Home Contents Inventory 

Every year millions of people suffer loss or damge to their posessions.  Home Contents Inventory is the tool that will take notice of all of your possesions. Home Contents Inventory will help capture all of the relevant information about objects that you own.  Track cost and appraised values. 

Should a loss occur this information will prove invaluable to the police and to your insurer. 

Good records speed up settlement of a potential claim. 

Use Home Contents Inventory to compile a room-by-room inventory of your possesions, including manufacturer's names, dates of purchase, where purchased, and costs.  Note appraised values where applicable.  Reference receipts or proofs of purchase, particularly for major appliances, note serial numbers and identifying marks.  

Create your home contents census before a loss or damage.  Know what you have and know it's worth, everyone will benefit by using this application. 


Unfiled Items Screen

This screen is both your general repository of items inventoried and also contains your main item navigation buttons and pickers.

It really is easy.

Buttons: 		
i 		
	About	for application information

	Help	use this at any time when your working

	Prefs	displays version number and you can enter your default insurance carrier and policy number

	News & Info	information about other n-Abled Solutions
New enter new items bringing you to the Home Contents Inventory - New Items input screen 

uSort		select the order of your inventoried items that you want to see

Find	opens to the Find Item dialogue
	uSearch Key:	Item enter an item name or part of a name and tap 
		Cost and Appraised Value - Select and define the value range as Less Than, More Than or Around to help in your search
		Appraised Value - Select and define the value range as Less Than, More Than or Around to help in your search

uCndtn (Condition) 		 add condition content to any or all items Lost, Stolen", Damaged, Sold, Gifted, Tossed or Recovered

Summary		Displays total number of items, Total Purchase Cost and Total Current Value.

File		create a New Folder, edit a Folder name or move an item to another folder.

Action		Select an item(s) manually or with uSelect to print or fax your Home Contents Inventory.  This button also allows you to delete items from your inventory list.

X		tap this to close a window or close an application.  (THIS IS NOT A SAVE BUTTON)


Reading the Content		

ITEM		the item's name

AQDATE		Acquisition Date - when you got this item

SOURCE		Where you got the item

LOC		Location - Where the item is located

CAT		Category - how the item is grouped


tap i button and you can select:
			About for application information
			Help which youve already found
			Prefs displays version number and you can enter your default insurance carrier and policy number
			News & Info for information about other n-Abled Solutions

tap New to enter new items bringing you to the Home Contents Inventory - New Items input screen 

tap uSort and select the order of your inventoried items that you want.  Sort by Item, by Acquisition Date (e.g. date of purchase), by Location (e.g. where the item is actually located) or by Category (by common groupings e.g. Antiques or by detailed categories that youve determined e.g. Georgian Period Antiques)

tap Find  which opens to the Find Item dialogue:
	use the uSearch Key: to find by 
				selecting Item  enter an item name or part of a name and tap Find all of the information of the found item will appear.  If there are more that one item you will see a list of those found.  Highlight and the detail will appear.
				selecting Cost and Appraised Value are truly unique.  Select either of these and define the value range as Less Than, "More Than or Around to help in your search.  Around is a value that is + or - 10% of the value that you enter.  Enter a value, tap find.  

uCndtn (Condition)  here you need to have selected an item or items on your list of items by checking the box to the left of each inventoried item first.  tap uCndtn  and you can add condition content to any or all items Lost, Stolen", Damaged, Sold, Gifted, Tossed or Recovered  Follow the prompts in the Item Condition dialogues and tap Add to include the conditional information to an item(s).


	* Suggestion - create separate folders to contain some conditional items e.g. sold items or lost items

tap Summary to open the Totals Summary dialogue - you select uFolder to display the number of items in a folder or all items in your inventory.  It also states the Total Purchase Cost value (the amount that you paid) and the Total Current Value which represents a combination of the amount paid and the appraised value (appraised values where included replaces the paid value in this computation).

The next three buttons are standard Newton.

		File Icon - you can create a New Folder, edit a Folder name or if you have selected an item(s) you can move it to another folder.

		Action button - Select an item or items manually or with uSelect that sits above the i and tap this action button to Print or Fax your Home Contents Inventory .  This action button also allows you to delete items from you inventory list.

		X  tap this to close a window or close an application.
*Remember X closes but does not SAVE.  SELECT SAVE WHEN YOU WANT TO SAVE.

Now for the Content

This is an item by item list displaying ITEM the item name, AQDATE (Acquisition date), SOURCE (Where you got the item), CAT (Category - how the items is grouped e.g. Jewelry) and LOC (Location - where the item is).  

To view the detail of an item just tap the item content and the item detail will be displayed.

Note the open box to the left of each item.  
Check these boxes to select an action.  File a folder, Print, Fax or Delete.

Use the up and down arrows (right side mid screen) to scroll through your Home Contents Inventory.  Black arrows mean that you can scroll in that direction to see more items in your list.

The number displayed in the lower right corner of this screen represents the total number of items contained in the folder displayed.

*Note the black field at the top of this screen it displays your name (owner of the Newton) and address, date and time.

*Whenever you see u tap it and it will open to additional choices that can be selected.



Home Contents Inventory - New Product and Detail Screens

This screen is where you enter or review all of the information about an item in your inventory. 

Each entry area is either a fill in, where you can handwrite the requested content, or a picker u with pre selected choices.
 
In some of the pickers (u) by selecting Other . . . you can even add the designators that work best for you. 
Example - in location we offer generic names of rooms in a house - you can add more suitable names, remove our suggestions or even rename ours..  		Select Other . . . and the Other Item  dialogue window opens.  Either select from the list and rename the selected item in LocName tap the uOperation button and make a choice to Add your new entry, Remove the selected location or Replace the selected location with your new entry.  After which close this dialogue X to continue.

Item	
Item: 		enter the name of the item 
Serial#:		enter a serial number or registration number
uAquisition Date:		Thats the date when you puchased or got the item
uSource:		select or create a New name of the place or person where you got the item (this picker stores the name address etc. in the Names address book in the Newton for ease of use.)
uQuality:		select the descriptor that best describes the quality of this item
uLocation:		identify the location of the item
uCategory:		identify the group that best describes the kind of item

Value	
Purchase Price:		enter the price that you paid for the item
uOrigin:	select how the item was obtained
uReceipt:	select Yes or No
uAppraised Value:	enter the appraised value
uAppraisal Date:	enter the date of your appraisal
u Appraiser:	select or create a New name of your appraiser (this picker stores the name address etc in the Names address book in the Newton for ease of use.)

Item description	
Item description:	Hand enter the items decription with identifiers here

Insurance	
u Insured:	This defaults to Yes and displays the insurance information that you entered in Prefs.  Selecting No erases the insurer information for this item only.
uInsurer:	By default this displays the insurer that you entered in Prefs you can change the insurer information here at any time for the item that you are working on
uPolicy #:	By default this displays the Policy # that you entered in Prefs you can change this information here at any time for the item that you are working on

Conditions	
Conditions:	This is a summary list of all conditions that you may have entered for this item.  Highlight a date and condition in this list to see the detail of that condition.


This is a limited use limited entry demonstration version of Home Contents Inventory created by n-Abled Solutions.  

To get your fully operable version of Home Contents Inventory call us at 908 766 4043, today!


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