How to Create Contacts for Alerts & Reports

Why Are Contacts Important?

The GPS Trackit software provides Alert capabilities, allowing for in-the-moment notifications regarding vehicles behaviors and data. A vehicle is excessively speeding? A unit has stopped reporting? Equipment has left the assigned job site? Be notified about these events and much more by setting up Alerts! 

Along with in the moment Alerts, GPS Trackit also provides Scheduled Reports. Need to review the mileage every week? Or look over the previous day's speeding violations? Setting a scheduled report means having that information delivered directly to you without needing to login and search for the data. Alerts, Scheduled Reports and Maintenance require Contacts.

What are Contacts?

When an Alert is triggered or a Report is scheduled, the GPS Trackit Cloud software will need which recipients to send it to. Contacts are the potential recipients for these messages and information. There are no limits to the number of Contacts that can be created. And adding someone as a Contact will not give them the ability to login to the tracking platform. Platform access requires the person being added as a User.
How Are Contacts Created?

Contacts are created in the Accounts tab. Click on Accounts, then Contacts. To add a Contact, click on the black Plus button in the upper left corner.

Give each Contact a unique Title in order to tell them apart. This goes in the Title field on the right. Each Contact will be either an email address OR cell phone number, including cell provider.

If the Contact wants to receive some items via text but other via email, create two Contacts. One for each method of contact. Make sure Contacts title contains either ‘email’ or ‘cell’ in order to tell them apart.

Contacts can be edited or deleted at any time. Hovering over the Contact will produce a 3-dot button. Click the button to see the edit and delete options.