In Keept, everything starts with an item: your fridge, a laptop, a drill, a van. Each item becomes a record that gathers its details, its proof of purchase, and — above all — its warranty end date. Once the record exists, Keept computes the deadline and warns you before it arrives.
You create items through a four-step wizard. Only the name is required: you can capture an item in ten seconds, or add as much detail as you like.
Step 1 — The essentials
The name is the only required field. Next to it, you can pick a category — Keept seeds five by default when you sign up (Appliances, IT, Furniture, Tools, Other), and you’re free to add your own. Brand and model make items easier to find later, and a serial number field appears when you’re tracking a single unit.
Step 2 — Purchase
The second step gathers everything about the purchase: quantity (1 by default, but you can group a batch of identical items on a single record), purchase price, purchase date, retailer (with suggestions from merchants you’ve used before), and invoice number.
The purchase date matters most: it’s the starting point Keept uses to compute the warranty end date on the next step.
Step 3 — Warranty
This is the heart of Keept. You can enter the warranty two ways, and the two are linked:
In practice: type “2 years” and, because the purchase date is known, the end date fills itself in. Or enter an end date straight from a contract, and Keept works out the duration. You also set the warranty type (manufacturer, retailer, extended, insurance…) and the reminder — how many days before expiry you want to be alerted (30 by default).
If you’re an individual and haven’t entered a duration yet, Keept offers a handy shortcut:
Step 4 — Files (optional)
The final step lets you attach three kinds of documents, each in its own zone:
- Invoice — PDF or image, 15 MB max. It’s the first thing any after-sales service asks for.
- Photos — JPG or PNG, 10 MB max. Handy for the condition at purchase or the rating plate.
- Documents — manuals, certificates… up to 50 MB.
You can add up to three files per kind, and nothing forces you to do it now: everything stays reachable from the record later.
The result
Once you confirm, your item joins the list as a card, with its photo, name, and a status badge computed from the warranty end date.
And that’s it: the record is created, the deadline is computed, the invoice is filed in the right place. On the day something breaks, you won’t be rummaging through drawers — it’s all already there. To understand what those colours mean and how reminders work, read on: Warranty statuses and reminders.