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title: Clients & Locations
description: Managing the clients and physical locations used across your projects.
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## Clients

Clients represent the end-customers on whose behalf you are handling goods. A client can be linked to multiple projects and invoices.

### Managing clients

Navigate to **Settings → Clients** to view, add, and edit clients. Only the **name** is required when creating a client.
Once a client exists, it can be selected when:

* Creating or editing a **project**.
* Creating an **invoice**.
* Creating a **quote**.
* Creating a **container**.

### Client filtering

Many views throughout the platform — inventory, packing lists, invoices, and reports — can be filtered by client, giving you a single-client view of activity.

## Locations

Locations represent physical sites where inventory can be stored or collected — warehouses, depots, ports, etc.

### Location fields

| Field       | Description                                                                 |
| ----------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Name**    | A short descriptive name (e.g. "London Warehouse").                         |
| **Type**    | Categorises the site (e.g. `warehouse`, `port`, `depot`).                   |
| **Address** | Full postal address: line 1, line 2, city, state/county, postcode, country. |

### Managing locations

Navigate to **Settings → Locations** to create and edit locations.
A location can be set as the default location for a **project**, meaning all inventory within that project is associated with it unless overridden at the item level.

### Location filtering

Inventory lists and reports can be filtered by location. Access scopes can also restrict users to specific locations — see [Permissions](/guides/settings/roles-permissions).