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Adding Inventory

Adding Machinery & Equipment, Structures and Tools enables critical records to be saved against them. Procedures and Checklists can be attached and maintenance recorded.

Note: Your Access Level may restrict the use of some features.

For App use, see Adding Inventory (App).

  1. From the left menu, navigate to Inventory Machinery & Equipment or Structures or Tools.
  2. Click Add New.
  3. Complete the form as required.

    Tip: When naming your inventory, give the item a common name that would be used by your workers to make it easily identifiable.


    • Options specific to Machinery & Equipment:
      • Registration expiry
        Registration expiry date.
      • Set registration expiry reminder?
        If ticked, a task and notification will be generated as a reminder to re-register 7 days prior to expiry date.
      • Tickets or licence needed to operate?
        Tick the checkbox if relevant.
      • Odometer units
        To capture an odometer reading via the App, you must set the relevant units (hours, kilometres, miles).
      • Odometer reading
        Ender to current engine hours or odometer reading.
      • Schedule next maintenance by
        Indicate whether maintenance should be scheduled by date or by odometer units/hours for the item.
      • Next maintenance due at
        Enter when next maintenance is due.
      • Generate reminder at
        If tracking next maintenance by odometer units (hours, kilometres, miles), define how far in advance you want a reminder (task and push notification) generated.
      • Purpose
        Allows you to describe details of the next maintenance.
      • Maintenance frequency notes
        Allows you to record any other general notes about maintenance scheduling for the item.
    • Options specific to Tools:
      • Test/tag Expiry
        Captures when the last conducted test/tag expires. 
      • Set test/tag expiry reminder?
        If ticked, a task and notification will be generated as a reminder 30 days prior to the Test/tag expiry date.
      • Ticket or licence needed to operate?
        Tick the checkbox if relevant.
  4. (Optional) Upload Image
  5. Click Save.

Note:  A unique QR Code will be automatically created when the item is saved.

(QR codes are not available on a Standard subscription.)