AssetCenter
Build a reliable register
Tags, serials, purchase details, useful life, condition, warranty and salvage value in one place.
Fixed asset management software
A register that is still right in three years.
One place to answer what you own, who is responsible for it, where it is, and what happened to it — from the day you bought it to the day you write it off.
Free for 25 assets with no time limit · 14-day trials on paid plans
Keep the register accountable after the first inventory
A spreadsheet tells you what existed the last time someone updated it. AssetCenter keeps each item tied to who has it, where it is, what was done to it and what that cost.
Know who has it
Who holds it, where it sits, and every hand it passed through to get there.
Plan cost and replacement
Depreciation by the method you use, net book value, asset age, and the date it is due to be replaced.
Lifecycle record
The number on the register should lead to the whole story.
Purchase, deployment, reassignment, storage, repairs, damage, warranties and decommission all sit on one timeline.
Receipts, photos, manuals, invoices, and other files stay attached to the event they support. The record remains available after an asset is sold, retired, recycled, lost, or otherwise decommissioned.
Learn how to structure an asset register-
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Acquisition
Record price, date, vendor, category, useful life, warranty, documents, and the asset identifier.
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Use and custody
Assign the asset to a person and location while retaining every earlier handoff and storage move.
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Service and condition
Log maintenance, repairs, inspections, damage, costs, notes, files, and upcoming work.
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Retirement and disposal
Capture sale, recycling, loss, salvage, or another decommission event without deleting the history.
Fixed asset reporting
See book-value context and replacement timing without losing the operating record.
A book value is more useful when you can click straight through to the repairs that produced it.
Depreciation
Five depreciation methods
Straight-line, double-declining and 150% declining balance, sum-of-years’ digits, or MACRS, by calendar or fiscal year. See current-year depreciation, accumulated depreciation, and net book value for every asset.
Planning
End-of-life visibility
See asset age and projected end-of-life dates beside current status, person, and location so the replacement list is actionable.
Evidence
Events and cost history
Filter lifecycle events across assets, compare recurring repairs or damage, and export the result to Excel for further review.
Sized for a small business
Built for the company that has outgrown the spreadsheet, not the one running SAP.
Most fixed asset software is priced and shaped for a finance department. If the register is currently one shared file that three people edit and nobody fully trusts, the problem is usually accountability rather than accounting.
What a small business gets here
- A register that survives handoffs, because custody and history stay on the asset
- Depreciation and book value for planning and replacement timing, by straight-line, declining balance, sum-of-years’ digits or MACRS
- Import the existing spreadsheet rather than retyping it
- Free for 25 assets with no time limit, so the first scope costs nothing
What still belongs with your accountant
Filing taxes is a different job from keeping an asset register. AssetCenter’s depreciation report includes MACRS figures from the IRS tables, but it does not apply Section 179 or bonus depreciation, keep separate tax and book records, prepare a tax return, or post journal entries. Keep that work in your accounting software and use the register for what the accounts cannot hold: who has the asset, where it is, and what happened to it. For a one-off estimate, our free depreciation calculator works out a full year-by-year schedule, the Section 179 calculator the first-year deduction, and the capitalization threshold checker which purchases belong on the register at all.
Work out which system a small business actually needsWhere AssetCenter fits in fixed asset management
The asset and its numbers in one place, with depreciation and end-of-life dates worked out for you.
Identity and ownership
Maintain the fixed asset register, category fields, purchase details, documents, condition, current custodian, location, and assignment history.
Lifecycle operations
Record maintenance, repairs, inspections, damage, warranties, costs, custom events, upcoming work, and final disposition.
Planning reports
Review depreciation by straight-line, declining balance, sum-of-years’ digits or MACRS, net book value, asset age, end-of-life dates, asset events, assignments, and location data.
Scope: AssetCenter does the depreciation math and does not replace a general ledger or your tax software. It does not keep multiple books, apply Section 179 or bonus depreciation, or calculate units of production.
Small-team implementation
Start with the decisions the register needs to support.
Import what you already have from Excel, then keep the first rollout to what you can verify: what it is, who has it, where it is, what it cost, and the dates you will actually act on.
- Create categories with their own fields, useful life, and end-of-life rules
- Import assets, people, locations, and subscriptions from Excel
- Use permissions and category restrictions for the people maintaining records
- Filter reports and export the data when finance or operations needs it elsewhere
Fixed asset management software FAQs
It keeps a register of each asset you own, tying what you paid and what it is worth now to who has it, where it is and what has been done to it. Operations and finance work from the same record.
Fixed asset software follows the physical item and what happened to it. Accounting software keeps the ledger and the tax treatment. AssetCenter does the first job and does not replace a general ledger or tax-depreciation system.
AssetCenter calculates straight-line, double-declining balance, 150% declining balance, sum-of-years’ digits and MACRS depreciation, with accumulated depreciation and net book value, in calendar or fiscal years. It does not calculate units of production, apply Section 179 or bonus depreciation, or keep separate tax and book records.
Yes. Import assets, people and locations from the provided Excel templates, validate the rows before processing, and export asset records or supported reports back to Excel when another team needs them.
Build the register and operating process first
Use these guides to define the record, decide when software is justified, and connect fixed assets to a process the team can maintain.
Template and guide
What is an asset register?
Choose the identity, custody, lifecycle, and financial fields that belong in the authoritative record.
Small-business guideFixed asset software for small businesses
Learn when a spreadsheet is still enough and which capabilities matter without enterprise overhead.
Schedule and templateBuild a fixed asset depreciation schedule
Calculate straight-line depreciation, accumulated depreciation, and book value with a worked example and a free Excel template.
Accounting basicsIs equipment a current asset?
Classify operational equipment, resale inventory, expensed purchases, and assets held for sale without confusing their purpose.
Process and checklistBuild an asset disposal process
Approve retirement, protect data, document the handoff, and close the record without erasing its history.
Feature overviewSee everything AssetCenter tracks
Explore timelines, people, locations, subscriptions, reports, scanning, imports, permissions, and alerts.
A fixed asset register your team can keep current.
Bring in your current asset list, confirm who and where each item belongs to, and preserve the lifecycle evidence behind every record.
Free for 25 assets with no time limit · 14-day trials on paid plans