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NGO assets

Every asset has a custodian, a location, and a movement history

Vehicles, laptops, generators and field equipment — registered, assigned to a named custodian, and tracked through every movement, verification and disposal. The funding grant is a custom field you add rather than a native one, because there is no grant object in the product; the scope section below is specific about what that does and does not give you.

Sound familiar?

If any of these ring true, you are exactly who this was built for.

The register vs reality gap

The asset register was accurate the day it was made. Two office moves later, nobody trusts it.

Donor handover panic

Project closes; the donor wants a signed asset disposition report; assembling it takes a month.

Custody without accountability

A laptop was issued to "the Kisumu office" — not a person. Now it's gone and no one is responsible.

Maintenance by breakdown

Vehicles and generators get attention only when they fail — mid-activity, far from town.

How teams get started

1

Import your register

Existing asset list loaded with grants, values, and locations.

2

Assign custodians

Every portable asset gets a named custodian with a signed issue record.

3

Verify physically

A mobile verification round reconciles the register — and keeps it reconciled.

Questions we are asked here

Frequently asked questions

Can assets be tagged to the donor that funded them?

With a custom field, yes — and it is worth knowing the difference. There is **no grant or donor object** in the product, so an asset has no native funding field. What assets do support is custom fields, so you add one called funding grant and it behaves like any other column: filterable, reportable, exportable, and available on the end-of-project disposition report. What you do not get is referential integrity — it is a label somebody types or picks, nothing validates it against a list of live grants, and nothing stops two people spelling the same donor differently. For most registers that is enough. If your funder requires an auditable link between an asset and a grant record, say so and we will scope it properly rather than let a custom field imply something stronger than it is.

What happens when staff leave?

Custodian clearance shows every asset issued to the person; return is recorded at handover, and unreturned items are visible before the final paycheck, not after.

Do asset checks work in the field?

They run on mobile with condition notes and photos, and they need a connection — verification is not one of the four operations that work offline. Those four are stock transfers, inventory check-out and check-in, and asset movements, so moving an asset between sites works with no signal while confirming it is still there does not. For a round at a site with no coverage, plan it for where there is coverage or expect to complete it on return.

Does it connect to procurement?

Assets can be created from received purchase orders, inheriting supplier, cost, and grant — so the register grows from real transactions instead of manual entry.

Close the register-vs-reality gap

Bring your current asset list and see it become a living register.