We’ve just completed inventorying hundreds of tools on our trucks and in our shop – model & serial #’s, location, condition, value, etc. complete with digital pictures of each item. Does anyone have experience with any Tool Tracking software that’s easy to use and reasonably priced?
I’d like to find something soon before just dumping into an Excel spreadsheet. I’d like to find something that the digital pix can be used in.
Thanks!
I’d like to find something soon before just dumping into an Excel spreadsheet. I’d like to find something that the digital pix can be used in.
Thanks!
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Maybe call your insurance company and see if they can recommend software for home inventory use.
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"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
What are you looking for that an excel sheet could not do?
I would start a sheet with a column for tool #, manufacturer, model #, serial #, location, condition, value, and type of tool. The tool number would start with 00001 and go up from there.
Then create a folder for your pictures and name the pictures so they correspond with the tool number. You should easily be able to keep track of things this way.
Of course I didn't know that there were tool tracking programs out there so maybe I just don't understand what one can give you.
Jon Blakemore
RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
This would probably be a good project for a Microsoft Access data base. Access will accept pictures in a couple of ways, depending upon how much space you want to devote to the pictures. With a database, you could add all kinds of comments and then create canned inquiries to search and/or count a variety of descriptors. Probably not a job for a computer neophyte, but Access has a lot of templates and aids built in, so it could be done with someone that has the time and patience to tackle it.