Common VinLocate terms

VinLocate has a vocabulary of its own: a storage holds sections, a section holds slots, and a slot holds one bottle. Everything else on this page hangs off those three words.

Tip

Requires a paid plan. Free collections get no VinLocate at all, so none of these terms appear. Home → your collection name → Collection settings → Subscription shows what yours includes.

The words for places

Term	What it means
VinLocate	The 3D model of your own cellar or fridge that you build inside InVintory, so the app can point you at a bottle
Storage	The umbrella word for a cellar or a fridge. Every bottle in your collection belongs to one
Section	One physical unit inside a storage — a rack, a bin or a wine case. On a fridge the app calls it a shelf instead, to match the hardware
Slot	A single position that holds one bottle. Racks have slots; bins do not

Racks, bins and cases

These are the three kinds of section, and picking the right one decides how precise an answer you get later.

Type	Holds	When you locate a bottle
Rack	One bottle per fixed slot	We point you at the exact slot
Bin	Any number of bottles, piled together	We point you at the bin
Wine case	A case kept intact as one unit	We point you at the case

The app puts it this way on the Racks vs. Bins panel: bins are the right choice when bottles are stacked on each other and shift as you pull them out. Racks are the right choice when you want an exact answer.

The words for a position

Term	What it means
Column	How many bottles wide a section is, left to right
Row	How many rows tall it is, stacked upward
Depth	How many bottles deep it is, front to back. Depth 2 means one bottle behind another
Coordinate	The three numbers written together, as in R3, C5, D1. It shows on the bottle and can be printed onto shelf labels
Bottle direction	Which way the cork faces — Towards, Away, Left, Right, Up, Down, Tilt Up, Tilt Down. Purely how the bottle is drawn; it never changes where one is found
Slot type	The shape of a section — Flat, Lattice, Horizontal, Vertical, Tilted, Grid and so on. Pick whichever looks like the real thing

Note

Two things worth being clear on. A section is a whole rack or shelf; a slot is one bottle-sized hole inside it. And a bottle with no slot is not lost — it sits in your collection exactly as normal, and the Without a 3D position filter lists every one of them.

Home → Cellars & fridges → your storage → tap a section

Next steps

• Understanding VinLocate — how it works, and how much of your cellar each plan shows at once
• How to create sections in a storage — building the racks, bins and shelves
• How to customise VinLocate slots — removing slots you do not have, and turning bottles round