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# Equipment Tracking for Roofing Contractors | InventoryHQ

> Track every drone, ladder, tablet, and tool your team owns. InventoryHQ gives you real-time visibility so expensive equipment never goes missing.

Equipment is one of the largest line items in a roofing contractor's budget — and one of the easiest to lose track of. A \$10,000 thermal drone can sit in the back of the wrong truck for weeks before anyone notices it's gone. Ladders walk off job sites. Tablets disappear between crews. Without a dedicated system, the cost of unaccounted equipment quietly eats into your margins every season.

InventoryHQ gives you a single place to record, assign, and monitor every piece of company-owned equipment. You always know who has what, where it is, and how long they've had it — so nothing falls through the cracks.

## What You Can Track

InventoryHQ is built to handle the full range of equipment a roofing or trades team relies on:

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  <Card title="High-Value Assets" icon="drone" href="/equipment/assigning-equipment">
    Thermal drones, cameras, inspection tools, and other expensive equipment where accountability is critical.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Field Tools & Gear" icon="screwdriver-wrench" href="/equipment/assigning-equipment">
    Nail guns, compressors, generators, ladders, and hand tools assigned to crews or job sites.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Technology & Devices" icon="laptop" href="/equipment/assigning-equipment">
    Tablets, laptops, phones, and measuring devices issued to team members or kept at a location.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Vehicles & Storage" icon="truck" href="/equipment/tracking-assets">
    Service trucks and vehicles used as equipment hubs, with their own assigned inventory.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Equipment Only Plan

If your team's primary need is equipment accountability — not full inventory or job costing — the **Equipment Only plan** is built for you. At **\$99/month** for up to 5 users, it gives your team a clean, focused system for tracking who owns what without the overhead of the full platform.

<Note>
  Need job-level tracking, warehouse inventory, and reporting alongside equipment management? The **Core Plan** at \$199/month includes all of that. See [Billing & Plans](/settings/billing-and-plans) for a full comparison.
</Note>

## How Equipment Tracking Works

Every item you add to InventoryHQ gets its own record — with a name, description, and assignment history. You can assign equipment to a **team member**, a **vehicle**, or a **job**. When the work is done, equipment gets checked back in and becomes available again.

The assignment history never disappears. Even after equipment is returned, you can look back and see exactly who had it, when they received it, and when it was returned. That history becomes your accountability trail.

## Next Steps

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  <Card title="Assigning Equipment" icon="user-check" href="/equipment/assigning-equipment">
    Learn how to add equipment to InventoryHQ and assign it to a team member, vehicle, or job.
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  <Card title="Tracking Assets" icon="magnifying-glass" href="/equipment/tracking-assets">
    View all equipment at a glance, run audits, and flag anything that's unaccounted for.
  </Card>
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