Image and information database/management software

Question

We have a huge variety (~1000) of products of one product line. Each one is different and has it's own unique properties. These include visual ones.

Instead of Excel or a folder with all images, we are looking for a way to capture all images and their properties in one windows application.

Each product consists of one or more images and properties such as (but not limited to), color, size, price, compatibility.

Required functions are (at least)

• Combine and view image with description and properties
• Have custom fields
• Search based on properties (color, size, tag)
• Compare two (or more) products (Not required, but a big plus if). This could also be achieved by having multiple windows of this application next to each other. That wouldn't be a problem.
• Below the € 500 price range.
• Support Windows 7

There are no needs for distributing this data. It's only for referencing.

Answer 1

There is a Product Catalogue template on Simitless. Although the template gives you a basic idea of what your collection can look like, you can always:

• add/remove/change the names of the columns. The way it works is that you get predefined spreadsheet-columns-like fields that you can select from to track/collect only the data you need,
• upload picture/s to each item in your database,
• import and export your data at any time,
• search based on any property you like. Once your app is created, simply go to your app directly (use the URL that is assigned to your app when you build it), click the "+" next to "Filter by", select what to search to then see instant results,
• compare products via multiple windows of the same app,
• it is a web app, so if ever you need to have multiple users connecting to it at the same time, there is no problem with that,
• since it is a web app, it runs on any device, be it a laptop, a tablet, a phone, etc.
• the price depends on the volume of data, the volume of storage and the number of simultaneous connections, but you can do quite a lot with the free tier that includes 10000 data points, 100 MB storage and 3 parallel connections (have a look at the pricing page if you want to know more). With about ~1000 products, I think the price will amount to about 20€/month.

Here is a little screenshot what it looks like with some "dummy data" I input into the template:

This is the data input process:

And picture upload:

Full disclosure: I am part of the startup that designed that platform. We just launched recently, still in beta and working on increasing the number of functionalities of the platform. If you want to try it out and need some help, I can definitely give you a hand.