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Collection management — values, loans and locations.

WrkLst provides collections with one precise record of every work — its prices, valuations, insurance, condition and documents. Collection Values totals what the whole collection, or any filter of it, cost, is estimated at and is insured for, in one currency.
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Collection Values. The works and the figures are fictional — Mary Painter, Nina Sculptor, Otto Etcher — never a client’s.
Collection Values

What it cost, what it is worth, what it is insured for — in one currency.

Collection Values is the sheet a private collection needs most: every work with what it cost, what it is estimated at and what it is insured for, and above the rows — pinned as you scroll — the three totals for everything you have filtered. Filter by artist, location, year or any other field, and the totals follow. Whatever the currencies the works were bought and insured in, the totals are converted into yours.

A work’s figures are edited straight from its line, and each insurance value keeps its date, currency and note, so the sheet always counts the current one. The same three totals for the whole collection sit on the Reports page. Both are behind the values permission: an advisor or a family member who may not see figures sees no totals either.

  • Acquisition
  • Estimated
  • Insured
  • Any filter
  • Converted into your currency
  • Edit from the row
  • Values permission
Every value on the work record
Works

A complete record for every work.

Easily manage every work in one precise record: several prices, each with its currency and date; insurance values with their own currency, date and notes; the acquisition price; condition notes; and the documents that belong to it — the acquisition price and insurance values behind a permission of their own. Built on decades of experience with galleries, museums, artists and collections, WrkLst gives you a professional and comprehensive overview of everything you own.

Every edit is kept in the change history — ‘What changed’ shows the old value and the new one side by side — and a record deleted by mistake can be recovered within seven days.

“As a young collector, WrkLst offers everything I need from an inventory software at the tips of my fingers.”
Konstantin H. · Strategist, Editor, DesignerA real review from one of our customers on Capterra· 2025
  • Acquisition price
  • Valuations
  • Insurance values
  • Condition
  • Documents
  • Location & shelf
  • Change history
See the Works module
WrkLst 10, with fictional works and people
Loans & locations

Loans and locations, always current

Easily manage every loan as an outgoing consignment: attach its documents, track its dates, and receive an email and in-app notification before the work is due back. While it is away, the record shows the work as unavailable, and the calendar view gives you a comprehensive overview of what is out now and what comes back next.

Every work also carries its location and shelf, so you can filter the collection by where the works are. The shipment that moved them — with customs paperwork and real-time FedEx, DHL and UPS tracking — is linked to the record.

Follow a loan request as a lead — Requested, Approved, Signed — with the works it asks for, and an acquisition from In review to Acquired.

  • Loans out
  • Due-back notices
  • Calendar view
  • Location & shelf
  • Shipments
  • Customs paperwork
See consignments and shipments
View in Room

Every artwork at true scale

Easily preview any work in a room at its real dimensions before it leaves storage. On iPhone, iPad and Android, place it at true size on your wall or floor through the camera, helping you decide where a work belongs before it is moved.

Add a 3D model of a sculpture — a GLB or USDZ file, for example from an iPhone scan — and View in Room and AR show the real object instead of a box, on the wall or on the floor. If a file is not at the right size, WrkLst suggests fitting it to the work’s dimensions.

  • View in Room
  • AR on iPhone, iPad & Android
  • Your own 3D models
  • GLB & USDZ
  • True dimensions
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173 × 122 × 5 cm · drag to look around

#AK1105

Mary Painter

The Long Afternoon

Oil on canvas

173 × 122 × 5 cm

Flat, so it hangs — centred at eye level, the way it would be hung.

Who sees what

Advisors and family see only what you allow

Roles and permissions decide it, field by field. An advisor can browse the collection without the prices, and a family member or a curator can have a captions-only role that shows the works and nothing else. The acquisition price and the insurance values sit behind a permission of their own.

Sync the address book with the contacts app on your phone, subscribe your calendar to loans out and in — appointment titles never carry an amount — and follow every request to the account in the interaction log, by day, channel and user.

“Turns collection management data entry into a relaxing dare I even say enjoyable experience.”
Anna H. · Art adviserA real review from one of our customers on Capterra· 2018
  • Roles & permissions
  • Acquisition price permission
  • Captions-only role
  • Contacts on your phone
  • Calendar feed
  • Interaction log
Security & data
Everything in between

More for the collection.

  1. Finance

    Insurance reports

    Record every insurance value with its currency, date and note, and generate the sheet for your broker from your own template as Word, Excel, CSV or PDF.

  2. Conservation

    Condition notes

    Keep condition notes on the record and generate condition reports from your own templates on your letterhead, before a work goes out and when it comes back.

  3. Presentations

    Presentations by private link

    Share images and captions, with or without prices, with an advisor or an insurer through a private link that expires.

  4. Apps

    Mobile apps

    Browse and present works, exhibitions and lists in native iOS and Android apps for phones and tablets, even when offline.

  5. Archive

    Exhibition and loan history

    See every exhibition a work was in and every loan it went on, directly on its record and linked to the documents and installation images.

  6. Languages

    Sixteen languages

    Use the whole interface in sixteen languages, so a registrar in one country and an advisor in another read the same archive.

Full list of all modules
Independent & privacy-first

Your collection, your data — hosted in Europe, exportable any time.

WrkLst is an independent company with no external interests, hosted in Europe — on Hetzner servers in Germany, with redundant infrastructure in Finland and Switzerland. Hosted in Europe says how your data is protected, not where you may work from: WrkLst is used around the world, and the GDPR covers what you entrust to us wherever you are.

We firmly believe that the data you enter into WrkLst belongs to you. Your entire database can be downloaded as one complete file (SQL dump) whenever you like — every record, in a standard format any database specialist can open — and every image and document you put in, complete and at full resolution.

Who uses it

What WrkLst customers say.

“WrkLst has transformed how I engage with my collection. Having everything at my fingertips makes it easy to browse, share, and develop new projects wherever I am.”
Konstantin HaubrokKonstantin Haubrok

Collector and Curator

“WrkLst is an affordable must-have for artists and collectors. It keeps my contacts and inventory organized, integrates seamlessly with Mailchimp and my website, and looks great doing it.”
Mieke MarpleMieke Marple

Artist, Writer, Art & Tech Consultant

Frequently asked questions

Ready to manage your collection?

Start a free trial today and explore how you can optimize your workflows with WrkLst — or book a demo with the people who built it. We specialize in data migration, so your existing records come across without the need for manual entry. Feel free to reach out, we’re here to help.
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