The questions
before the first day

Create an account, add a product and a unit to go with it. Then print a label and book the first loan. That way you've seen the whole process through once.

You can add rooms, staff and consumables later. It's best to add rooms before units, so each unit gets its location as soon as you add it.

Yourself, under Administration › Import data. You upload your CSV file and first see row by row what would come of it, including errors and the row number where something isn't right. Nothing is written until you give the command. A template with example rows is available there.

All that's needed is the inventory number and product name; everything else is optional. The columns may be named as in your list: Inventory no., Description, Manufacturer and many other spellings are recognised.

The application imports up to 5000 rows per file. Send larger files to us and we'll load them in after reviewing them. We charge for this service by effort and tell you the price beforehand. It is included in the Enterprise subscription.

The product is the model: «MacBook Air 13" M3». The unit is the individual device with its inventory number. Twenty identical notebooks are one product and twenty units.

You maintain acquisition data on the product; the units take it over. If one differs, it carries its own.

Yes. The application follows the device setting: if it is set to dark, Inventaris appears dark too. In the Microsoft Teams tab, the Teams theme applies.

The website, the manual and printed sheets stay light.

On servers in a Tier III data centre in São Paulo, Brazil. We'll name the operator on request.

What we do ourselves is on the «Security and operation» page: separate data spaces, two-step sign-in, logging.

Fully every night. Before the old backup is cleared away, it is checked whether the new one is readable and complete. Daily for fourteen days, then monthly for a year.

At any time, as CSV, without asking and without a reason for cancellation.