Equipment Inventory System

[MikeJ]

I'm not sure of any that will do your initial inventory, but most can import you data from other databases.

If you do take the plunge into inventory control, I encourage you to barcode everything that has space for a barcode.

Having inventory control has a ton of benefits, but a main one is letting your gear work more because you know where everything is, and when it is coming back to the shop, so it can go right back out. Including gear trucks and people.

Flex is very well rounded, and in depth if you want it to be.

It can send you staff an email telling them that they are scheduled on a show, what truck to take, and send them a gear list that can even tell you the contents of each road case.

 

[MikeJ]

Bar coding is time consuming, especially if you need to remove a connector to get heat sharing on the cable.

There is 3:1 shrink that will fit over XLR on even socapex, but it is expensive. And it seems to get a little cloudy over time.

I have also used barcodes that have a strip of adhesive-backed clear plastic that wraps around the cable
They are not as tough as heatshrink, but they are not bad.