Equipment tracking for restoration contractors
Which house is dehumidifier #14 drying?
Restoration equipment spends days at customers' properties, a few units per room. FlowNext records when each unit was set at a job and when it came back, from a tech's phone.
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FlowNextWhat a tech sees after scanning a tag with their phone camera
Where it goes wrong today
Units left behind
When a dry-out ends, the job's list shows every unit still there — the ones that would otherwise stay in a basement until the homeowner calls.
Dates on every move
Each move is time-stamped with who made it, so you have a record of when each unit arrived at a job and when it left.
Storm events
After a big storm, dozens of units go out in a day. Field techs scan as they place them; the office sees the whole fleet without a whiteboard.
What restoration contractors tag first
- LGR dehumidifiers
- Air movers
- Air scrubbers and HEPA units
- Moisture meters and thermal cameras
- Hydroxyl and ozone generators
- Truck-mount and portable extractors
Locations are whatever matches how you work: “Warehouse”, “Van 2”, “Kowalski residence - basement”. Every move is recorded with who made it and when.
New accounts can start from a ready-made Restoration category set: Dehumidifiers, Air movers, Air scrubbers, Moisture meters and thermal cameras, Extractors, and Generators, each with a typical inspection or service interval you can change.
Inspections and due dates
Restoration units are maintained on condition — LGR coils, scrubber HEPA filters, extractor hours. Moisture meters and thermal cameras are the exception: give them a yearly calibration interval and upload each calibration certificate.
Placing and pulling units on a loss
A tech arrives at a flooded basement and sets two LGR dehumidifiers and six air movers. For each one they scan the tag, tap Move it and type the job — “Kowalski residence - basement” — creating it on the spot the first time. The phone's location is saved with each move.
Through the dry-out, the job's page lists every unit placed there and the date each one arrived. Nobody keeps a whiteboard of which units are at which loss.
On the pull, each unit is scanned back to the van or the warehouse. Anything still listed at the job afterwards was left behind — before the homeowner finds it. The move dates in each unit's history, which also export to CSV, are the record you count equipment days from when you write the invoice.
After a storm, when dozens of units go out in a day, the equipment by location report shows the whole fleet by job with a breakdown of what's at each one.
How tags, phone updates and reports work in detail: features. Plans and limits: pricing.
Questions
Can I see how long a unit has been at a job?+
Each unit's history shows when it was moved to the job and by whom, and the full history exports to CSV.
Our techs work in basements with bad signal.+
The tag page is deliberately tiny — no app, no web font, no scripts — so it loads on a weak connection.
Can a tech add a new job from the driveway?+
Yes. In Move it, they type the new job's name and the unit is moved there; the job appears in the office's location list.
Tag your first ten items this afternoon
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