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London City Bond (LCB) handles bonded-warehouse fulfilment. Once installed, its settings page covers stock, orders and transfers.

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Stock sync

Stock syncs daily into a dedicated inventory location, which requires location-based inventory to be initialised first. Every sync is recorded, whether or not any figure moved, so a run that agreed with LCB throughout is still visible. The integration page lists the last ten runs, each showing how many products were updated, how many were unchanged, and any failures with their reason. Runs also flag unmatched SKUs: stock LCB hold that no product in your store matches. Those never sync, so it’s worth checking the named SKUs and correcting the product they should belong to.

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Goods received

Turn on Record goods received to add stock as soon as London City Bond book goods in, at midday and 7pm, rather than waiting for the next nightly sync. It also closes off any linked stock transfer request raised through Marzipan. This covers supplier deliveries as well as your own transfers, so it’s worth having on even if you never raise a transfer.
London City Bond send this information once only. If anyone at your end currently receives these notices by email, switching this on takes them instead.
A part delivery credits what actually arrived and leaves the rest counting as still on its way.

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Orders

Orders are submitted to LCB over the API, with many orders batched into a single call. Subscription renewals are included: orders shipping later are held and released by a sweep that runs through the day, so a late-settling renewal payment doesn’t wait until the next day.
The flow action is called Fulfil order via LCB. It sends orders due now and holds the rest until their shipping date.

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Stock transfers

Transfers request stock from a source warehouse into your LCB location. Two separate toggles control them:
  • Enable stock transfers — Makes transfers available to raise by hand
  • Request transfers automatically — Runs the overnight check that raises transfers on its own. This depends on stock syncing, since that’s what triggers the check.
Keep Request transfers automatically off until LCB have signed off your test paperwork. Enabling manual transfers alone lets you produce a transfer for sign-off without the nightly job also running.

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Minimum stock levels

A transfer is raised when stock falls below a minimum. Set a default minimum for everything, then add per-item overrides for the lines that move at a different rate, since a fast-selling line and a slow allocation wine rarely want the same trigger.
  • Anything without an override uses the default
  • Setting an item’s minimum to 0 excludes it from transfers entirely
  • Overrides work with no default at all, which restricts transfers to a named list
The manual transfer modal shows which minimum produced each line, so a prefilled list can be checked rather than taken on trust.