or if your organization also needs a real GS1 Company Prefix entered before real labels can print.
3. Build a container
Scan an existing blank license-plate label, or create a new one, and choose what kind of container it is — pallet, tote, or carton. This is the moment ContainerQ assigns it a permanent SSCC, the identifier that follows this specific container for the rest of its life.
4. Pack items onto it
Scan or select the item, lot, and quantity you’re loading onto the container, and repeat for every item going onto it. A mixed pallet with several items and lots is exactly the case packing is built to handle in one place, instead of tracking each item separately by hand. This is also the moment that decides the container’s Binding Mode — what you pack determines whether it ends up Package-bound or Positional-bound.
5. Print its label
Print the container’s label. It carries the SSCC as a GS1-128 barcode, plus item, lot, and expiration data where relevant — see labels & barcodes for exactly what’s encoded and what it does and doesn’t guarantee. If your GS1 Company Prefix isn’t set up yet, expect to see the internal-use watermark on this first label — that’s expected, not an error.
6. Move it to a bin
Scan the container, then scan or select the destination bin. One scan relocates everything packed onto it — you don’t re-state the contents to move them, no matter how many items or lots are on board.
7. Verify it
Open the container’s record and check two things: its Binding Mode, and whether its record currently matches Business Central’s own ledger. A container that reads as ledger-confirmed is the honest end state of a first run — that’s what “it worked” actually looks like here, not just a status flag that hasn’t been checked. If it reads otherwise, don’t treat that as a failure by default; it’s the system telling you honestly where things stand, which is the entire point of checking at all.
Done
You’ve built, packed, printed, moved, and verified a real container. Everything from here is the same loop at scale — more items, more lots, more containers nested inside each other. The glossary and FAQ are good next stops if a term or a question comes up along the way.