A tool is lying in the wash bay, in the boot of a customer's car or at the workshop next door. Anyone who scans the Tulz label with a phone and is not signed in – a colleague without an account, a customer, the towing service – sees a short found page instead of the sign-in page: the name of your business, the inventory number and description of the tool and the note "Please hand it in at the tool crib". If the finder cannot bring the tool straight away, they can report where it is with just a few details.
What the finder sees and does
- Scan the QR code on the label (camera app).
- The found page shows the business, inventory number and description – nothing else: no storage location, no employee, no status.
- Under Report as found, enter Where found (required, e.g. "wash bay, workshop 2"), and optionally a name and phone or email for questions.
- Report find – done. The page says thank you, and the workshop has been notified.
Employees tap Sign in and land directly on the tool page after signing in. Anyone already signed in goes straight to the tool page when scanning, as usual.
What the workshop receives
- Everyone with the right Create and edit tools at the tool's site (tool crib, foremen, head-office administrators) receives the notification "Tool found: WZ-0042" with the place where it was found – in the bell and as a push message on the phone. Each person can adjust this under Notifications → What would you like to be notified about?.
- If the tool has been reported lost, the notification says so.
- At the top of the tool page, the section Reported as found appears with the time, the place and – if given – the finder's name and contact details.
Step by step: close a found report
- Tap the notification – the tool page opens at the Reported as found section.
- Collect the tool or contact the finder.
- Optionally enter a note (e.g. "collected and put away") and click Done.
- If the tool had been reported lost: use To loss report to set the report to Found again – only then is the tool available again and people waiting for it are notified.
The found report and its closure appear in the tool's timeline and in the log.
Switch on and off
Settings → Workshop floor → Found report via QR label (default: on). When switched off, the label leads straight to the sign-in page for anyone not signed in. Signed-in employees do not notice the setting.
Protection against misuse and data protection
- The found page exists only for the exact inventory number of an existing tool that has not been retired; unknown numbers lead to the sign-in page.
- The form is protected like the other public forms (invisible security check, minimum time, limits per address and per tool).
- The finder's name and contact details are optional and visible only to the tool crib and foremen. Tulz deletes closed reports after 90 days and open ones after a year.
- Tip: the extra line on labels (Settings → Business) is a good place for "Found it? Scan the QR code".
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