---
title: Tools
summary: Track tools between projects. Send and receive tools, record lost or damaged tools, and see the tool stock of a project.
menu: Stores > Tool Transfers
who: People who have the View permission on Resource Transfers. Moving tools needs Add. Editing needs Edit. Deleting needs Delete.
---

A tool is an item that your company keeps and uses again and again, for example a drilling machine or a set of scaffolding. A tool is not used up like cement. Superwise keeps the count of each tool at each project, so you know where the tools are.

Three screens in the **Stores** menu cover tools:

| Screen | What you do there |
| --- | --- |
| **Tool Transfers** | Send tools to another project and receive tools that other projects send. See [Tool transfers](transfers.md). |
| **Lost/Damaged** | See the tools that were lost, damaged or never arrived. Add a remark or delete an entry. See [Lost and damaged tools and material](lost-damaged.md). |
| **Tool Inventory** | See how many of each tool the project holds. Report a lost tool. Recast tools into other tools. See [Tool inventory](tool-inventory.md). |

![The Tool Inventory list. Mark 1 is the Export Company-wide button. Mark 2 is the Report View button. Mark 3 is the Recast Tools button. Mark 4 is the Quantity (at site) column. The table is empty because this example project has no tools in stock.](../media/tool-inventory-list.png)

## How tools move

1. Tools join a project when you buy them on a purchase order, or when another project sends them.
2. To move a tool to another project, create a tool transfer. The stock of your project goes down.
3. The other project receives the transfer. Its stock goes up.
4. If a tool is lost or damaged, report it on **Tool Inventory**. If fewer tools arrive than were sent, the difference is written to the lost list.
5. To turn tools into other tools, for example scrap pipes into a pipe frame, use **Recast Tools**.

## Before you start

- Select the project in the project selector at the top of the screen. All three screens show that project.
- The tools must exist in your list of resources, with the type Tool.

## Related pages

- [Tool transfers](transfers.md)
- [Lost and damaged tools and material](lost-damaged.md)
- [Tool inventory](tool-inventory.md)
- [Material transfers](../material-transfer/index.md)