diff --git a/frontend/src/components/DashboardCards.vue b/frontend/src/components/DashboardCards.vue
index 847f3a1..4ac99d4 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/DashboardCards.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/components/DashboardCards.vue
@@ -17,14 +17,16 @@
 
       <!-- exceptions / list: one line per thing, each linking to itself -->
       <ul v-else class="dc-rows">
-        <li v-for="(row, index) in visibleRows(card)" :key="index" class="dc-row">
+        <li v-for="(row, index) in visibleRows(card)" :key="index" class="dc-row"
+            :class="{ 'dc-row-stacked': card.layout === 'stacked' }">
           <router-link v-if="row.link" :to="row.link" class="dc-row-title"
                        :title="row.titletip || undefined">
             {{ row.title }}
           </router-link>
           <span v-else class="dc-row-title dc-row-nolink"
                 :title="row.titletip || undefined">{{ row.title }}</span>
-          <span v-if="row.detail" class="dc-row-detail">{{ row.detail }}</span>
+          <span v-if="row.detail" class="dc-row-detail"
+                :title="row.detailtip || undefined">{{ row.detail }}</span>
           <span v-for="(chip, c) in row.chips" :key="c" class="dc-chip"
                 :class="'dc-chip-' + (chip.level || 'low')" :title="chip.title">
             {{ chip.text }}
@@ -173,6 +175,12 @@ defineExpose({ load })
   min-width: 0;
 }
 .dc-row:last-child { border-bottom: none; }
+/* Stacked: a label on one line, prose beneath. Inline, the label is truncated
+   to make room for text that is then truncated anyway, and neither reads. */
+.dc-row-stacked { flex-direction: column; align-items: stretch; gap: 0.15rem; }
+.dc-row-stacked .dc-row-title { max-width: 100%; }
+.dc-row-stacked .dc-row-detail { white-space: normal; color: var(--text-light); }
+.dc-row-stacked .dc-row-meta { margin-left: 0; padding-left: 0; }
 .dc-row-title {
   font-weight: 600;
   color: var(--link);
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/dashboardCards.js b/frontend/src/components/dashboardCards.js
index 8f9e236..21fb137 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/dashboardCards.js
+++ b/frontend/src/components/dashboardCards.js
@@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ export function mapDetail(card, item) {
   return key ? item[key] : ''
 }
 
+// The untruncated text behind a shortened detail. Same rule as elsewhere: the
+// tooltip explains, it never carries the only copy of something essential.
+export function mapDetailTip(card, item) {
+  const key = card.map && card.map.detailtooltip
+  const full = key ? (item[key] || '') : ''
+  return full && full !== mapDetail(card, item) ? full : ''
+}
+
 export function mapMeta(card, item) {
   const meta = (card.map && card.map.meta) || []
   return meta
@@ -115,6 +123,7 @@ export function cardRows(card) {
     title: mapTitle(card, item),
     titletip: mapTitleTip(card, item),
     detail: mapDetail(card, item),
+    detailtip: mapDetailTip(card, item),
     meta: mapMeta(card, item),
     chips: mapChips(card, item),
     link: mapLink(card, item),
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/dashboardCards.spec.js b/frontend/src/components/dashboardCards.spec.js
index db7779b..5cdfb39 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/dashboardCards.spec.js
+++ b/frontend/src/components/dashboardCards.spec.js
@@ -202,3 +202,27 @@ describe('chips and tooltips', () => {
       .toEqual([])
   })
 })
+
+describe('stacked rows', () => {
+  const card = {
+    render: 'list',
+    layout: 'stacked',
+    map: { title: 'typename', detail: 'message', detailtooltip: 'fullmessage' },
+    _data: [{ typename: 'Recertification', message: 'Short text', fullmessage: 'Short text' }],
+  }
+
+  it('offers no tooltip when the detail is already whole', () => {
+    // A tooltip repeating what is on screen is noise, and it makes the cursor
+    // change for no reason.
+    expect(cardRows(card)[0].detailtip).toBe('')
+  })
+
+  it('offers the full text when the detail was trimmed', () => {
+    const trimmed = { ...card, _data: [{
+      typename: 'General', message: 'Start of a long message...',
+      fullmessage: 'Start of a long message that continues well past the card',
+    }] }
+    expect(cardRows(trimmed)[0].detailtip)
+      .toBe('Start of a long message that continues well past the card')
+  })
+})
diff --git a/plugins/notifications/api/routes.py b/plugins/notifications/api/routes.py
index d38bfb1..034636f 100644
--- a/plugins/notifications/api/routes.py
+++ b/plugins/notifications/api/routes.py
@@ -897,10 +897,16 @@ def dashboard_active():
     out = []
     for row in rows:
         notificationtype = getattr(row, 'notificationtype', None)
+        text = (row.notification or '').strip()
         out.append({
             'notificationid': row.notificationid,
-            'message': (row.notification or '').strip()[:120],
-            'typename': notificationtype.typename if notificationtype else None,
+            # Trimmed for the card, whole text for the tooltip. A notification
+            # is prose written for the floor, so the first hundred characters
+            # are usually enough to recognise which one it is, and the rest is
+            # there when it is not.
+            'message': text[:100] + ('...' if len(text) > 100 else ''),
+            'fullmessage': text,
+            'typename': notificationtype.typename if notificationtype else 'Notification',
             'endtime': row.endtime.isoformat() + 'Z' if row.endtime else None,
         })
     return success_response(out)
diff --git a/plugins/notifications/plugin.py b/plugins/notifications/plugin.py
index a13be3a..54570ea 100644
--- a/plugins/notifications/plugin.py
+++ b/plugins/notifications/plugin.py
@@ -211,11 +211,15 @@ class NotificationsPlugin(BasePlugin):
                 'severity': 'info',
                 'empty': 'hide',
                 'position': 60,
+                # Stacked, not inline: the type is a label and the message is
+                # prose. On one line the type gets truncated to make room for
+                # text that then gets truncated anyway, and neither is
+                # readable.
+                'layout': 'stacked',
                 'map': {
                     'title': 'typename',
                     'detail': 'message',
-                    'meta': [{'key': 'endtime', 'label': 'until',
-                              'format': 'date'}],
+                    'detailtooltip': 'fullmessage',
                     'link': '/notifications/{notificationid}',
                 },
             },
diff --git a/plugins/printers/api/asset_routes.py b/plugins/printers/api/asset_routes.py
index 1aaed1e..80d912e 100644
--- a/plugins/printers/api/asset_routes.py
+++ b/plugins/printers/api/asset_routes.py
@@ -1020,12 +1020,11 @@ def _get_low_supplies_data():
 
         if has_low:
             # location name for the report row
-            location_name = None
-            if asset.locationid:
-                from shopdb.api import Location
-                loc = db.session.get(Location, asset.locationid)
-                if loc:
-                    location_name = loc.locationname
+            # Via the relationship, the way the printers list does it. The
+            # previous lookup went through db.session.get on locationid, and
+            # every row came back with no location even where one is set.
+            location_name = (asset.location.locationname
+                             if asset.location else None)
 
             results.append({
                 'printerid': printer.printerid,
@@ -1441,27 +1440,37 @@ def dashboard_supplies():
     """
     data = _get_low_supplies_data()
 
+    threshold = 5
+    setting = Setting.query.filter_by(key='printers_dashboardpercent').first()
+    if setting and (setting.value or '').strip():
+        try:
+            threshold = int(setting.value)
+        except (TypeError, ValueError):
+            pass
+
     rows = []
     for printer in data.get('printers', []):
-        criticals = [s for s in printer['supplies'] if s['status'] == 'critical']
-        lows = [s for s in printer['supplies'] if s['status'] == 'low']
-        if not criticals and not lows:
+        # The CARD is tighter than the report. The report lists anything the
+        # thresholds call low, which is the right scope for planning an order;
+        # the dashboard is asking what to walk out and change today, and a
+        # cartridge at 18% is not that. Anything at or below the threshold.
+        depleted = [supply for supply in printer['supplies']
+                    if isinstance(supply.get('remaining'), (int, float))
+                    and supply['remaining'] <= threshold]
+        if not depleted:
             continue
-        # Criticals first. Every depleted supply is listed, not just the worst
-        # class - whoever walks out there wants to carry both cartridges.
+        depleted.sort(key=lambda supply: supply['remaining'])
         rows.append({
             'printerid': printer['printerid'],
             'printername': printer['printername'] or printer['assetnumber'],
             'location': printer['location'] or 'No location set',
-            'iscritical': bool(criticals),
-            # One chip per depleted supply: what is low, and on hover what to
-            # order to fix it.
+            'iscritical': any(s['status'] == 'critical' for s in depleted),
             'supplies': [{
                 'text': '{} {}%'.format(_shortsupplyname(supply.get('name')),
                                         supply.get('remaining')),
                 'title': _reordertip(supply),
                 'level': supply.get('status'),
-            } for supply in criticals + lows],
+            } for supply in depleted],
         })
 
     rows.sort(key=lambda r: (not r['iscritical'], r['printername']))
diff --git a/plugins/printers/plugin.py b/plugins/printers/plugin.py
index b4df675..3e6a955 100644
--- a/plugins/printers/plugin.py
+++ b/plugins/printers/plugin.py
@@ -286,6 +286,21 @@ class PrintersPlugin(BasePlugin):
 
         return [printerscli]
 
+    def get_settings_defaults(self) -> List[Dict]:
+        """Settings this plugin owns for the dashboard card."""
+        return [
+            {
+                'key': 'printers_dashboardpercent',
+                'value': '5',
+                'valuetype': 'integer',
+                'category': 'printers',
+                'description': 'Supply percentage at or below which a printer '
+                               'appears on the dashboard. Tighter than the '
+                               'low-supplies report, which is for planning an '
+                               'order rather than walking out to change one.',
+            },
+        ]
+
     def get_dashboard_widgets(self) -> List[Dict]:
         """Dashboard card: printers needing a cartridge.
 
diff --git a/plugins/warranty/api/routes.py b/plugins/warranty/api/routes.py
index 232565b..7bf52f7 100644
--- a/plugins/warranty/api/routes.py
+++ b/plugins/warranty/api/routes.py
@@ -399,13 +399,16 @@ def warranty_report():
 def dashboard_expiring():
     """Warranties running out, and ones that already have.
 
-    Already-expired first, then soonest. Expired stays on the list rather than
-    dropping off: a machine out of warranty is a purchasing decision someone
-    still has to make, and silently removing it the day it lapses is how it gets
-    missed entirely.
+    Identified the way the floor identifies them: the PC's hostname and the
+    MACHINE it drives. Nobody walks out looking for an asset number, and a
+    warranty row for a bay PC is only actionable if you know which bay.
 
-    Horizon is a setting because 90 days suits a site that budgets quarterly and
-    nobody else (ADR-015).
+    No dates. "Expired" or "expiring" is the whole decision - the exact day
+    matters when you are placing the order, which is what the warranty report
+    is for, not when you are scanning a board.
+
+    Already-expired stays listed rather than dropping off the day it lapses,
+    which is how one gets missed entirely.
     """
     from shopdb.api import Setting
 
@@ -421,7 +424,7 @@ def dashboard_expiring():
     horizon = today + timedelta(days=days)
 
     rows = []
-    query = (db.session.query(Warranty, WarrantyAsset, Asset)
+    query = (db.session.query(Warranty, Asset)
              .join(WarrantyAsset, WarrantyAsset.warrantyid == Warranty.warrantyid)
              .join(Asset, Asset.assetid == WarrantyAsset.assetid)
              .filter(Warranty.isactive.is_(True),
@@ -429,16 +432,33 @@ def dashboard_expiring():
                      Warranty.enddate <= horizon,
                      Asset.isactive.is_(True)))
 
-    for warranty, _link, asset in query.all():
+    for warranty, asset in query.all():
         remaining = (warranty.enddate - today).days
+        # Reuses the machine lookup behind the warranty page's machine column,
+        # so the board and the report agree about which bay a PC belongs to.
+        machine = _related_machine(asset)
         rows.append({
             'assetid': asset.assetid,
-            'assetnumber': asset.assetnumber or asset.name or str(asset.assetid),
-            'enddate': warranty.enddate.isoformat(),
-            'provider': warranty.provider,
-            'daysleft': remaining,
+            'hostname': _hostname(asset) or asset.assetnumber or asset.name,
+            'machinenumber': machine['machinenumber'] if machine else None,
             'state': 'expired' if remaining < 0 else 'expiring',
+            'daysleft': remaining,
         })
 
     rows.sort(key=lambda r: r['daysleft'])
     return success_response(rows[:50])
+
+
+def _hostname(asset):
+    """The PC's hostname, when the covered asset is a PC.
+
+    Optional import: a lean site may not install the computers plugin, and a
+    warranty on a printer or a machine has no hostname at all. Falls back to
+    the asset number, which is what the row shows either way.
+    """
+    try:
+        from plugins.computers.models import Computer
+    except ImportError:
+        return None
+    computer = Computer.query.filter_by(assetid=asset.assetid).first()
+    return computer.hostname if computer else None
diff --git a/plugins/warranty/plugin.py b/plugins/warranty/plugin.py
index 70c1bc4..5e9111f 100644
--- a/plugins/warranty/plugin.py
+++ b/plugins/warranty/plugin.py
@@ -133,12 +133,13 @@ class WarrantyPlugin(BasePlugin):
                 'empty': 'hide',
                 'position': 50,
                 'map': {
-                    'title': 'assetnumber',
+                    'title': 'hostname',
                     'detail': 'state',
-                    'meta': [
-                        {'key': 'enddate', 'label': 'ends', 'format': 'date'},
-                        {'key': 'provider'},
-                    ],
+                    # The bay, which is how the floor identifies the PC. No
+                    # date: expired or expiring is the whole decision when
+                    # scanning a board, and the exact day belongs on the report
+                    # you order from.
+                    'meta': [{'key': 'machinenumber', 'label': 'machine'}],
                     'link': '/assets/{assetid}',
                 },
             },