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What is Collections Management Software?
Collections management software is designed to help organizations maintain accuracy and control over their collections. This type of software provides functionality for cataloging, tracking, managing, preserving, and exhibiting digital and physical collections. It also offers features that allow users to customize reporting functions to suit their specific needs, such as the ability to record detailed information about the items in the collection. Collections management software can be used by museums, galleries, libraries, archives, and other institutions who manage large collections. Compare and read user reviews of the best Collections Management software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Cumulus Retail
Celerant Technology
An eCommerce and retail point of sale system for small businesses that works well and works right. Keep a complete pulse on your business and make downtime a thing of the past with Cumulus’ ‘Always On’ retail point of sale systems. Unlike most retail cloud POS solutions, Cumulus ensures reliability at the point-of-sale should internet connectivity go down, letting you carry on with processing sales and all point-of-sale functions. Operate your store and web as one with cross-channel products, pricing and promotions using Cumulus eCommerce™ an advanced eCommerce and ePOS system solution specifically designed for small-to-mid sized retailers. Easily create and modify products for your retail store and eCommerce site with Cumulus’ advanced product management features, such as vendor catalog imports, tag printing, three-dimensional matrices and more. Track real-time sales data from all channels in a single database using Cumulus’ Customer Relationship Management (CRM).Starting Price: $125 per month -
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Veevart
Veevart
Veevart is a Salesforce-based all-in-one platform for museums and cultural institutions to engage with their audience, optimize their operations saving time, increase efficiency and achieve better results in order to create wildly successful nonprofits and cultural institutions. Veevart is innovation, service, and results for cultural institutions. Some or four features are CRM (visitors, donors, membership management), Fundraising, Ticketing, POS for your Front desk operations, Gift shop application, Rentals management, Collection management, and more features that fit the need for your cultural institution. -
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CatalogIt
It Unlimited
CatalogIt is a powerful, intuitive CMS (Collections Management System) application for museums, collecting organizations, professional conservators and private collectors. CatalogIt allows multiple users to securely catalog and collaboratively manage collections anywhere on any device. As a secure, cloud- and mobile-native subscription SaaS, CatalogIt provides peace of mind that collections information is secured, documented using authoritative controlled vocabularies, protected offsite, and accessible to approved users.Starting Price: $44.99 per month -
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PastPerfect
PastPerfect
We are the world's leader in museum collection and contact management software. Used by over 11,000 museums, PastPerfect is affordable, comprehensive, and easy to use. Designed by museum professionals for museum professionals, PastPerfect offers desktop and cloud‑based software that combines collection and contact management into one easy‑to‑use software package. First released in 1998, PastPerfect has transformed how museums of all sizes catalog collections and manage relationships with members and donors. Contact us to see how PastPerfect can help your organization achieve its goals while saving time and money. Desktop software for all your museum management needs. With PastPerfect 5.0, streamline the acquisition and loan processes, catalog artifacts, produce custom reports and forms, track donations and memberships, create mailings, send emails, and much more. -
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Artwork Archive
Artwork Archive
Artwork Archive provides artists, collectors and organizations powerful tools to manage their artwork, career or collection. Have your critical art information right at your fingertips. Artwork Archive helps you track your inventory, contacts, galleries, sales and more. Tools to look professional and impress clients. Stay on top of key deadlines, track pricing and sales, and generate polished reports with ease. Free up hundreds of hours by creating invoices, inventory lists and labels with a click of a button. Successfully manage your business or collection in half the time. Make your art business stand out and communicate effortlessly with galleries and clients. Make sure the gallery has your information on hand about your artwork so that they can easily get in touch with you about your piece.Starting Price: $8 per month -
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Artfundi
Artfundi
Artfundi is a comprehensive art management software tailored for galleries, enterprises, and studios. With its intuitive functionality and beautiful design outputs, Artfundi helps you maintain professional, responsive client interactions and manage your art business efficiently. The software's capabilities include inventory tracking, client relationship management, and detailed reporting, making it easy to streamline operations and enhance productivity. Artfundi stands out with its user-friendly interface and features that cater to the unique needs of the art industry, ensuring that every interaction is professional and every process is seamless.Starting Price: $99 per month -
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Artscapy
Artscapy
Artscapy offers the World's first Art Account that simplifies the art investing and collecting process for the globe's 50 million collectors, investors and potential buyers deterred by the market’s current frictions and entry barriers. Using technology, we've streamlined the intricate art buying process into a single, cohesive digital ecosystem. At the core of our all-in-one Art Account there is the award winning* inventory management tool with the biggest and safest archival powerhouse in the industry. Moreover Artscapy provides: - curated collection building, - value tracking and data insights, - professional valuations, - insurance, - logistics, - multiple selling options – from private brokerage and P2P trading to auction consignment. *Artscapy has been awarded by TechNation in 2023 as Top 30 Most Innovative Startups in the UK.Starting Price: $18.25 per month -
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Axiell Collections
Axiell
Manage your museum and archive collections from wherever you are with our flexible, intuitive and web-based collections management system. Axiell Collections is simple to use and can be accessed wherever you are, through a browser. The platform is built to industry standards, with robust user permissions to control access to the database. With Axiell Collections: - Catalogue, manage and organize your collection - Easily browse, edit and order hierarchies - Manage your own thesaurus or link to external thesauri - Empower all users with an easy, multi-lingual interface that requires little training to use - Personalize and adapt the platform for your users’ needs - Generate flexible and automated reports Axiell Collections is also supported by a suite of add-on products online exhibitions or collections online, digital asset management, collections moves, and automated workflow management. The platform's open API makes for seamless integrations.Starting Price: Please contact us. -
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Proficio
Re:discovery Software
Proficio Elements is a reputable collection and archives management software solution created by Re:discovery Software. Proficio’s easy to use user interface and powerful features make the job of managing and accessing museum collection records easier and more enjoyable. Proficio Elements delivers intuitive navigation, customizable fields, time-saving tools, Google-like word search, report templates, list view, thumbnails and zoo, data backup tool, and more.Starting Price: $975.00/one-time/user -
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ResourceMate
Jaywil Software Development
ResourceMate is a library automation solution designed to provide comprehensive cataloguing, searching, and circulating of any type of resource. ResourceMate is suitable for different types of organizations, including libraries, schools, places of worship, retirement communities, correctional facilities, museums, government, medical/nursing libraries, as well as nonprofits and associations.Starting Price: $595.00/one-time -
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Art Galleria
Art Galleria
Work less, achieve more. We believe that no matter whether you are a gallerist, an artist or a collector, technology should be there to support you in achieving more with less effort. Discover the comprehensive all-in-one platform for art management, art marketing and sales, and website creation services to help you manage your collections, keep your data organized, and automate and grow your art business. We make it our mission to create an innovative, efficient, easy to use and powerful technology platform to enable you to keep your art organized, nurture your client relationships and save you an astronomical amount of time. With a knowledgeable team of software developers and experts in technology, it’s easy to see why we have emerged as global market leaders in the art industry. Manage your complete artwork inventory, artist profiles, contacts, and easily generate invoices, stylish marketing materials and collection catalogs at the touch of a button.Starting Price: $15 per month -
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eHive
Vernon Systems
eHive is a web-based collection cataloging system. Our system is used worldwide by hundreds of museums, societies, and private collectors to catalog objects, store images, manage acquisition information, and publish their collections online. eHive can be accessed from any computer or device running a web browser, including PCs, Mac, and mobiles. We take care of hosting and backing up your data, so your collection information is both secure and readily accessible. We also perform all of the system upgrades so any enhancements to eHive are made immediately available to you. eHive is a cloud-based, cost-effective option to publish your collection online. Let us take care of the technology. eHive gives simple ways to share your data with popular aggregation sites like Trove (Australia) and Digital NZ. Maintain your branding and present your collection with all the freedom of the WordPress content management system.Starting Price: $99 per year -
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Merces Museum Suite
Adega
Call up all programs and applications in the browser, no more software installation on the workstation computers, resulting in enormous cost savings in IT maintenance and renewal and a high degree of flexibility in the choice of hardware: Windows PC, Apple or Android computer. Data storage and backup, data security and data protection are guaranteed centrally. Ticketing and shop checkout systems as stationary touchscreen computers with barcode scanners, receipt printers and cash drawers or as a tablet system. Ticket printer for color tickets with barcodes, as a voucher or entry ticket, discounts for groups or tour operators. In addition, purchase against invoice or with card payment, everything is fully integrated and can even be used offline in the event of a network failure.Starting Price: $100 per month -
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Collecteurs
Collecteurs
Collecteurs, The Collective Museum of Private Collections, offers free and paid cloud-based art collection management solutions with an easy to use interface as well as a platform for collectors to exhibit their collections and connect with other collectors and galleries. Our Emerging account is free and offers a new alternative to existing art collection management models with a social presence. We also offer a gallery management software, for galleries to share their exhibitions and keep an inventory of artworks in their roster. Gallery accounts are invite-only, but they can request an invite through our pricing page.Starting Price: Free for Collectors, Invite-only for Galleries -
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NetX
NetX
If you're looking for a cost-effective digital asset management (DAM) solution, turn to NetX. Trusted by top organizations such as Nike, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Amazon, Intuit, the Cleveland Clinic and many others, NetX makes managing large libraries of digital files easier. It features a clean modern design, scalable components, powerful search facets and saved searches, asset request forms, grid editor, and more. -
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Argus
Lucidea
Argus by Lucidea is a flexible web-based collections management system platform for museums and galleries. Argus helps heritage institutions stay accessible, visible, and relevant by enhancing curation and offering public portal access to objects and exhibits, thus enriching the experience of both in-person and virtual visitors. The platform also offers mobile access fo museum visitors and staff and integrates with a museum's existing systems and resources. -
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Museum Archive
Museum Archive
Welcome to the Museum Archive software project. Museums, Historical Societies, Schools, Nonprofits, and other groups can now organize their collections without spending valuable resources on collection management database software. The purpose of this project is to provide free quality database software to groups that have limited funds. The software is free. You can support the museum project by spreading the word about the free software. In addition, I am selling a book about the database design, and I am offering a Premium edition copy of the software (free) to all (as of Nov 2018). Sales of the book will hopefully give me the resources to make improvements to the application in the future. -
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Second Canvas
The Mad Pixel Factory
Upload your high resolution images (minimum 24 Mpx) to our platform and our solution will automatically manage to convert them to a navigable format, with zoom on demand, and leave them ready to add the rest of the interactive features. Use our simple and intuitive content manager to add to your images incredible content that will capture and captivate your audience: art cards, storytelling, audiotours, layers, etc. Choose where you want to publish the result, and the platform will take care of generating the appropriate format for it: a widget for your website, a native library that can be embedded it your mobile apps, an object that you can include in your iBooks and digital publications, or even an adapted version to build digital exhibitions! Use our content manager to organize your “enriched” images, select what you want to highlight, and publish them as a native app that is iOS (Apple TV included) and Android compatible.Starting Price: $900.00/year -
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Museum Space
Sirma Enterprise Systems
Museum Space is a turn-key Museum Management Software, specially developed for Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (the so-called GLAM institutions) to support their daily working processes and the preservation and digitization of their cultural treasures. Guided by museum workers and museum IT specialists, we at Sirma, created Museum Space as a web-based product that stores and links documents, images, notes, and legacy materials in a way that fits the way most art institutions work. Museum Space is designed to streamline the activities of conservation, cataloging, restoration and exhibiting, putting the power of digitalization to work for museums, galleries, libraries and private conservators and collectors. -
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Collector Systems
Collector Systems
Collector Systems is the leading cloud-based collection management solution for managing collections of fine art, furniture, jewelry, cars, clothing and wine. Collector Systems provides you with sophisticated tools for easily maintaining standardized records in archives and historical collections, from built-in access to Chenhall's Nomenclature to our forthcoming Digital Asset Management System (DAMS). Modules tailored for the demands of natural history collections empower you to keep all your data organized and accessible, with built-in tools for full and precise taxonomic classification. For fieldwork, research and management, Collector Systems provide the complete cataloging solution for archaeological and ethnological collections.Starting Price: $85 per user per month -
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Maxim
TOR Systems
TOR’s real-time integrated booking and ticketing system is known as “Maxim.” It supports museums, zoos, galleries, theme parks, castles, heritage sites and gardens by providing the very best in ticketing, membership, retail and catering and CRM functionality. Maxim’s core strengths are flexibility, stability, reliability, and speed and ease. Maxim using industry-standard software, and is continuing development to keep up to speed with changing technology. Our development focuses on the specific business needs of you, as our client. Behind the Maxim Solution lies a UK-based business with a wealth of expertise, built up over almost four decades. The team at TOR have knowledge in designing and developing products for attractions of all types, as well as hands-on experience in managing visitor attractions. Our long-standing client relationships, is not just down to the system we provide but most importantly our honest and open approach to partnerships. -
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MuseumPlus
zetcom
MuseumPlus meets the complex needs of museums. Our comprehensive, flexible standard application offers real-time museum management and documents any type of collection and all associated workflows. MuseumPlus offers a high degree of flexibility in defining data fields, modules, forms and reports. The sophisticated interface technology simplifies the exchange of data with other applications. Extensive cataloging, registration and management of all objects in your collection. Central register for internal and external contacts and simple creation of form letters & labels. Digital media can be linked to objects, artists, addresses and other entries. Management of agreements and contracts relating to exhibitions, loans and collections. Additional modules such as event management, archive, etc. can be seamlessly integrated into your MuseumPlus. Coordination of participants, venues and lenders as well as entry and exit protocols. -
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eMuseum
Gallery Systems
eMuseum, by Gallery Systems, is a powerful online collections software for museums and cultural institutions to showcase vibrant, unique collections. By integrating seamlessly with the TMS Suite, an industry-leading platform of collections management software, eMuseum provides fully configurable layouts that users can transform into dynamic digital exhibitions and publish to their public-facing website, intranet, or museum kiosks. Supporting multiple media types and IIIF functionality, and equipped with a flexible API, this versatile software offers limitless ways to display collection objects and bring new interest to an institution’s collections. -
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Collection Harbor
Collection Harbor
Collection management software for museums and private collectors has been stuck in the last century for too long. At Collection Harbor, we listened to museum professionals to build an intuitive web-based CMS that lets you manage your collection efficiently and affordably from any computer. Collection Harbor runs in the cloud, allowing you to securely access and manage your collection from any computer. No more onerous system requirements, expensive onsite installation processes, or manual updates to worry about! Collection Harbor provides unparalleled ease in all aspects of collection management, allowing you to focus your time where it matters. Easy to use reports feature allows user to curate data when making lists, and to print lists using external software. Fast and powerful search feature that allows quick and accurate searching of collection. -
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Collections MOSAiC
Information Services & Technology
Collections MOSAiC is a Collections Management system that is simple enough to use for anyone, affordable enough for everyone, sophisticated enough for the most discerning and flexible enough to suit collections of any size. Fully searchable data, with built-in and user-definable reports and data export functions. Pre-loaded with industry standard validation lists, but fully customizable by yourself. An internet connection is not required, but if available, your collection data can be easily uploaded to the internet for searching by the public (or just your staff). Upload a copy of your data to MOSAiC Online or MOSAiC Web to bring your collection to a wider audience. The MOSAiC Web add-on is included with ALL collections MOSAiC 11 purchases making it even easier to put your collection online. Fully-Functional, FREE Evaluation Packs are available. Our popular Collections MOSAiC collections management system is currently installed at over 650 sites throughout Australasia
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