# Unit Pins Drivers Can Move from the Field | PortaPro

> Source: https://www.portaprosoftware.com/features/unit-pins
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> Every unit's exact spot on the site map, and drivers who move the pin when the unit moves, by GPS or by hand, with accuracy and history recorded.

# Map pins for every unit on a job site

The unit moved. Now the pin does too.

When a foreman drags two toilets to the outfield fence, the driver who finds them moves the pin from the field, and the office sees who, when, and how far.

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A site is an address.

A unit is a spot on it.

A phone's GPS can tell the infield from the outfield fence. It can't tell apart two units a metre apart, and PortaPro doesn't pretend to. So a pin holds a cluster, tagged serials or plain counts like three standards and one ADA, which is why this works for fleets that were never serialized.

## The driver drives to the unit, not the mailbox.

Every pin at the site is on the job sheet, with the units on it and the access note somebody typed the first time. On a twenty-acre fairground that is the difference between a ten-minute stop and a forty-minute one.

And when the pin is wrong, the person standing next to the unit is the one who fixes it.

## From the driver's phone to the office map.

1. ### Stand next to it. Move the pin.  
Tap the unit's pin and Move pin here snaps it to the phone's position, with the accuracy recorded. Under a canopy or between buildings, a loose fix turns that button off. Adjust on the map lets the driver drag the pin on satellite instead, recorded as a drag with no accuracy claimed.
2. ### Only some of them moved.  
Switch on Only some, tick the tagged units or count the untracked ones, and name the new pin. They move; the rest stay. On a delivery, Drop units here puts the job's units on the ground at a new pin. Scan unit tag places that exact unit. Behind a locked fence, Flag it for relocation leaves an orange flag and a note until someone moves the pin.
3. ### The office sees who, how, and how far.  
The customer's pin map in the office updates while the driver is still at the unit, and the job gets a note for every move. The pin's history reads in plain words: moved 87 m to the driver's GPS, one unit moved to a new pin by the scale house. The office can drag a pin through the same recorded action, and on a unit with a GPS tag, move the pin to the tag's last position in one click.  
[Tags and driftarrow\_forward](https://www.portaprosoftware.com/features/gps-tracking)

## Questions operators ask

Do drivers need special hardware?arrow\_forward

No. The phone is the sensor. GPS trackers are a separate, optional product; where a unit has one, the office can move its pin to the tracker's last fix in one click.

Does moving a pin change the invoice?arrow\_forward

No. Billing comes from the rate card, which declares what is at the site. Pins record where units physically sit, so moving or splitting one changes neither the count nor the bill.

Can any driver move any pin?arrow\_forward

A driver moves pins from a job at that customer's site. A job assigned to someone else, or a pin at a different customer, is refused with a clear message. Office roles can move any pin. If the unit went to a different site entirely, the driver scans or drops it from the new site's job, and the old pin's history records that it left.

Does it work without signal?arrow\_forward

Yes. Moves, drops, scans, and flags are saved on the phone and sent when it reconnects. If the office changed that pin in the meantime, the queued move is dropped rather than retried, and the pin stays as the office left it.

Works with

* [GPS tracking and driftarrow\_forward](https://www.portaprosoftware.com/features/gps-tracking)
* [Venue blueprintingarrow\_forward](https://www.portaprosoftware.com/features/venue-blueprinting)
* [Driver apparrow\_forward](https://www.portaprosoftware.com/features/mobile-app)
* [Unit tag scanningarrow\_forward](https://www.portaprosoftware.com/features/google-vision)

## Watch a pin move from the field.

A driver taps a pin, it snaps to their position, and the office map updates while you watch.

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