Getting Started with BinSentry for Mill Administrators

Get up and running with your account in a few simple steps.

1. First things first, accepting your invitation to your account will give you access to your inventory. It only takes a minute or two to complete and we walk you through the whole process. 
   • Accepting your BinSentry account invitation
2. The next thing to do is set up your metrics and choose how you want your information to be displayed (ex. Pounds, Tons, Percentage). 
   • Change your personal profile metrics
3. Now that you have your metrics set, enable some notifications to be alerted to the things you care about most. Such as; barns going empty or slides not being managed properly. 
   • Set up a series of Notifications
     
     
4. Your profile metrics and notifications are all set up, now it's time to check your inventory. Whether you're viewing your inventory on bin cards, bin pages or barn pages you'll see the same inventory throughout our dashboard.  
   • Navigate the Dashboard and view bin levels?
     
     
     
     
5. Now that you're looking at your inventory, make sure to keep your bulk density and feed types up-to-date. 
   • How to update the bulk density of a bin 
   • Feed Types are important, learn how to set them up
   • Why bulk density is important 
6. Excellent! You're well on your way, now it's time to expand your userbase. You can provide the right access and manage who can see your inventory. Once your account is setup,  take these steps to add users. 
   • Learn about the various roles in BinSentry and what they do
   • Add new users 
   • Provide the right access and change user permissions
7. Placing and managing orders is easy now that your Feed Types have been added.  
   • Everything is setup for you to create and save orders in BinSentry.
   • You can even view all orders created, past or present, on our Order Manager page.