Inventory software that already knows what a torsion spring is.
Most inventory tools hand a door shop an empty box marked "item name" and leave you to invent a system. This one opens with the 59 parts a door shop actually stocks, asks the questions a door part actually has, and puts away everything that only makes sense in somebody else's trade.
Four fields, and not one of them is a guess. Brand, because Ideal and Clopay are different money. Size and spec, because "torsion spring" alone does not tell a tech which one fits the door. What it is used on, and how you sell it.
The 59 part types a door shop actually stocks
Eleven groups, arrived at by listing what is genuinely on a door shop's shelves rather than by trimming somebody else's catalogue. You can add to them; you will rarely need to.
What it does that a generic tool will not.
Every part says residential or commercial
A 16x7 on a house and a bay door on a shop are not the same job, and the wrong spring is a callback. Each part carries a duty class in colour: green for residential, orange for commercial, and a split marker for anything interchangeable. It is a tag on the part, not a folder you have to remember to file into.
Your trucks are places stock lives
A service truck that left at seven with four springs on it is not a hole in the count. Shops, sea cans and trucks are all just locations, so the whole-business number stays true whether the part is on a shelf or already on the road.
Save an install once, pull it in one tap
A standard install takes the same parts every time. Save that list, then sending the job out deducts the whole thing under the job's name and flags anything you are short before the truck loads. The saved list never changes unless you change it.
Hear about a spring before the roof, not on it
Give anything a minimum. The moment work drags it to that line you get one email, one and not a stream, and it sits on the front screen until it is back above the line. That list is also an order sheet you can send to the supplier without retyping.
The crew can take parts without seeing your prices
Put a tablet on the bench. A crew member taps their name and what they took, and the device stays locked on that screen until the owner's password unlocks it. Every take lands in one running list, so the count is never a mystery and neither is who has what.
It reads a barcode or a photograph
Scan a supplier barcode with the phone camera or a handheld gun and the part comes up. Point the camera at something on the shelf and the form fills itself in for you to confirm. The model proposes, you dispose, and nothing is created behind your back.
What a door shop does not get, on purpose
The same app serves salvage yards and retailers. A door shop opens without the parts of it that belong to somebody else's business, because a screen you will never use is not a free feature, it is clutter you have to learn to ignore.
No public storefront
A door shop sells installs, not parts to the public. The storefront page is a yard's livelihood and a door shop's clutter, so it is off. If yours genuinely wants one, we switch it on for you.
No marketplace listing composer
Same reason. You are not writing Facebook ads for a hinge.
No vehicle teardown
There is nothing to strip in a door shop.
No salvage grading
Condition is New, Used or Damaged, in shop words. Nobody is asked to grade a bracket A, B or C.
No fitment, no left and right
Those belong to auto parts. A door part is a brand and a spec.
What this trade's setup actually looks like.
Asked by owners, answered straight.
Is this built for garage door companies specifically, or is it generic?
Specifically. You pick your business type once at signup and the app supplies this trade's 59 part types, its four item fields, its condition words and its stock-number letters, then switches off the storefront and the marketplace composer, which belong to other trades. It is one app wearing your trade's vocabulary, not a generic tool you have to bend.
Can it handle residential and commercial in one system?
Yes, and it is the point. Every part is tagged residential, commercial, or both, in colour on the row. You are never asked to keep two systems or two spreadsheets.
Do parts on the service trucks count?
Yes. Trucks are locations like any shop or container, so a part on a truck is on hand, just not on a shelf. One tap narrows the count to any one of them.
Does it do purchase orders and receiving?
Not yet, and that is an honest not-yet rather than a roadmap promise. Today you get a reorder list you can edit and send to your supplier. Receiving stock is a plus-quantity entry, not a PO workflow.
What does it cost?
$24.99 a month for the business, after ten days free with no card. It is included at no extra cost with a full Blue Crane app subscription.
Where does my data live?
Photos are stored in Microsoft Azure's Canada Central region in Toronto. Catalogue records and AI processing use Azure services in the United States. Your data is never used to train AI models.
The same instrument, other vocabularies.
Stop counting springs twice.
Count it once, let the work keep it honest, and know what to reorder before the truck is already loaded.