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Inventory Manager

Know what you’ve stocked, where it is and when to check it.

Inventory Manager is a desktop app for household emergency supplies. Give each cupboard, storage box or grab bag its own stock list. When you check your kit, you can see how much water you’ve logged, where the spare batteries are and which supplies are due for replacement.

Inside a sample household inventory

This is an example of how Inventory Manager organises a fictional household’s supplies and reports on expiry dates. Select either screenshot to view it at full size.

Inventory tree with emergency supplies grouped into food and water, power and lighting, and first aid, with a selected item’s details alongside.
Select the bottled water to see how many bottles are on the shelf, their size and the recorded expiry date.
Upcoming expiry report listing sample emergency supplies with storage paths, quantities, expiry dates and status.
The expiry report flags the expired saline pods and shows which supplies are next to expire.

Check your stock and plan what’s due

Check one kit or cupboard at a time, including any boxes stored inside it, or run a report across your whole inventory. Save any report as a PDF to print or share.

  • Items by container gives you a stock list with quantities, item types and storage locations. Print it and tick off what’s packed in your grab bag.
  • Upcoming expiry shows expired supplies first, followed by those closest to expiry. Use the dates you’ve recorded to decide what to rotate or replace first.
  • Upcoming maintenance puts overdue checks at the top. See which torch is due for a test or when you planned to recharge your power bank.

PDF export previews

These cropped previews show what the app exports for the sample household inventory. Select a preview to see the table at full size.

PDF stock list with item names, quantities and storage paths for the sample emergency supplies.
Items by container
PDF expiry report with expired saline pods in red above supplies with later expiry dates.
Upcoming expiry
PDF maintenance report showing an overdue head torch check and an upcoming power bank check.
Upcoming maintenance

What you can do

  • Find supplies by name or location

    Organise supplies the way you store them, with boxes on shelves and kits inside cupboards. Search for an item to see where you put it.

  • Record the details that matter

    Enter quantities and add expiry or maintenance dates where they apply. Create your own item and container types with fields for details such as battery size.

  • Keep instructions with the kit

    Save a packing checklist inside a grab bag’s record, or attach a power bank’s manual to the box where you store it.

  • Check your inventory offline

    Open your inventory on your computer without an account or internet connection. Keep separate inventory files and transfer records using JSON Lines export and import.

Start with an official preparedness checklist

The UK Government’s Be Ready campaign encourages households to check what they already have, build up supplies gradually and review them regularly. Use the guidance for where you live to decide what your household needs. Then use Inventory Manager to record what you stock as you go.

Alongside official guidance, YouTube’s prepping community shares practical ideas for organising supplies and preparing for everyday disruptions.

I’ve included these links for further information only. Inventory Manager has no endorsement from the organisations or creators listed, and Protoworks has no affiliation or sponsorship arrangement with them.

Interested in Inventory Manager?

I’m developing the app now. If you have a question or already have a way of checking your supplies, I’d like to hear what you’d want the app to help with.

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