Van stock · Jobs · Ordering

Know what’s on every van.

partSmart keeps van stock, job materials and purchase orders in one place. Your fitters see what they’re carrying, the office sees what’s running low, and the order goes to the merchant before anyone is stood on a job without the part.

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Why it pays

Six ways it pays for itself.

None of this is clever. It’s the ordinary cost of not knowing what’s on the van, taken out of the day.

Fewer runs to the merchant

Every van and store is counted and every part has a minimum, so you order before you run out — not from a job, with the customer waiting.

Skip the trade counter

Purchase orders reach the merchant as PDFs before you leave. They pick and pack; you collect. The queue is for people without a PO.

No argument about what was ordered

Every order is a written PO with a number and its lines. What arrives is checked against what was sent, not against anyone’s memory.

See what the other van has

Stock is tracked per location. If the part isn’t on your van, you know which one it is on — before anyone drives to the merchant.

Bill for every part you fit

Materials are recorded on the job as they’re used, so the invoice carries all of them. Nothing gets fitted, forgotten and given away.

Count against what should be there

Stock reports say what each location ought to hold, so a physical count has something to be checked against. Shrinkage shows up instead of vanishing.

Stock control

Three numbers per part, per location.

Stock control falls over when nobody agrees what “low” means. partSmart keeps it to three numbers on every part, on every van — and works everything else out from them.

Qty

What’s there now

The count on that van, on that shelf, at this moment. Adjusted as parts go on and off.

Min

Never drop below

The level that decides whether a part reads as Min, Low or Healthy. Set it once per location.

Std

Back up to

The level you want restored. Order to fill to Std and every part tops back up to this number.

Min Low Healthy
Jobs

Record what went into the job, on the job.

Parts get fitted and forgotten. partSmart records them where the work happens — by voice if hands are full — and takes the stock off the right van at the same time.

  • Pick the client and job, then add materials by voice or by hand.
  • Saving the job deducts from the location the parts actually came off.
  • Add the same part twice and the line tallies up rather than repeating.
  • Copy a job’s material list out in one tap for a quote or a re-order.
  • Timesheets by user and date, with hours totalled per job.
  • Generate and send the invoice straight off the job record.
A job in partSmart with its recorded materials listed underneath, each showing which van it came from
Ordering

From short on the van to a PO in the merchant’s inbox.

The dashboard already knows what’s below minimum. Turn that into a purchase order, split it by supplier, and send it as a proper PDF — without leaving the app.

  • Build an order from dashboard shortages, or pick items yourself.
  • Assign a supplier per line; the order splits into one PO per merchant.
  • Each supplier gets a branded PDF purchase order by email.
  • Replies come back to the person who sent it, not a no-reply mailbox.
  • Fulfil the order and stock lands back on the right van automatically.
  • Track orders as Open, PO Issued or Closed.
The partSmart orders list with Open, PO Issued and Closed filters and per-order email and PDF actions
Built for the van

Plant rooms don’t have coverage.

A stock app that needs four bars is a stock app nobody updates. partSmart takes the change the moment you make it and holds onto it until there’s signal to send it.

  • Changes are written down on the phone first, not sent and hoped for.
  • Queued work survives the app being closed or the phone dying.
  • Repeat changes to the same part collapse into one, so nothing double-counts.
  • Everything syncs on its own once you’re back in coverage.
The partSmart inventory list with Min, Low and Healthy filters, search and per-item quantity controls
One app

Everything the van and the office both need.

Not a stock list bolted onto a spreadsheet — the parts, the people and the paperwork in one place.

Dashboard

Stock health at a glance, filtered by location, with replenishment orders one tap away.

Inventory

Search, adjust and allocate stock across every van and store, with photos to confirm the part.

Voice restock

Say what you used or loaded. No typing on a phone with wet hands in the back of a van.

Jobs

Schedule, status, recorded materials and hours, all on the job record.

Purchase orders

Per-supplier POs as PDFs, emailed from your own domain and tracked to fulfilment.

Quotes & invoices

Draft, edit lines and tax, then send to the client and keep the PDF on file.

Timesheets

Hours by person, date and job, with totals for review at the end of the week.

Suppliers & clients

Merchant and customer records, with a default supplier per part to speed up ordering.

Roles & locations

Create locations, assign who sees which van, and control who can move stock.

The app

Made to be used standing up.

Big targets, plain language and no menus to hunt through — because it gets used in a van door, not at a desk.

partSmart dashboard
Dashboard
partSmart inventory list
Inventory
partSmart jobs list
Jobs
partSmart orders list
Orders

Available on

Android iPhone and iPad
Get started

See it on your own van stock.

We’ll set up your locations and a starting parts list, and show you the whole loop — van to job to purchase order — on your own data.

Book a demo   sales@partsmart.org