Consumption and Real Estate
HomeManage Home Inventory Windows Software
- Create a professional home inventory with unlimited entries, categories and locations.
- Start Planning your Estate today. AssetManage will keep track of beneficiaries and what assets they will inherit.
- Easily track leases and warranties. Use the item notebook to keep track of maintenance and repair costs
- Generate comprehensive & useful reports with the powerful AssetManage reporting services.
- Your data will always be safe with our automatic data backup capabilities.
Use HomeManage Home Inventory to quickly inventory your personal possessions. Invaluable for insurance purposes in the case of theft or loss due to natural disaster. Use our Estate Planning features to keep track of your beneficiaries and which possessions each will receive from your estate. Organize items by Category, Room, Month of Purchase and more. Attach images, files and URLs to your records. Easily track changes in Status or Location. Each item has an associated ‘Item Notebook’ where you can track repairs and other expenses related to a possession. HomeManage Home makes it simple to store the barcode on your CD’s, books and other possessions. When you later need to retreive the data for that item, just scan the item barcode and the record pertaining to that item will appear. If you have a vacation home or investment property, HomeManage allows you to track multiple residences. Warranty information can be recorded for each asset, you can then check to see which warranties are due to expire in the time frame you specify.
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List Price: $ 49.95
Price: $ 39.95
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Review by Michael for HomeManage Home Inventory Windows Software
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I have been putting the evaluation version of this product through some testing. The program has a lot going for it – great features, very good UI, very flexible, very powerful – it should be a winner. However, the current version as of July 2010 has some pretty signficant bugs, and there appears to be no support. The company does not respond to emails, and a review of their forum shows a lot of people frustrated with lack of response to support issues. On top of that, they apparently don’t offer any upgrade path – people on the forum also complain about being unable to purchase an upgrade at any kind of discount whatever.It’s really a shame, as the program could easily be one of the best in this price range, but it seems like they put it out there with a lot of flaws and are leaving their customers dangling in the wind.
I’m going to stick with Computerize Your Assets (CYA), which isn’t as slick or full-featured, but seems solid and still pretty good. (I abandoned the Quicken Home Inventory products – the classic version does not support any kind of attachments and the new version is apparently totally buggy, consistent with much of Intuit’s recent software). CYA has not been updated in quite some time, but at least it works,and you can easily export data out of it into another program down the road.
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Review by The Vulcan for HomeManage Home Inventory Windows Software
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I have been using the trial version for about a week now. There is a learning curve with regards to the original setup for the field names and columns names to fit the user’s choices vs. the default setup. In my case the best feature of this application is the ability to import an existing database. I have nearly 1,000 items in the 20 year old program I am currently using, and none of the home inventory programs I have tried do not provide any method of importing an existing database. I have no desire to re-enter every item, and all of the details of each item of my current database into a new program.
The best part of this program is that you can import any existing database via a spreadsheet created from an exported file of your existing program. My current program exports all data to a .txt file which in turn can be converted by MS Excel to a comma delimited spreadsheet. I saved the spreadsheet as a .txt file, a .csv file, and as an .xls file. This program can import access (.mdb), excel (.xls), and comma delimited text (.csv) files. I tried the .xls file first which worked fine with one exception. The serial number field appears to be formatted as a number only field and when imported would only show serial numbers that did not have any alpha characters in the serial number. So I emailed tech support and I received a reply the next day advising I should try using the .csv file spreadsheet as the import rather than the .xls file. I did as they said and the import worked great, including all of the serial numbers.
This import feature alone is worth the price of this application in my opinion. As the other reviewer wrote, yes there are some bugs, but nothing that I was not able to deal with, and did not cause any problems to the program as a whole. The only thing I have not tried and can not comment on would be the backup and restore process which saves the database in a “zip” file. So based on the low price, and the great import feature, I feel this program deserves 5 stars, but reduced by 1 because of the bugs.