ThreadCount
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Uniform stock management for healthcare linen rooms: the coordinator app, the phone counter and the staff app, for your own server. Built from a113353 on 2026-09-15. Licensed under the Functional Source License (FSL-1.1-ALv2).
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title: ThreadCount in one page
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section: start
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order: 1
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summary: What ThreadCount records, the screens in the menu, who signs in, and where to find each first-month task.
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role: Anyone
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keywords: overview, introduction, menu, screens, what is threadcount, getting started, help, manual, docs
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## What it records
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ThreadCount records uniform stock for one facility and keeps three things in step.
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- **Who holds what.** Every garment issued, returned, exchanged or handed in is written against a person on the staff register, so each person's holding is always current.
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- **The shelf, by size.** Each garment in the catalogue has sizes, and each size has its own on-hand figure, reorder level and supplier code. Issues take stock off the shelf; deliveries and stock takes put it back or correct it.
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- **The order list.** Sizes at or below their reorder level are gathered into one group per supplier, raised as orders, and received against when the delivery arrives.
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All three come from the same records. A garment issued at the counter changes the person's holding and the shelf figure, and if the size drops to its reorder level it appears on the order list.
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## The menu
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The menu down the left side lists the screens in this order.
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| Screen | What it is for |
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| `Today` | The day's queues: bags to collect, the delivery round, requests to pick, deliveries to receive and stock counts, with the first-run steps while a facility is setting up. |
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| `Counter` | Pick the person, scan or pick the garment, record the issue. |
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| `Stock` | On-hand figures by size, reorder levels and adjustments, stock counts, and locations. |
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| `Orders` | Supplier orders, the order list and receiving. |
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| `People` | The staff register and each person's record. `Requests` from the staff app sits with it. |
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| `Reports` | The finance reports, on three tabs. |
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| `Settings` | Facility, Issuing rules, Catalogue & suppliers, Places & cost centres, People & sign-in, Data & audit log, and Plan. |
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`Delivery rounds` belongs with `Today`. The `?` in each screen's heading opens its page in this manual.
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On a narrow screen the bar along the bottom holds `Today`, `Counter`, `Stock` and `More`. `More` holds Orders, People, Requests, Delivery rounds, Reports, Settings, Help and the counter app.
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## Who signs in
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The people who run the linen room sign in as users, and each user has one of two roles.
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- **Admin** sets the facility up and makes the changes that affect everyone: the catalogue, reorder levels, the staff register, users and orders to suppliers.
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- **Issuer** works the counter: issues, returns, requests, stock takes and deliveries.
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The person who creates the facility is its first Admin. Staff who wear the uniform are not users. They sign in to the staff app with a separate account that shows their own record and the requests they are part of. [The two roles](/docs/start/the-two-roles) sets out what each can do.
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## Where the manual lives
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The same pages appear in three places.
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- On the website, under `/docs`.
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- In the app, under `Help`.
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- In the Community edition's source repository, `pricehq/threadcount-community`, in the `docs/manual` folder.
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## How do I…
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| Task | Page |
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| Load the staff register and catalogue from a spreadsheet | [CSV templates](/docs/reference/csv-templates) |
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| Issue a garment at the counter | [Issue a garment](/docs/counter/issue-a-garment) |
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| Set the level at which a size is reordered | [Reorder levels](/docs/stock/reorder-levels) |
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| Count the shelf | [Stocktakes](/docs/stock/stocktakes) |
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| Order from a supplier | [Your first order](/docs/start/your-first-order) |
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| Book in a delivery that arrived short | [Receiving and back orders](/docs/stock/receiving-and-back-orders) |
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| Give a colleague a login | [Users](/docs/account/users) |
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| Get staff onto the staff app | [Staff app](/docs/apps/staff-app) |
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| Close off the month for finance | [Month-end pack](/docs/reports/month-end-pack) |
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| Take a backup of everything | [Export and backup](/docs/account/export-and-backup) |
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