When you purchase new NLIS devices, the device manufacturer will notify the NLIS database of the purchase and upload the details of those devices to the database. You can download a file of those devices and import them into your Phoenix Livestock program. Consequently you will have a list of available devices to apply to animals using the Apply Devices event.
Download the file of purchased devices using the procedure as described previously for comparing records.
After logging into the NLIS database, choose the "Purchased Devices" option, select E-mail output and specify a start date and end date that easily covers the time of purchase. The date that is recorded for the purchase might not be exactly the date that you picked up your tags, so leave a bit of room either side of the date. In Setup Devices, there is an Import button to import the details downloaded in this file.
