Hello,
We spent three weeks last summer inventorying our Costumes, Set pieces, and Props. There are some really great comprehensive programs out there- and most that are online are going to charge you yearly.
We found a woman with a small program at Costume Inventory Resources.
Www.costumeinventory.comIt worked for us because it is a one time payment. She has everything you need. The program catalogues costumes set pieces and props, you can place pictures- log when something needs repair, assign out to actors and productions, create different rentals.
She also sells barcodes codes in both stick on, and iron on or sew on. She also sells Diddy bags, diddy bag patterns, and costume rack dividers.
We've been really happy, the program glitches sometimes in small ways, and it would be nice to access it from multiple computers- but it lets you download PDFs, and then we place those on our website for people to look through.
Hope this helps,
Cambria
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Cambria Beilstein
Theatre Arts Director
San Juan Capistrano CA
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-09-2019 21:44
From: Jodi Disario
Subject: Costume inventory system
Today, we began the gargantuan task of going through our costume stock. There were about 30 boxes with no logical system to them. We went through and purged stuff that was damaged, etc. We are left with 21 boxes that my kids have inventoried onto a Google Doc. It's useful, but when they categorize something as "ugly red dress" or "vests from Disaster," or even "jeans," it's not going to make the inventory useful to anyone in the future. My hope is to create something that will outlast me. I looked at costumeinventory.com, but their BEAUTIFUL program was Windows only, requiring the purchase of additional software just to get it to run. We are a Mac only district, plus all of the kids' personal devices are iOS.
Is there anything out there that will help to create a detailed file with photos? Something that is easy to update and, in my dream world, export our list into it so that we only have to add details.
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Jodi Disario
Director of Drama
Willow Glen High School
San Jose, CA
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