Pinventory

Features

Everything you can do in Pinventory

One trustworthy record for every machine you touch. Here is the whole toolbox — 271 things you can do, across 12 areas of your operation, grouped by what you are working on.

Most of it works for everyone.
Operator
routes, clubs and museums
Pro
the paid plan

Your machines

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One game or the whole fleet — buy it, price it, tune it, track it, sell it.

Add & bring in games

  • Add a pinball machine
  • Add an arcade cabinet
    Pro
  • Add an amusement machine
    Pro
  • Add a change machine for a token location
    Operator
  • Add a game from the catalog or your wishlist
  • Name the edition you want on a wishlist entry
  • Import machines from a spreadsheet
  • Import your whole Pinside collection
  • Import Stern audits across the fleet
    Operator

Identity & condition

  • Edit serial, purchase price and acquisition date
  • Give it an asset ID
    Operator
  • Pick the exact edition (Pro, Premium, LE…)
  • Set a condition grade
  • Change the machine's status
  • Add co-owners with ownership % and amount paid
  • Upload a cover photo (amusement games)
  • Keep free-form notes

Pricing & play

  • Set price per play — cash, tokens or free play
    Operator
  • Add price → credits tiers
    Operator
  • Edit or clear pricing
    Operator
  • Apply one price to many machines at once
    Operator

Settings & backups

  • Record machine settings / adjustments
  • View the factory settings reference
  • Back up a Stern game (.SPB)
  • Back up a Jersey Jack game
  • Download a saved backup to restore on the game
  • Delete a saved backup

Audits, plays & meters

  • Record a meter / audit reading
  • Pick metrics from the game's audit catalog or add custom ones
  • Import JJP audits
  • Chart plays over time for one game
  • Delete a reading

Money on a machine

  • Log a cash collection
    Operator
  • Edit or delete a collection
    Operator
  • See what a game should have at collection, from its audit readings and your play pricing
    Operator
    Pro
  • See payback %, payoff date and total return
    Operator
  • See an estimated market value
  • Set your own value that overrides the estimate

Mods

  • Add a mod with cost, source and dates
  • Install a mod straight from parts inventory
  • Edit or delete a mod
  • Copy a mod to several machines at once

Documents & links

  • Download the game's manual
  • Open resources — Pinside, IPDB, OPDB, Kineticist
  • Attach files — contracts, receipts, PDFs
  • Track amusement licenses & decals
    Operator
  • Get AI-suggested licenses for a machine's town
    Operator

Print, QR & export

  • Print an Asset Card
  • Print a Public Card
    Operator
  • Download a machine's QR as SVG or PNG
  • Export a full machine history report — PDF or CSV

Move, sell & trade

  • Move a machine between locations
    Operator
  • List a machine for sale with an asking price
  • Mark a machine sold — price, date, buyer
  • Trade a game away and take one in, with cash either way
  • Take in more than one game on the same deal
  • Name who you traded with
  • See the whole deal from either side of it
  • Remove a for-sale listing
  • Delete a machine for good

Find & organize the fleet

  • Search by name, maker, edition or location
  • Filter by status, "for sale" or owner
  • Filter to unassigned machines, or to games out on rental
    Operator
  • Sort by newest, most played or highest value
  • Bulk-print cards for the filtered fleet
  • View fleet history — every buy and sell
  • See every license — company, venue and machine
    Operator
  • Track the licenses your company operates under
    Operator
  • Renew a license into its next term in one click
    Operator

Rent a game out

  • Book a game to a customer for a date range
    Operator
    Pro
  • Charge a flat, daily, weekly or monthly rate
    Operator
    Pro
  • See what is out now and what is overdue
    Operator
    Pro
  • Get a heads-up before a rented game is due back
    Operator
    Pro
  • See every rental on a month calendar
    Operator
    Pro
  • Share a public page of what you rent and when it is free
    Operator
    Pro
  • Mark the games you rent out, and see which are free today
    Operator
    Pro
  • Record what the renter paid, and what they still owe
    Operator
    Pro
  • Email the renter a booking confirmation, in your own words and language
    Operator
    Pro
  • Remind the renter before the game is due back
    Operator
    Pro
  • Note the delivery address for a drop-off
    Operator
    Pro
  • Mark a game returned when it comes back
    Operator
    Pro
  • Rental income flows into reports and your accounting push
    Operator
    Pro

Coin, bill & card gear

  • Track a bill validator, coin mech or card system
    Operator
  • Record make, model, serial and what it cost
    Operator
  • Keep a warranty date and see what is still covered
    Operator
  • Mark a unit active, down or retired
    Operator
  • Move a unit to another game, or pull it off the floor
    Operator
  • Note the service history on the unit itself
    Operator
  • Working units count toward what your fleet is worth
    Operator

Your locations

Operators
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The venues your games live in — hours, splits, payouts and the paperwork.

Set up a venue

  • Add a location with address and hours
  • Set open/close times per day (copy Monday to all)
  • Upload a venue logo
  • Group a venue's machines into sections
  • Keep venue notes
  • See all your venues on a live map

Revenue model & payouts

  • Choose a revenue model: per-play split, tokens, or free-play / door
  • Set the operator / venue split %
  • Set a payout frequency — weekly, biweekly, monthly
  • Collect the whole venue on one sheet
  • Count a collection by denomination: coins, 1s, 5s (an option you turn on in Settings)
  • Collect a game after it moved out of a location
  • Record the payout on the Collect sheet, in the same save
  • Record door revenue for a free-play venue
  • Collect a token location: cash and token counters from the change machine, tokens from each game
  • Compare tokens out with tokens counted, per game and over time
  • Record a payout — settle a period or a custom amount
  • Pick a payment method and add a reference
  • Preview & email a branded payout PDF statement
  • Send that statement to up to five venue contacts
  • Write off or settle a remaining balance
  • Export a venue's revenue to CSV
  • Turn on payout tracking

People & paperwork

  • Add or link a contact and mark a primary
  • Attach files — contracts, agreements
  • Track amusement licenses, with AI suggestions

Close-out

  • Close a venue and re-home its machines
  • Read a per-venue activity feed

Contacts & partners

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The people you buy from, sell to, split with and place games with, and the members of your club or museum.

  • Add a contact — a person or a business
  • Record email, phone and notes
  • Save a Pinside, Facebook, Instagram or Discord handle
  • Import a contact from your phone (mobile)
  • See where a contact is used — seller, buyer, co-owner, venue
  • Edit or delete a contact (history is kept)

Members and dues

  • Keep a member roster for a club or museum
    Operator
  • Make any contact a member, with a member number and join date
    Operator
  • Set up membership plans — price and term
    Operator
  • Record dues and the dates they pay for
    Operator
  • See who is active, due soon or lapsed
    Operator
  • Cancel or reinstate a membership
    Operator
  • Let the front desk check a member's status, without seeing dues
    Operator
  • Dues flow into reports and your accounting push
    Operator
    Pro

Invoice a customer

  • Bill a contact for a repair, parts or other work
    Operator
    Pro
  • Add lines with a quantity and a unit price
    Operator
    Pro
  • Number invoices automatically, or carry on your own sequence
    Operator
    Pro
  • Preview and print a branded PDF invoice
    Operator
    Pro
  • Email the invoice to up to five addresses
    Operator
    Pro
  • Mark an invoice paid, and see what is overdue
    Operator
    Pro
  • Paid invoices flow into reports and your accounting push
    Operator
    Pro

Parts & inventory

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Stock on the shelf, what it is worth, and where to buy more.

Track stock

  • Add a part by hand or from the global catalog
  • Set unit cost, bin, quantity and a "reorder at" level
  • Receive stock — qty, cost, date, vendor
  • Add freight and tax so stock carries its landed cost
  • See two values per part — invested (FIFO) and replacement
  • Get low-stock alerts

Cross-reference & source

  • Add several manufacturer part numbers per part
  • Add "where to buy" vendor links
  • Auto-fill a part by pasting a Marco product link
  • Link a part to its catalog entry

Search the catalog

  • Search the global parts catalog by name, number or game
  • Filter by category — bulb, coil, rubber…
  • See which games use a part
  • Browse a single game's parts list

Payment devices

  • Track bill validators, card systems and coin mechs
    Operator
  • Record maker, model, serial, price and warranty
    Operator
  • Assign a unit to a game, or keep it on the shelf as a spare
    Operator
  • Move a unit between games in one step
    Operator
  • Mark a unit down or retired
    Operator
  • Count device value in your reports
    Operator

Labels & bulk

  • Print part label cards — one or a cut-out sheet
  • Show a part's QR code
  • See a part's full usage & receipt history
  • Import parts from a spreadsheet

Reordering & purchasing

Operators
13

Batch what is low, cut a PO, receive the box.

Reorder list

  • Queue a part or an ad-hoc item to reorder
  • Add every low-stock part in one click
  • Group the list by vendor with subtotals
  • Open one-click Buy or Find links

Purchase orders

  • Create an order from a vendor's reorder group
  • Add shipping and tax to an order
  • Receive line by line — shorts return to the list
  • Cancel an order (kept in history)

Email-to-order

  • Forward a vendor confirmation to auto-draft an order
  • Read a PDF invoice attached to the email
  • Match each line to your parts, then confirm
  • Create a new part from a line that matched nothing
  • Copy or regenerate your ordering address

Maintenance, reminders & issues

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Log the work, never miss the next one, and clear what is broken.

Log work

  • Log maintenance — type, date, who did it, photo
  • Itemize parts and labor (pulls from inventory)
  • Start a log from a saved routine
  • Apply one log to several machines
  • Delete a maintenance log entry

Routines & tasks

  • Build a reusable routine — a bundle of tasks and parts
  • Build reusable tasks with default hours and rate

Reminders

  • Set a reminder by date, with an optional repeat
  • Set a reminder by usage — "after N more plays"
  • Mark a reminder done — it re-arms or closes
  • Attach a routine and assign a teammate to a reminder
  • Apply a reminder to many machines
  • Battery reminders track themselves — flag NVRAM to silence

Issues

  • Report an issue — category, description, photo
  • Assign an issue to a teammate — they get email + push
    Operator
  • Resolve an issue (creates a linked repair log)
  • Reopen a resolved issue
  • Hide resolved issues, or show them again

Reports & money

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What you earned, what you own, what it costs — and where to push harder.

Set the lens

  • Pick a period — presets or a custom date range
  • Filter by location or machine
    Operator

Revenue

  • See gross, splits, your share, net and gain/loss
    Operator
  • See payback %, payoff ETA and total return
    Operator
  • See payouts paid vs outstanding
    Operator
  • Chart revenue vs cost and revenue by location
    Operator
  • Break revenue down by game type or maker
    Operator
    Pro
  • Export location & machine performance to CSV
    Operator

Value & valuation

  • See point-in-time value — purchase, with mods, net of upkeep
  • See a market-value estimate
  • Chart value over time
  • Read an insurance valuation (three bases)
  • Filter by co-owner and see value by owner

Expenses & P&L

  • Add, edit and filter business expenses (with mileage)
    Operator
    Pro
  • Record a refund against an expense category
    Operator
    Pro
  • Read a net profit & loss waterfall
    Operator
    Pro
  • Spread a prepaid cost across the months it covers
    Operator
    Pro
  • Read a cash statement beside the accrual P&L
    Operator
    Pro
  • See operating expenses by category and net by location
    Operator
    Pro

Play & performance

  • See plays, average play/ball time and leaderboards
  • Rank machines by earnings efficiency, with fix-it tips
    Operator
    Pro
  • See what share of a location's open hours each game is in play
    Operator
    Pro
  • Attribute labor hours and cost by person and game
    Operator
    Pro

Inventory

  • See inventory value, low stock and parts spend
  • Export any report to CSV

Customers & public reporting

Operators
9

Let players flag a broken game themselves — no app, no login.

  • Let customers scan a machine's QR to report a problem
  • Auto-brand the report page with your name and logo
  • Show it in the customer's own language
  • Pin a note to a game's report page, like "We know the left ramp is out"
  • Route every report into Issues and notify the team
  • Email the reporter when their issue is fixed
  • Turn the email offer off if you would rather not send it
  • Print a Public Card so players can find the QR
  • Choose which settings (if any) show on a public card

Integrations

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Wire Pinventory to the tools you already run.

Pinside

  • Connect and import your collection & wishlist
  • Import flags the games you already own, so nothing doubles up
  • Keep it in sync both ways — adds, edits, sales
  • Let Pinside market prices feed your fleet value

Pinball Map

  • Connect your pinballmap.com account
    Operator
  • Push venues & games to the public map
    Operator

Accounting

  • Connect QuickBooks Online or Xero
    Operator
    Pro
  • Push revenue, payouts, expenses and maintenance as journal entries
    Operator
    Pro
  • Scope a batch by period, location and record type
    Operator
    Pro
  • Preview the entry before anything posts
    Operator
    Pro
  • Tag each entry with the venue it came from
    Operator
    Pro

Chat & orders

  • Get shop-wide alerts in Slack & Discord
    Operator
  • Turn vendor emails into orders (email-to-order)
    Operator

Developers

  • Create an API token and read the docs
  • Read your fleet, locations, parts, maintenance, issues, audits and revenue over REST
  • Let a trusted integration add machines, locations, issues, maintenance, collections and audit readings

Team, account & settings

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Who is on your crew, how the app looks, and how you get notified.

Team

  • Invite teammates by email with a role
    Operator
  • Change roles or remove people
    Operator
  • Limit a member to the venues they actually work
    Operator
  • Cancel a pending invite
    Operator
  • See the permission matrix
    Operator

Your plan

  • Upgrade to Pro or cancel (access runs to period end)
    Pro

Profile & look

  • Upload your business logo
  • Edit business info and contact details
  • Switch theme — system, light or dark

Region & alerts

  • Set your region/currency and date format
  • Turn each alert type on or off; set a license lead time
  • Catch up on every alert in the in-app hub (the bell)
  • See your unread count on the app icon (iOS)
  • Choose which vendors show in your dropdowns
    Operator

Security

  • Change your password
  • Turn on two-factor authentication
    Pro

Your data

5

It is yours. Take all of it, any time.

  • Export everything — 46 CSV tables
  • Download all your files as a foldered .zip
  • Export any single report to CSV
  • Export a machine's full history — PDF or CSV
  • Delete your account and all its data

Your dashboard

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The one screen that tells you what needs you today.

  • See fleet size, value and what needs attention at a glance
  • Jump to open issues, overdue batteries and expiring licenses
  • Get warned before your operator license lapses
    Operator
  • See issues assigned to you
    Operator
  • Read a recent-activity feed of everything that happened
  • Get onboarding tips and a guided tour
  • Follow step-by-step guides for nine core workflows

Ready to track your games in Pinventory?

Free for everyone. No card required. Pro if you want more.