Household Register2013 8.00

Household Register is a comprehensive Windows application whose purpose is to help you create and organize the items that you own. It may prove to be quite useful especially if you intend to keep track of your home or business objects and generate an inventory.

User interface

It comprises a bunch of dedicated parameters for helping you tweak the process in detail, so you need to take some time and experiment with the features if you want to make the most out of this utility. Additional information about each function is provided in the help manual.

Storing new items

Household Register gives you the possibility to add a new inventory item by entering general details (e.g. unique number, name, quantity, location, owner, and description), value data (e.g. date when the object was purchased, purchase price, invoice number, payment type, merchant, notes), warranty (e.g. expiration date, extended warranty, notes, phone number), and custom comments. Plus, you may add images from your computer (e.g. JPEG, GIF) and assign documents to the current entry.

Other handy features

The program lets you create an account for accessing the tool by providing information about the name and setting up a master password. By default, the first user is given supervisor privileges and he/she is able to insert additional users and set the access permissions for all users individually.What’s more, you can choose between different preset categories (e.g. Appliances, Dishes, Entertainment, Electronics, Computers) or add your own ones, create a list with people that are responsible for the items in the inventory, schedule the backup process, generate reports (which can be printed or exported to PDF, HTML, XML, or plain text file format), view graphs sorted by location, category or owner, and export data to XLS, HTML, dBase III, dBase IV, or other file format.

Bottom line

All in all, Household Register comes bundled with a handy suite of features but the tool still needs some improvements in the GUI area to make the process more intuitive.