Stock-out alerts in Slack: connecting a Slack app's incoming webhook
Create a Slack app, turn on incoming webhooks and get a message in your channel when a product runs out, from the daily stock check.
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Integrations
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Vaccine fridge temperatures from LoRaWAN sensors in OpenBoxes Lift
Send fridge temperatures from The Things Stack or ChirpStack to OpenBoxes Lift (beta), see them by location, and set the alert rule.
Sending monthly stock reports from OpenBoxes to DHIS2
How OpenBoxes Lift fills your monthly stock form in DHIS2: the figures it sends, how the timing works around the 1st and the 10th, and what to set up first.
Your first OpenBoxes API call with an API key
Create an API key in the OpenBoxes Lift portal, make a first REST API call, read the response codes, page through lists and keep the key safe.
Your stock data in Excel or Power BI with Power Query
Bring daily stock, expiry, order and activity figures into Power BI or Excel with a Power Query recipe: the key, the values choice and small refreshes.
A scheduled CSV export for your accountant (or your donor report)
Get stock, value and activity figures as CSV files every day, week or month: how to get them to an accountant, and their limits for a donor report.
Webhooks: react in your own system when a purchase order is received
Use the order.received webhook to act when a purchase order is fully received in OpenBoxes: what it carries, a safe receiver, and when to reconcile instead.
Stock-out alerts in Microsoft Teams with a Workflows webhook
Old Teams connector URLs are refused. Create a Workflows webhook and get a card in your channel when a product runs out, from the daily stock check.
Stock-outs in PagerDuty: paging on-call when stock runs out
Open a PagerDuty incident when a product with a minimum level runs out, and test it without paging anyone. What the daily check does and does not do.
Email, Slack, Teams or PagerDuty: where should your stock alerts go?
What the stock alert email, Slack, Microsoft Teams and PagerDuty each carry in OpenBoxes Lift, and how to choose and combine them for your team.
