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A prep station is a spot on your floor that makes a certain kind of thing — the cold bench, the oven, the packing table. Prep stations let you split one big board into focused lists, so each station sees only the items it owns and nothing else.

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Why stations help

Without stations, everyone looks at every order and figures out what’s theirs. With stations, the work is already sorted: the person at the oven sees oven items, the packer sees packing. Less scanning, fewer “is this mine?” moments, faster floor.

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How routing works

You tell Dashprep how to send each product to a station using rules. A line item lands at a station based on:
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Product overrides (highest priority)

Pin a specific product to a specific station. Overrides always win, no matter what the other rules say.
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Type or collection rules

Group your catalog either by Shopify product type or by collection, then assign each group to a station. This is the default way most items get routed.
So Dashprep checks for a product override first; if there isn’t one, it uses your type-or-collection mapping.
Prep stations are available on the Advanced and Professional plans. See Plans & pricing.

Set up your stations

Step-by-step: create stations, choose a grouping, and add overrides.