Verified User in Museums and Institutions
AM
Verified User in Museums and Institutions
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Getting Started with CatalogIt"
5/5
What do you like best about CatalogIt?

I have just implemented CatalogIt for an all-volunteer historical society. I'm impressed with its overall layout and features.

Training another volunteer to use CatalogIt was easy. I like that authority control is built into selected fields (author, publisher, etc). The Export feature is intuitive. Batch editing is available for some fields, such as categories and folders.

Customer support is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CatalogIt?

I wish I could designate some fields as required. I also would like to be able to create a form for inputting books that limits the fields available (more than the program limits them). Other than that, I'm happy with the program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Museums and Institutions
AM
Verified User in Museums and Institutions
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Migrating to CatalogIt"
4/5
What do you like best about CatalogIt?

My institution spent about a year researching different museum cataloging softwares before settling on CatalogIt, and I'm so happy that we decided to go with them. The software is fairly intuitive, while also offering pretty robust cataloging hierarchies that allow users to describe deep relationships between different objects and entities. Overall, it has been easy to implement at our site with about 4000 objects (though we're still very much at the beginning of the process) and I could see how it would scale easily, depending on how in-depth you need your catalog to be. The customer support is also absolutely top-notch; they are so responsive and knowledgeable, you get helpful answers within 24 hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CatalogIt?

CatalogIt is definitely built to be applicable for a wide variety of physical collections, including art, botany, and ethnographic collections. Because of this wide reach, there are a lot of cataloging categories that I will never really need to use that crowd the data entry screen a bit. CatalogIt could also improve its archival cataloging capabilities, and I would love to see it grow in this direction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Museums and Institutions
AM
Verified User in Museums and Institutions
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Skyscraper Museum Archive"
5/5
What do you like best about CatalogIt?

Ease of use; great customer support; lots of options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CatalogIt?

Uploading photos through different means results in different UIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
CI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"CatalogIt Review"
5/5
What do you like best about CatalogIt?

CatalogIt is a cloud-based, web, and mobile collections management system. It supports archival and object collections within one system. Conservation can be documented, and reports can be generated. One can create linked exhibitions and publications histories. The system is easy to learn whether you are a beginner or an expert. CatalogIt's customer support is helpful, responsive, and timely. It is among the most comprehensive collections management systems for its price and is a leader among its peers. The collections online HUB feature is exciting, and I am glad it has an API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CatalogIt?

CatalogIt has support for multiple file media file types, offers a light cropping tool and captions for media, but a more mature digital asset management approach would be a future benefit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Museums and Institutions
AM
Verified User in Museums and Institutions
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"CatalogIt has changed our museum!"
5/5
What do you like best about CatalogIt?

Ease of use, implementation of artifact photographs, Web based. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CatalogIt?

Not able to upload sound or video into the program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Museums and Institutions
UM
Verified User in Museums and Institutions
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Catalogit has been a great program for our historical society."
5/5
What do you like best about CatalogIt?

It is easy to learn. The transition from Past Perfect to Catalogit went smoothly. We received excellent customer support. We are able to work more efficiently now. Everyone on staff has been trained and it was painless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CatalogIt?

Past Perfect had very structured search features that allowed for highly specific or focused search queries. However, Catalogit is so much more efficient in every way that it is a feature that we hardly miss. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HF
Hugh F.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Catalog Review"
5/5
What do you like best about CatalogIt?

CatalogIt is very easy to use yet comprehensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CatalogIt?

The search feature could be made better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Museums and Institutions
AM
Verified User in Museums and Institutions
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Yellowstone County Museum"
5/5
What do you like best about CatalogIt?

Very easy to use and has every feature the Museum needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CatalogIt?

I do not think there are any downsides to CatalogIt. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CK
CHELSEY K.
Collections Curator
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great for Museums!"
5/5
What do you like best about CatalogIt?

This program is easy to use, once to watch the tutorials. It gives a lot of "bang" for it's "buck". With cloud services, easy photo uploading, app ability, multiple users and more, the program is completely worth the price. It has saved us a lot of time and energy compared to programs we used prior, and I cannot recommend this program enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CatalogIt?

It is not intuitive where certain things and options are located, however one can watch the tutorials to easily master this program. Otherwise, I would love for their to be more options in laying out the "HUB" or online public part of the software. This HUB allows museums to share their collections to the public, which is great, but there isn't a lot of customization. That would be a great way to upgrade this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Museums and Institutions
AM
Verified User in Museums and Institutions
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"So Glad We Upgraded!"
5/5
What do you like best about CatalogIt?

Having a cloud-based system was ideal for our non-profit Society since we operate four (soon to be five) independent museums. Our collections are scattered throughout these sites and it can be difficult to enter information into a server-based CMS. The ease of use and intuitiveness of CatalogIt has revolutionized our operations. The fields are well thought out, easy to populate and easy to search. We rely on volunteers to enter information, and they have been very complimentary of software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CatalogIt?

There have been a few hiccups with integration with our WordPress site, but the team at CatalogIt have worked with our web developers to solve the issues. We do wish for additional functionality, but these changes are in process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.