Collmate is a useful software that will give you the opportunity of organize things around the world in a great collection. Millions of people around the globe collect things. Some like coins, others rag dolls, third amass bottle caps. With so much time spent on searching for and trading collectibles, few folks have any energy left for organizing their collections. Hence, things get cluttered, hard to find and finally lost.

It does not have to be this way. Collmate is a software solution that gives any collector willing to invest several minutes a week a simple way to organize collection and track their possessions. Collmate is not collection-specific and can used to track anything from DVDs to Chinese vases. Basically, the program is a database that supports multiple collections.

A person can describe a collectible, attach its photograph, and enter any other information, like status, condition, date of addition, value, brief history and so on. Since all that information can be exported (rtf, html, csv, rtf, xls file formats are supported), information about your collection can then be posted in the Internet for others to see or e-mailed to fellow collectors.

Built-in report generator lets you to create and print reports, item lists and collection catalogs. A free Collmate Report Designer add-on will do the job of designing a report perfectly.

As previously mentioned, Collmate supports multiple collections, so one can split items into logical groups, like US coins, foreign bills, precious metals coins, phased out currencies. Another great feature of the program is its address book (contacts list).

You can enter names, e-mails, phone numbers and other contact information of fellow collectors, traders and dealers here.
The program can automatically display all recent additions to your collection. Big size collections with hundreds and thousands of items can be managed by Collmate too.

With own built in search engine, any item can be found within seconds. The loan manager instantly shows which items are on loan, who borrowed them and when they should be returned.

Here are some key features of "Collmate":

Collmate lets you to store:
· Multiple collections in a single file (a package)
· Unlimited number of collections in a package
· Unlimited number of contacts in a package
· Unlimited number of items and enclosed collections in each collection
· Up to 32 additional customizable item attributes in every single collection
· Up to 4 images for each item
· Rich text description for each item
· Detailed indication of the current status of an item

Collmate lets you to do:
· Organize collections in the tree
· Track the loaned items and those people, who possess them
· Move, copy and duplicate items
· Collect history of an items and contacts
· Search information through collections
· Sort items in collections on any available attribute
· Create list of novelties through all collections
· Create and print reports, item lists and collection catalogs
· Export lists of items to HTML and CSV formats
· Import data from CSV files
· Create and send list of items to the contacts by e-mail

Collmate provides to you with:
· Collection creation wizard
· Copy/Move items wizard
· Report generator wizard
· User report designer
· Predefined and user-defined templates of collections (you can use built-in template manager to manage templates)
· Data encryption and password protection
· Data integrity verification
· Shell integration
· Context help system


Limitations:

· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

New features:
· Automatic backup of collection packages (To adjust backup parameters click Tools -> Options -> Backup.. in main menu).
· Importing list of files or folders to the item description.
· The loan history of item in a report or collection catalog.
Improvements/Changes:
· Dropdown menu for the "Report" tool button has been added.
· An ability to quick open recent generated report in the report designer was added (Tools -> Reports -> Design Recent... or through drop down menu of the "Report" tool button).
· The STRTONUMERIC function has been implemented in report generator. This function tries to extract a numeric value from any given string. See the report generator manual for detailed information.
· The program context help system and the report generator manual has been converted to HTML Help format to be viewed under Microsoft Windows Vista.
Fixed:
· The problem with formatting of contact information has been fixed.
· Minor fixes.