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.
⭐ 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 |
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 |
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