Introduction

Quick Start

From invitation to your first tracked order.

Quick Start

Step 1: Get an invitation

Innovators Parts has no open signup. An admin or owner of your team invites you by email address, and that invitation is what lets you in.

Ask an admin to invite you from Organization → Invite a Member.

The invitation is tied to the exact address it was sent to. Sign in with a different address — including a different Google account — and you will be turned away, because as far as the app can tell you were never invited.

Step 2: Create your account

Two ways in, both fine:

  • Continue with Google on the sign-in page, using the invited address
  • The link in the invitation email, which opens a signup form with your address already filled in — choose a password and you are done

Either way you land in your team's organization straight away. There is nothing to set up and no invitation to go and accept afterwards.

Already have an account? Just sign in. The invitation is picked up automatically.

Step 3: Add your first part

  1. Click Add part
  2. Paste the product URL into External link

For many vendors that is enough — the name, SKU and price are filled in for you. Fill in anything that is missing, set the quantity, and save.

Your part joins that vendor's open order, or starts one if there isn't an open order for that vendor yet. Add parts from two vendors and you get two orders, one per checkout you will actually do.

The most useful habit is pasting the link first and letting the lookup do the typing.

Step 4: Buy it

When the order is ready, open it and click Order from vendor. Where the vendor supports it, your cart is built in one click; otherwise you get a list of links to work through in the same tab.

Once you have paid, open Shipping & payment details and record the tracking number, the shipping and tax, and how it was paid — a card, a Kit of Parts voucher, or a mix. Attach the receipt while you have it in front of you; finding it again in March is nobody's idea of fun.

Step 5: Move it along

Drag the order between board columns as it progresses — To order, then Ordered, then Arrived. The whole order moves together, because that is how the box actually turns up.

Step 6: Invite the rest of the team

Admins and owners can bring everyone else in from Organization → Invite a Member. Choose Admin for people who should manage tags and members, or Member for everyone else.

Since signups are invitation-only, this is the only way to add someone — nobody can create an account on their own.

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