Before you start
- A room or a stockroom to walk, and the tags facing outwards where you can see them.
- A decision about scope, which the first screen asks for.
Start it from the button you already press
On screenStart a sweep
Sweep is an iOS control, so it can live in Control Centre, on the Lock Screen, or on the Action Button. That is the point of it being a control rather than a menu item: starting a stock-take should not cost you finding the app first. It is also offered on the Scan screen when scanning one machine at a time is not going to work.
Say what you are sweeping
On screenWhat are you sweeping?
The whole room ticks off whatever is in front of you, with no list to measure against. Picking a stockroom instead gives the sweep a denominator, and the denominator is the half an auditor wants: a sweep with no expectation can say what it saw and never what it failed to see.
Pan, and listen rather than look
The screen says point at a rack and pan, and that is the whole technique. Each tag is ticked off as it is seen: a soft tick for one that was on the list, a distinct double-knock for one this register has never heard of, and deliberate silence for one already done. The silence is the design. Re-reading a tag you just read is the most common event of a walk-round, and a phone that buzzes at you for it becomes a phone you stop believing.
Watch it from the Dynamic Island if you want
A running sweep puts its count on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. If the sweep stops updating, the Live Activity greys out rather than leaving a stale number glowing: one wrong figure within sight of an auditor is precisely the failure this product exists not to commit.
Record what you saw, on the way out
On screenRecord 34 seen
Record 34 seen writes them, and then says the honest thing: recorded as seen, verify each one on its record. Sweeping is not verifying. A technician who pans a shelf has established that a label exists in a room, which is worth a great deal and is not the same as confirming the machine behind it.
Read the three answers
On screenExpected here, not seen
Scoped to a room, the sweep closes with what it could not reconcile: Expected here, not seen. Here, but filed elsewhere. Not on this register. The first is the absence nobody else measures, the second is drift you can fix on the spot, and the third is kit that was never written down.
It is a camera screen. The wording above is quoted from the shipping build rather than paraphrased, including the sentence about seeing not being verifying, because that distinction is the whole reason this feature is shaped the way it is.
Stuck on a step, or a screen here does not match the one in front of you? Write to support@depaloconsultingllc.com and say which step. The app moves faster than this page does.