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Help Articles

Getting started with Minvy

A quick guide of how Minvy helps you organize, label, and track your items.

Onboarding: set up your property & categories

Choose a property name and pick the rooms/categories you want to start with.

Onboarding: permissions & adding items

Why Minvy asks for photo permissions and how to add your first items.

Terms & Conditions acceptance

How to review the user agreement and enable acceptance by scrolling to the bottom.

Items: the basics

Learn what an item is, how it’s organized, and where it lives in the app.

Item Detail: viewing and editing an item

Open an item to see images, values, notes, and edit details.

Quick Edit: update title, cost, and value from the list

Swipe right on an item row to quickly update key fields without opening the full item detail.

Categories: rooms and collections

Categories group items (e.g., Kitchen, Garage) and can be customized to match your home.

Labels: what they are and how to use them

Labels help you tag items with extra meaning (e.g., ‘Insurance’, ‘Sell’, ‘High value’).

QR codes in Minvy

Use QR codes to link items to bins, boxes, or locations you want to scan later.

Minvy NFC tags: how they work

Use Minvy NFC tags to quickly pull up a saved manifest by tapping your phone on a tag.

Scan a QR code

Scan a Minvy QR code to view or update its assigned items.

Scan an NFC tag

Tap an NFC tag to view or update its assigned items.

Assign items to a QR code or NFC tag

Select items, then save them to the QR/NFC manifest so you can retrieve them later.

Clear a QR/NFC manifest

Remove all items assigned to a QR code or NFC tag (this can’t be undone).

Share or print a manifest

Export selected items as a PDF to share, print, or save.

Carousel: browse selected items

Open the carousel to swipe through selected items quickly.

Export items to PDF

Create a PDF export of selected items for sharing or record-keeping.

Receipts: import from Gmail

Connect Gmail to import receipt PDFs and attach them to items.

Documents & attachments

Attach PDFs, photos, and documents to items for easy reference.

Search: find items fast

Use search and filters to quickly locate items and narrow results.

Delete an item

Remove an item from your inventory (and what happens to its tags/manifests).

Privacy & security

How Minvy uses your data and what is stored locally vs in the cloud.

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Know what you own

Whether you are insuring your household items or a unique collection, keeping a record of your items ensures a more efficient process with your insurance provider in the event of a claim.

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Insurance and protection

Whether they are natural or not, disasters of one kind or another seem to be regular events in the news. Help protect yourself and your belongings by creating emergency lists to help you better understand what you have and what you need if disaster strikes.

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Moving house

From knowing which box contains what, to the first boxes you want to unpack when you arrive.

Contact Us: support@minvy.ai

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