Every plan on loadoptimizer.ai used to start with a vehicle: a container, a trailer, a truck bed. Mixed Palletizing adds a second starting point. Pick it from the sidebar and you get a wizard of its own, built around the pallet.
Start with a Pallet
The first step is a pallet catalogue instead of a carrier list, grouped by region. EPAL and EUR sizes, half and quarter pallets, GMA 48x40 and the 48x48 drum pallet, JIS T11, and the Australian 1165. Ship on something that is not in the list? Enter the footprint yourself and give it a name.
Height is the one thing that works differently from a container. You set the load height above the pallet deck per entry, which is the space your boxes are allowed to fill. Set it from what your racking, doorway, or trailer roof allows, and the total height of the finished unit is shown next to it. Two pallets with the same footprint that need different heights? Add them as two entries and give each one its own.
Everything after that step is familiar. Your box list, the 3D viewer, Edit Mode with its staging panel, the PDF placement instructions, the Excel export you can import again later, and share links all work with pallets the way they already work with loads. A shared link draws a pallet as a pallet, so the person you send it to sees the same unit your team does. Loady comes along too, on every step that has something to fill in: ask for two EUR pallets at a load height of 1800 mm and you get suggestion cards to accept or ignore.
Boxes are stacked from the bottom up, one complete floor at a time, which is how a pallet gets built.
Learn More
Mixed Palletizing is available on paid plans. How It Works walks through the five steps both wizards share, and the Mixed Palletizing page covers the pallet step and the load height above the deck. Sending pallets straight from your own software takes one changed field: the API quickstart has a runnable example in Python and Node.