Tool management software

Tracker 7 product overview

Easy to use software that cuts cost

Tracker 7 is equipment, inventory, and tool management software. Construction companies, municipalities, utilities, the military, and oil and gas companies use it to make employees accountable and cut cost.

The Construction Tracker is a complete tool tracking package and the foundation for the Tracker's optional, extra-cost modules. The Construction Tracker is for mid-sized to large organizations that want to assign tools and equipment to jobs, employees, trucks or storage sites for days, weeks, or months at a time.

The Tool Crib Tracker, which combines the Construction Tracker and Employees module, is for organizations that assign tools and equipment to employees in the morning and expect their return to a tool crib in the afternoon.

The Maintenance Tracker, which consists of the Construction Tracker and Repair and Maintenance module, is for heavy equipment operators and vehicle-management groups that want to schedule equipment and vehicle maintenance and track repair costs.

Tracker Lite, a free, stripped down-version of the Construction Tracker, is ideal for smaller organizations that need to track 195 or fewer items.

Optional modules

These optional, extra-cost modules can be added to the Construction, Tool Crib, or Maintenance Tracker at any time, over the phone, without re-entering data. Stationary barcoding is the only optional module available with Tracker Lite.

Employees. Automatically included with the Tool Crib Tracker. Track tools checked out to, from and by employees. Customization and security features. Dispatching.

Custom Reports. Modify the Tracker’s standard reports and add completely new reports to fit your needs.

Supplies and Small Tools. Manage less-expensive items (hand tools and inventory)in quantity. Kits, containers, and order points.

Barcoding eliminates typing, speeds up data collection and reduces errors. The Tracker’s barcode system can be tailored to your company using off-the-shelf components.

Barcode label software is integrated with the Tracker, so you can print your labels in-house on standard paper stock. Covered with clear plastic packing tape, paper labels are water, chemical, and scratch-resistant. Or, if you wish, you can use externally-printed labels.

Laser scanners and wands. Laser scanners have a higher read rate, are easier to use, but cost more.

Stationary and portable readers. Stationary readers, which are attached to a computer by a cable or a radio connection, are less expensive than portable readers. They work well if everything in your warehouse passes through a single door or across a single counter. We recommend the stationary reader pictured below, but many different stationary readers can be used with the Tracker. If you need to collect data away from your computer, you need a battery-powered, portable reader, which can scan items as they’re loaded or unloaded from a truck or delivered to a job site. The portable readers pictured below have been programmed to work with the Tracker. Others could be used, but custom programming would be required.

Stationary scanners. Many options are available. Pictured here: a CCD scanner. For more information, visit www.barcodehq.com.
Portable palm-size TriCoder with integrated laser (6.5 x 4.5 x 1 in 12 oz.). The TriCoder can also use external scanners like the CCD scanner pictured above. For more information, visit www.barcodehq.com.
Portable pen-size LaserLite laser. For more information, visit www.videx.com.
Pen and palm-sized portable readers. Our pen-size reader is designed for simplicity and ease of use, our palm-sized reader for flexibility and functionality. The pen-size reader is easy to use because it’s functionally limited. It contains, for example, just one program: turn it on and it’s ready to check your tools in and out. The palm-sized reader is more complicated but does more. It contains, for example, 3 different programs: check in and out, receiving, and physical inventories. Turn it on, pick the program you want, then go. The palm-size reader has a keyboard, the pen-size reader does not. If a barcode label is unreadable, you can type it into the palm-size reader. With the pen-size reader, such data must be entered (somewhat laboriously) with a bar code ‘cheat sheet.’

Billing. Tool management software that turns your tool room into a profit center. Automatically processes tool and equipment sale and rental rates as items are checked out, including job discounts and rental caps. Export billing data to your job cost system with the Tracker’s American Contractor, ComputerEase or Timberline link.

Repair and Maintenance. Automatically included with the Maintenance Tracker. Track repair histories and costs, produce preventive maintenance schedules, pop up reminders when maintenance is due.

Multi-user. Allows more than one person use the Tracker at the same time over a network. The single-user Tracker can be installed on a network and accessed by more than one person, but only one at a time.

Integrates with accounting software

Add high-speed inventory and tool management software (optionally, with barcoding) to your accounting software.

American Contractor, ComputerEase and Timberline integration are included with the Construction, Tool Crib and Maintenance Trackers at no additional charge. The Tracker can be custom-integrated with other accounting systems.

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