This collection software looks and operates like Microsoft's Windows Explorer. This makes it easy to learn, since many people are already very familiar with the Windows Explorer. The right pane of the main window is a table, arranged as rows and columns, similar to a spreadsheet. It contains information about the items in your Beanie Baby collection, such as each item's name, the quantity of each item, its value, etc. When creating a new collection, you arrange the columns as you want them.
Categories can contain subcategories, and so on.
The categories that come pre-installed with Collection Explorer are only a starting point, intended to be useful to the average collector. You can add and delete categories as you see fit. Note that Collection Explorer can create and maintain many collections, much like a word processor can create and open many documents. This is useful for households with more than one collector - for example, a parent and child who may wish to track their bean toy collections seperately. Any collections you create with the Collection Explorer demo can still be used when you purchase the full version.